Vikki Rose
vikkirose56.bsky.social
Vikki Rose
@vikkirose56.bsky.social
Ecologist & botanist studying moths, butterflies (lepidoptera) & hedges. #teammoth 🐛🦋
Many tardi in Glasgow which was fab!
September 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Look what I found in our back garden - Brown argus! 🦋👍
July 10, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Common spotted Orchid from today
June 9, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Lovely day out at the Women in Entomology day at College Lake and the leps were out in numbers and I got a green hairstreak photo 😃
May 11, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Getting there on the beaded fish... Still need to fix it to its final destination once the beading is done...
March 9, 2025 at 7:16 PM
First butterfly of 2025 today, Red admiral (no pic, this one from last summer). Roll on Spring!!!!
February 26, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Its nearly March, which means its nearly BEEFLY TIME!

Here's a shot of one "Twerking" as @flygirlnhm.bsky.social put it, rubbing the eggs at the end of her abdomen on the ground so they get coated in sand grains. to gives them some ballast so she can fling them into solitary bee burrows!
February 26, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Please sign and share the Parliamentary petition to protect #sphagnum and natural #CarbonCaptureandStorage #blanketbog by banning #windfarms on protected #peatland in England petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... Infrastructure construction is one of the biggest threats to #wetland #biodiversity.
February 16, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Oh hi bluesky, nice logo!!!
February 19, 2025 at 6:21 PM