Robin Hutchinson
@robin-hutchinson.bsky.social
Entomologist and Data Support at the Biological Records Centre @ukceh.bsky.social
PhD student @uniexecec.bsky.social focusing on under-recorded insects
Gender Policy Officer at ALDER, the LGBTQIA+ Network @britishecolsoc.bsky.social
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PhD student @uniexecec.bsky.social focusing on under-recorded insects
Gender Policy Officer at ALDER, the LGBTQIA+ Network @britishecolsoc.bsky.social
They/them
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An unexpected outage for iRecord and other Indicia systems this weekend means that you won't be able to add records to the websites. It is still possible to add records to the iRecord apps, but you won't be able to upload them until this is fixed 😞
November 8, 2025 at 9:50 PM
An unexpected outage for iRecord and other Indicia systems this weekend means that you won't be able to add records to the websites. It is still possible to add records to the iRecord apps, but you won't be able to upload them until this is fixed 😞
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More Mapping the UK's Flat Flies Project results published today with Adrian Smith & @sheldonbirds.bsky.social 212 host-parasite interactions, including 70 not previously reported, & a recent switch to gulls by some Louse Flies, Hippoboscidae. @btobirds.bsky.social @dipteristsforum.bsky.social
Citizen science reveals host‐switching in louse flies and keds (Diptera: Hippoboscidae) during a period of anthropogenic change
A study of louse flies in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man, and Ireland found 212 different interactions between Hippoboscidae and their hosts, of which 70 were previously unrecorded. No louse flies ...
doi.org
November 1, 2025 at 2:42 PM
More Mapping the UK's Flat Flies Project results published today with Adrian Smith & @sheldonbirds.bsky.social 212 host-parasite interactions, including 70 not previously reported, & a recent switch to gulls by some Louse Flies, Hippoboscidae. @btobirds.bsky.social @dipteristsforum.bsky.social
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📣 Read the latest UKCEH Biological Records Centre newsletter for updates on national recording schemes, wildlife recording practices, new tech & more!
🔗 Get the new edition, past issues or subscribe here: buff.ly/aJJ9LaY
#wildlife #BiologicalRecording @jncc.bsky.social
🔗 Get the new edition, past issues or subscribe here: buff.ly/aJJ9LaY
#wildlife #BiologicalRecording @jncc.bsky.social
October 19, 2025 at 7:11 AM
📣 Read the latest UKCEH Biological Records Centre newsletter for updates on national recording schemes, wildlife recording practices, new tech & more!
🔗 Get the new edition, past issues or subscribe here: buff.ly/aJJ9LaY
#wildlife #BiologicalRecording @jncc.bsky.social
🔗 Get the new edition, past issues or subscribe here: buff.ly/aJJ9LaY
#wildlife #BiologicalRecording @jncc.bsky.social
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Have you seen lots of ladybirds flying around? Maybe some have come into your house?
At this time of year, ladybirds are moving around looking for a good place to spend the winter. On warmer, sunny days, large numbers may be seen flying in search of a suitable habitat 🐞
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At this time of year, ladybirds are moving around looking for a good place to spend the winter. On warmer, sunny days, large numbers may be seen flying in search of a suitable habitat 🐞
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October 7, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Have you seen lots of ladybirds flying around? Maybe some have come into your house?
At this time of year, ladybirds are moving around looking for a good place to spend the winter. On warmer, sunny days, large numbers may be seen flying in search of a suitable habitat 🐞
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At this time of year, ladybirds are moving around looking for a good place to spend the winter. On warmer, sunny days, large numbers may be seen flying in search of a suitable habitat 🐞
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Great opportunity to present @pomscheme.bsky.social collaborative research with @sangerinstitute.bsky.social at #BGEconnects. DNA-based transformation will only be possible with continued national-scale sampling, curated archives, data infrastructure and collaboration with taxonomists.
♨️Live #BGEconnects
@clairecarvell.bsky.social and @marakat.bsky.social talked about DNAbarcoding for large-scale #insect community biomonitoring: “DNA-based species discovery can indeed transform taxonomic uncertainty from a barrier into a structured pathway for improved biodiversity intelligence.”
@clairecarvell.bsky.social and @marakat.bsky.social talked about DNAbarcoding for large-scale #insect community biomonitoring: “DNA-based species discovery can indeed transform taxonomic uncertainty from a barrier into a structured pathway for improved biodiversity intelligence.”
