New month, new butterflies and moths to look out for in your gardens and local green spaces! 🦋🌻 See how many you can spot in the Big Butterfly Count, running until 9 August 👉 https://butrfli.es/3SVFepj

Ever wondered what it's like to attend a scientific conference? Read our newest blog to learn about Caspian's experience of the @royentsoc.bsky.social Student Forum. #Entomology #Conference entobites.blog/2026/07/28/b...

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What Actually Happens at a Scientific Conference?  Growing up, the year was split into two seasons. During the cooler months of the year my dad, who works in horticulture, was usually home. However…

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In September, I’ll be running the Great North Run in aid of @savebutterflies.bsky.social . If you are able to, I would love if you could help me support BC at: ajbellgreatnorthrun2026.enthuse.com/pf/madeleine... 🦋 More on my why below! 1/

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Hi and thank you for visiting my page! 🦋 This September, I'm going to be running the Great North Run, a half-marathon set in Newcastle upon Tyne and my first official half-marathon. I've decided to f

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The Big Butterfly Count 2026 is here and butterflies need our help! 🦋 From now until 9 August, spend just 15 minutes outside counting the butterflies you see and help us take nature's pulse. The best part? Anyone, anywhere can take part. Count yourself in 👉 https://butrfli.es/3SVFepj

📣EUROPEAN RED LIST OF MOTHS PUBLISHED!📣 A m(amm)oth task - huge congratulations to the team! Spoiler: >3000 species assessed at the European level, 704 of them endemic. Ca. 25% are listed as Data Deficient & 11% threatened with extinction. op.europa.eu/en/publicati...

🦋 The International Symposium Ecology and Conservation of Butterflies and Moths (ECBM 2027) is officially open! 🌍 Join the international butterfly and moth conservation community 📅 6–10 April 2027 📍 Girona, Spain

Lovely Six-spot Burnets today and my first time seeing their chrysalis! Some wasted no time and mated straight away! #mothsmatter #teammoth

In May, thanks to the Diarsia award from @savebutterflies.bsky.social, I had the pleasure of spending time in Cumbria, sampling for Lepidoptera larvae in gorgeous hedgerows to learn about light pollution mitigations. You can read more here: butterfly-conservation.org/our-work/sci....

The wonderful editors and writers at EntoBites have been working on some amazing articles, and you don't want to miss them! Check out newest entomological science through easy to read articles at entobites.blog! @entobitescomms.bsky.social @royentsoc.bsky.social

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When I started my PhD, I imagined I would do a lot of different things. But planting hundreds of plants wasn't on the list! Exciting experiments pending...🦋

We regret that our event on Extreme Heat: Improving governance and strengthening action around the world has been cancelled due to the red extreme heat warning issued by the UK Met Office. Our apologies to everyone who was planning to attend the event.

Stronger punishments get better results? Not for this hawkmoth 👀🚫 Check out our new paper where we link sensory ecology to colour discrimination learning in an insect pollinator. Shout out to co-authors @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social and @jjfosterlab.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.an...

Introducing Mast-EER: a new Masters by Research at @exeter.ac.uk funded through our Engineering Ecosystem Resilience opportunity space to develop interdisciplinary ecosystem researchers of the future. Apply by 31 July for a September start: https://ecologyconservation.exeter.ac.uk/masteer-cohort/

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Final week to apply for our FREE Young Leaders Course➡️ www.bto.org/young-le... This residential course is for young people aged 18–25 who want to make a difference for the natural world & for people. 🌳🐦 📆 Monday 27 to Friday 31 July 2026. 📍 Cameron’s Cottage, Hampshire. 📝 Deadline: 22 June

Last week I had the wonderful opportunity to give an entoLIVE talk for the @biologicalrecording.co.uk, over 600 people signed up to listen to me talk about my work on commensalisms, their ecological importance, and how Flower Crab spiders fit into it all. biologicalrecording.co.uk/2026/06/02/f...