September 30, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Great opportunity to present @pomscheme.bsky.social collaborative research with @sangerinstitute.bsky.social at #BGEconnects. DNA-based transformation will only be possible with continued national-scale sampling, curated archives, data infrastructure and collaboration with taxonomists.
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Dark taxa are extremely diverse organisms that remain largely undescribed due to small size, subtle differences, & few experts.
Take this quiz to find out what you are - I'm a gall midge! whatdarktaxonareyou.static.domains/insect-quiz....
by @vivianfeng.bsky.social & @flyliceresearch.bsky.social
Take this quiz to find out what you are - I'm a gall midge! whatdarktaxonareyou.static.domains/insect-quiz....
by @vivianfeng.bsky.social & @flyliceresearch.bsky.social
September 23, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Dark taxa are extremely diverse organisms that remain largely undescribed due to small size, subtle differences, & few experts.
Take this quiz to find out what you are - I'm a gall midge! whatdarktaxonareyou.static.domains/insect-quiz....
by @vivianfeng.bsky.social & @flyliceresearch.bsky.social
Take this quiz to find out what you are - I'm a gall midge! whatdarktaxonareyou.static.domains/insect-quiz....
by @vivianfeng.bsky.social & @flyliceresearch.bsky.social
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#Ento25 our workshop: how to use taxonomic keys had a lot of enthusiasm, ‘some’ frustration #whatisit but with genuine engagement. Featuring test keys: Orthoptera & Dermaptera & of course Carabidae handbook with www.royensoc.co.uk/publications... with specimens from www.nhm.ac.uk/take-part/ce...
September 11, 2025 at 7:31 PM
#Ento25 our workshop: how to use taxonomic keys had a lot of enthusiasm, ‘some’ frustration #whatisit but with genuine engagement. Featuring test keys: Orthoptera & Dermaptera & of course Carabidae handbook with www.royensoc.co.uk/publications... with specimens from www.nhm.ac.uk/take-part/ce...
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The latest PoMS e-news went out yesterday, with updates on FIT Counts in 2025; news of a new UK butterfly; research on plants for pollinators; PoMS local projects; & some great forthcoming events. If you missed it you can read it at mailchi.mp/e73193cb8054... & subscribe at ukpoms.org.uk/subscribe
August 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
The latest PoMS e-news went out yesterday, with updates on FIT Counts in 2025; news of a new UK butterfly; research on plants for pollinators; PoMS local projects; & some great forthcoming events. If you missed it you can read it at mailchi.mp/e73193cb8054... & subscribe at ukpoms.org.uk/subscribe
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🍄Microfungi on insects🍄
Fungi in the genus Hesperomyces are associated exclusively with ladybirds, visible as yellowish-greenish elongated balloons. We aim to map them in Europe and describe #newspecies. Join the #FunDive campaign! #Biodiversa fun-dive.eu/en/get-invol...
Fungi in the genus Hesperomyces are associated exclusively with ladybirds, visible as yellowish-greenish elongated balloons. We aim to map them in Europe and describe #newspecies. Join the #FunDive campaign! #Biodiversa fun-dive.eu/en/get-invol...
August 13, 2025 at 8:29 AM
🍄Microfungi on insects🍄
Fungi in the genus Hesperomyces are associated exclusively with ladybirds, visible as yellowish-greenish elongated balloons. We aim to map them in Europe and describe #newspecies. Join the #FunDive campaign! #Biodiversa fun-dive.eu/en/get-invol...
Fungi in the genus Hesperomyces are associated exclusively with ladybirds, visible as yellowish-greenish elongated balloons. We aim to map them in Europe and describe #newspecies. Join the #FunDive campaign! #Biodiversa fun-dive.eu/en/get-invol...
Exciting visit from a Ruby-tailed wasp during my @pomscheme.bsky.social lunchtime FIT Count!
June 25, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Exciting visit from a Ruby-tailed wasp during my @pomscheme.bsky.social lunchtime FIT Count!
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A stunning celebration of Scottish hoverflies from @scottshanks.bsky.social 😊👏#InsectWeek @royentsoc.bsky.social
Hoverflies🪰 are some of our most frequent & important pollinators. We have approx 280 species in the UK. Different species utilise a wide variety of habitat niches with wildly different larval strategies from aphid predators to rot-hole filter feeders.
🌸🪰🌼🪰 #insectweek @dipteristsforum.bsky.social
🌸🪰🌼🪰 #insectweek @dipteristsforum.bsky.social
June 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM
A stunning celebration of Scottish hoverflies from @scottshanks.bsky.social 😊👏#InsectWeek @royentsoc.bsky.social
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As @royentsoc.bsky.social #InsectWeek begins, we’re excited to share the latest @pomscheme.bsky.social annual report 🐝🪰🪲
Explore this year’s findings and help us welcome The RHS as a new PoMS partner! 👏🏼
Planting a variety of flowers and creating diverse habitats is key for pollinators 🌼
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Explore this year’s findings and help us welcome The RHS as a new PoMS partner! 👏🏼
Planting a variety of flowers and creating diverse habitats is key for pollinators 🌼
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June 23, 2025 at 9:32 AM
As @royentsoc.bsky.social #InsectWeek begins, we’re excited to share the latest @pomscheme.bsky.social annual report 🐝🪰🪲
Explore this year’s findings and help us welcome The RHS as a new PoMS partner! 👏🏼
Planting a variety of flowers and creating diverse habitats is key for pollinators 🌼
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Explore this year’s findings and help us welcome The RHS as a new PoMS partner! 👏🏼
Planting a variety of flowers and creating diverse habitats is key for pollinators 🌼
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The sun is shining for #FITcounts this weekend! On Sunday @pomscheme.bsky.social team enjoyed introducing families to the insect life on our community meadow, as part of The Springline Project @chilternsnl.bsky.social #MendtheGap We’d love to hear of other community events where you are 🐝☀️
June 13, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The sun is shining for #FITcounts this weekend! On Sunday @pomscheme.bsky.social team enjoyed introducing families to the insect life on our community meadow, as part of The Springline Project @chilternsnl.bsky.social #MendtheGap We’d love to hear of other community events where you are 🐝☀️
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A nonconformist upwards-facing Downlooker Snipefly 😂 @uk-soldierflies.bsky.social
May 21, 2025 at 10:07 PM
A nonconformist upwards-facing Downlooker Snipefly 😂 @uk-soldierflies.bsky.social
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It is such a pleasure to be with you all - I am having a wonderful time immersed in the worlds of entomology and mycology (a perfect pair) during this fabulous workshop on cryptic fungi - thank you so much for inviting me @ukceh.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk
60% of global extinctions have been caused, solely or in part, by invasive alien species—a staggering statistic from @ukladybirds.bsky.social's talk about leveraging #citizenscience data to tackle biological invasions. Part of our #VisegradFund #C4inV4 workshop in České Budějovice.
May 19, 2025 at 8:19 PM
It is such a pleasure to be with you all - I am having a wonderful time immersed in the worlds of entomology and mycology (a perfect pair) during this fabulous workshop on cryptic fungi - thank you so much for inviting me @ukceh.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk
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Ladybird lab at the Cryptic Fungi workshop going swimmingly! We were looking for Hesperomyces, a small fungus on ladybirds we caught yesterday. #VisegradFund #TeamLaboul
May 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Ladybird lab at the Cryptic Fungi workshop going swimmingly! We were looking for Hesperomyces, a small fungus on ladybirds we caught yesterday. #VisegradFund #TeamLaboul
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NEW PAPER from the GLiTRS team! 🎉
We review how best to use different types of evidence to better understand global insect declines 🦗🪳🪲🦋🐛🐜
"Integrating multiple evidence streams to understand insect biodiversity change" published in @science.org
🔗 tinyurl.com/mr35bdaa
A summary 🧵 below (1/7)
We review how best to use different types of evidence to better understand global insect declines 🦗🪳🪲🦋🐛🐜
"Integrating multiple evidence streams to understand insect biodiversity change" published in @science.org
🔗 tinyurl.com/mr35bdaa
A summary 🧵 below (1/7)
www.science.org
April 4, 2025 at 9:57 AM
NEW PAPER from the GLiTRS team! 🎉
We review how best to use different types of evidence to better understand global insect declines 🦗🪳🪲🦋🐛🐜
"Integrating multiple evidence streams to understand insect biodiversity change" published in @science.org
🔗 tinyurl.com/mr35bdaa
A summary 🧵 below (1/7)
We review how best to use different types of evidence to better understand global insect declines 🦗🪳🪲🦋🐛🐜
"Integrating multiple evidence streams to understand insect biodiversity change" published in @science.org
🔗 tinyurl.com/mr35bdaa
A summary 🧵 below (1/7)
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Dr Miranda Bane (UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology) explains how a quick 10-minute FIT Count survey can help monitor pollinators and contribute to vital research.