Friend, Foe, or Freeloader? The Flower Crab Spider

The Flower Crab Spider (Misumena vatia) is a camouflage expert when it comes to hiding out on flower heads to capture prey. In this talk, Rose will introduce the ecology of these spiders, why it is…

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An amazing find in Perthshire- an adult Robin repeatedly feeding a recently-fledged Dipper! Interspecific feeding is recorded from time-to-time, but it's rare and a phenomenal thing to witness first-hand. Huge thanks to James Clements for reporting it. #BirdingScotland

We're pleased to announce that our Outreach and Engagement Grant Scheme is now open to RSB members for applications! This grant is exclusively for funding of up to £1,000 to run a #CitizenScience survey, event, or activity. 📆 Apply by 6 July 2026 Find out more: www.rsb.org.uk/oe-grants.html

The relationships between insects and plants can be complicated and messy. Find out about how some plants lure ants into a mutualistic relationship, but with a catch... 🐜🌿 #ChemicalEcology #Entomology #Insects #Science Read our latest article by Molly Walker here: entobites.blog/2026/06/04/a...

🚨We're hiring again, this time for a research assistant position 🚨 The position is to help with a project looking at learning and social behaviour in birds along an urban gradient Position at @ceec-research.bsky.social 📆28th June deadline More info: shorturl.at/vBxiW #ringing #fieldwork

Pollinators matter for human health!🐝 Our new @nature.com paper traces links from wild pollinators>crops>nutrient intake & income of families in rural Nepal—showing how pollinator declines threaten health & livelihoods, but also how farmers can help manage these risks doi.org/10.1038/s415...

New paper out now! Biologically inspired warning patterns deter a passerine, Parus major, from digital turbine blades academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...

Biologically inspired warning patterns deter a passerine, Parus major, from digital turbine blades

By mimicking the warning colours of animals that ward off birds, we can produce wind turbine patterns to which birds are averse, reducing the likelihood of

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This morning I was interviewed on BBC Radio Gloucestershire and Newcastle on the BGB regarding the new guidance on birdfeeding and my favourite places to bird in the North East! You can listen on BBC sounds from 7am on Glocs and 8:20 on Newcastle 🐦‍⬛🪿🦆🦉

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The Big Garden Birdwatch results are coming soon… 👀 While we wait, here’s a throwback to when we hit the streets of Manchester to talk birds (what else?). Thanks again to Postcode Lottery players for helping Big Garden Birdwatch reach even more people this year. 🐦‍⬛ @postcodelotteryuk.bsky.social

It's #MothFaceFriday which means it's time for one of the cutest moth faces there is... The ewoch-mimicking Yellow Horned 🥹 Moths that look like sticks, dead leaves, or bird droppings are one thing. Moths with kitty cat ears are something else altogether! 🐱 #TeamMoth

Join a new citizen science project and help us to uncover the hidden lives of Europe’s ground-nesting #bees - please share with your networks: jeffollerton.co.uk/2026/04/02/h...

Help us uncover the hidden lives of Europe’s ground-nesting bees

When most people think about pollinators, they picture bees visiting flowers. But for many species, a large part of life happens elsewhere: in the soil. Many pollinators do not just feed above grou…

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Look out for these seven hairy caterpillars found on our precious peatlands in the North of England 🐛🔍 Spotted a hairy caterpillar? Report your sighting to us through the ‘Peatland Caterpillars Recording Project’ on iRecord 👉 https://irecord.org.uk/join/peatland-caterpillars-recording-project

Really happy that a moth made it to the cover of @nature.com! Thanks to my co-author Gunnar Brehm for this great photo 📸 Find our study on thermal limits in this week's issue: www.nature.com/nature/volum... @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social @biologie-uniwue.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de

Wonderful to be back to fieldwork, investigating how we can mitigate light pollution impacts on moths. Only a few weeks in and I've been treated to some amazing moths, sunsets and plenty of blue skies. Excited for the rest of the field season! #moths #ALAN #mitigations @nclneg.bsky.social

New paper! Bird nests (Wood Warblers) are hubs of invertebrate biodiversity on forest floor, hosting more species/individuals than leaf litter. Probably due to heat & food detritus. Losing Wood Warblers = ecological networks lost. #ornithology resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Bird nests support a diverse, dynamic and distinctive macroarthropod community on the forest floor

Nests built by vertebrates, such as birds and mammals, constitute diverse microhabitats that are inhabited by many arthropod taxa and represent important hubs of local biodiversity. Compared to leaf...

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Nice few moths this morning, including Menophra japygiaria, Agrotis, Small Mottled Willow (Spodoptera exigua) and Aleucis distinctata! #teammoth #mothsmatter

A beautiful Two-tailed Pasha (Charaxes jasius) caterpillar found in south Portugal 🦋 @europebutterfly.bsky.social