Monitoring Pollinators with FIT Counts
Dr Miranda Bane (UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology) explains how a quick 10-minute FIT Count survey can help monitor pollinators and contribute to vital research.
biologicalrecording.co.uk
April 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Dr Miranda Bane (UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology) explains how a quick 10-minute FIT Count survey can help monitor pollinators and contribute to vital research.
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The @ukceh.bsky.social PoMS team enjoyed their first FIT Counts of 2025 during the sunshine at lunchtime today! Great to be back in action again, look forward to seeing everyone's results during the coming months.
April 1, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The @ukceh.bsky.social PoMS team enjoyed their first FIT Counts of 2025 during the sunshine at lunchtime today! Great to be back in action again, look forward to seeing everyone's results during the coming months.
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Common Mourning Bee (Melecta albifrons) visits Princes Risborough library in the hope of borrowing a Hairy-footed Flower-bee nest 🤣 (the mourning bees are parasites of the flower bees)
April 1, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Common Mourning Bee (Melecta albifrons) visits Princes Risborough library in the hope of borrowing a Hairy-footed Flower-bee nest 🤣 (the mourning bees are parasites of the flower bees)
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Send me records: I am excited to be taking on the role of national springtail recorder. I have huge shoes to fill, but I hope to continue the progress Peter Shaw made in understanding the taxonomy and biology of the UK's #springtails.
www.brc.ac.uk/scheme/colle...
www.brc.ac.uk/scheme/colle...
January 21, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Send me records: I am excited to be taking on the role of national springtail recorder. I have huge shoes to fill, but I hope to continue the progress Peter Shaw made in understanding the taxonomy and biology of the UK's #springtails.
www.brc.ac.uk/scheme/colle...
www.brc.ac.uk/scheme/colle...
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Many thanks to @neilmoths.bsky.social for compiling an excellent ID guide to nocturnal ichneumon #wasps and making it available via the Buckinghamshire Invertebrate Group website sites.google.com/site/bucksin... #MothTrapIntruders
January 11, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Many thanks to @neilmoths.bsky.social for compiling an excellent ID guide to nocturnal ichneumon #wasps and making it available via the Buckinghamshire Invertebrate Group website sites.google.com/site/bucksin... #MothTrapIntruders
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Still a couple of weeks left to apply for this #PhD. How are pollinating #insects changing in the UK? This project will develop indicators for #pollinators using #citizenscience data. A collaboration between @ukceh.bsky.social, University of Reading and JNCC. tinyurl.com/3ve5szrh
Looking for a #PhDposition? Passionate about #pollinators and #citizenscience? Come do a PhD at @ukceh.bsky.social on developing indicators for pollinating insects using data from UK PoMS. The project includes a placement at JNCC. To apply tinyurl.com/3ve5szrh
@drnickisaac.bsky.social
@drnickisaac.bsky.social
CR2025_21: Developing metrics of change for pollinating insects in the UK at University of Reading on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - CR2025_21: Developing metrics of change for pollinating insects in the UK at University of Reading, listed on FindAPhD.com
tinyurl.com
January 7, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Still a couple of weeks left to apply for this #PhD. How are pollinating #insects changing in the UK? This project will develop indicators for #pollinators using #citizenscience data. A collaboration between @ukceh.bsky.social, University of Reading and JNCC. tinyurl.com/3ve5szrh
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🏵️🐝🦋 Our presenters got knee-deep in flowers earlier this year to hear which plants attract the most pollinators – those vital bees, butterflies, wasps, beetles, flies and moths – and why!
Catch up with the buzz: https://buff.ly/4caMt0S
#CountingTheEarth #12DaysOfChristmas
Catch up with the buzz: https://buff.ly/4caMt0S
#CountingTheEarth #12DaysOfChristmas
December 31, 2024 at 10:47 AM
🏵️🐝🦋 Our presenters got knee-deep in flowers earlier this year to hear which plants attract the most pollinators – those vital bees, butterflies, wasps, beetles, flies and moths – and why!
Catch up with the buzz: https://buff.ly/4caMt0S
#CountingTheEarth #12DaysOfChristmas
Catch up with the buzz: https://buff.ly/4caMt0S
#CountingTheEarth #12DaysOfChristmas
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The more we know about Cecids the more amazing they turn out to be!
Hard to capture with a phone, but one of my very favorite things is the way some gall midges (Cecidomyiidae) like to hang by their front legs from spider webs.
December 31, 2024 at 2:43 PM
The more we know about Cecids the more amazing they turn out to be!