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

🌿 We're at Braywick Nature Festival on Saturday 1 August! Come along for family-friendly activities and find out how to get involved in wildlife recording. 🦋🐞 #BraywickNatureFestival #WildlifeRecording

🌿 A great day last Friday at the Cherwell Collective Family Day at Oxford Botanic Garden! Families enjoyed our Noticing Nature activities, while @wildoxfordshire.bsky.social, Cherwell Collective and Oxford Botanic Garden provided plenty more ways to explore nature. 🐝🌱

Attendees at our recent #NoticingNature event at Barton Fields captured these wetland plants: Water Mint, Purple Loosestrife and Bulrush. Do you have a favourite?  #wildflowerhour #wetlandplants

Lots of Jersey Tiger moths (Euplagia quadripunctata) coming to light in our garden in Oxford last night @upperthames.bsky.social @bbowt.bsky.social @kitenet.bsky.social @tverc1.bsky.social

Look out for the Hornet Hoverfly (Volucella zonaria), Britain's largest hoverfly, at BBOWT's Dry Sandford Pit. It flies from May–November & is often seen on marjormam, scabious & ivy flowers - find our more in our best-selling #flyble bit.ly/4dqQI8Z @bbowt.bsky.social @tverc1.bsky.social

We've been receiving a few records of Jersey Tiger moths recently! If you spot one, we'd love to hear about it. Have you seen a Jersey Tiger moth this summer? Share your records with us! #JerseyTiger #Moths #NationalMothWeek #MothWeek

New BeeWalk data shows that extreme temperatures can cause bumblebee colonies to decline and populations to shrink the following spring. With more intense heatwaves on the horizon, some of our most cherished species could be pushed to the brink. Read more: https://ow.ly/JMNs50ZqHir

Delighted to spot this female Wasp Spider (Argiope bruennichi) in the fen this morning, the first of the year for us here. 😍 #inverts #UKWildlife #OxfordshireFens @britishspiders.bsky.social @tverc1.bsky.social @judywebb.bsky.social

🌿 Join us this Friday at Oxford Botanic Garden for the Cherwell Collective Family Day! 🎟️ £10 adults, U16s free, plus 20 free adult tickets available. First come, first served! Sign up: tinyurl.com/familybotanicday

🦋 The UK is home to 2,500+ moth species. This #NationalMothWeek, help record them through the National Moth Recording Scheme or send your sightings to TVERC to! #Moths #MothWeek #Nature #Wildlife

☀️We've been out surveying #LocalWildlifeSites across Oxon and Berks between recent hot spells. These sites help protect some of our most valuable habitats and species, providing vital spaces for nature to thrive. Learn more about the project: https://tverc.org/data-hub/local-wildlife-sites-lws

🦋 The #BigButterflyCount is back starting today until 9th August! Spend just 15 mins spotting butterflies in your garden or park! It’s fun, free & helps nature! Join in: https://bigbutterflycount.butterfly-conservation.org/ 📷Spotted at Barton Fields Noticing Nature event this week

Seen a stag beetle? These remarkable insects can spend up to 7 years underground before emerging for just a few weeks in summer. Join the #GreatStagHunt with @ptes-org.bsky.social and submit your sightings, photos, videos or audio: https://stagbeetles.ptes.org/

The very first of our Grass-of-Parnassus (Parnassia palustris) or "bog star" flowers are just starting to open. 😍 Let's hope this is another bumper year for one of the southern most populations of this plant. #WildflowerHour @bsbibotany.bsky.social @tverc1.bsky.social @judywebb.bsky.social

🌿 🌿 Yesterday we returned to Barton Fields for another #NoticingNature event! With help from David and Graham from Abingdon Naturalists Society, and Imogen from @wildoxfordshire.bsky.social, we explored the site's amazing wildlife using sweep nets and pitfall traps. 🐞🦗

🌿 Earlier this month we enjoyed a morning at St Mary’s Fields, Kidlington for one of our Noticing Nature events. Highlights included a grass snake, plenty of butterflies, and grasslands full of beautiful wildflowers. 🦋🌼 Huge thanks to Julia for leading us and for all they do to care for this site.

Sooo many butterflies in the Valley at the moment. Here's a pristine Green-veined White (Pieris napi) refuelling on some of our Ragwort flowers. 😍 They love the damp lush conditions in our #fen. #inverts #UKWildlife @upperthames.bsky.social @judywebb.bsky.social #OxfordshireFens

Some new grey wagtails have entered the world! 🩶💛 With thanks to our friend Henry for sending us his fantastic trailcam footage from Waterstock Local Wildlife Site.

🔍 Species Spotlight: Common Blue Damselfly A familiar summer sight around ponds and lakes, males are bright blue with black markings, while females come in several colour forms. 📸 Seen one this year? Share your photos and record your sighting on iRecord! #DragonflyWeek

What a lovely day at the Oxford Nature Festival last Saturday at @morethanadodo.bsky.social!🐝  A big thank you to everyone who made the Oxford Nature Festival such a great day. We loved chatting with many of you, the museum team and other stall holders, and sharing our passion for local wildlife. 🦋

We’re excited to announce our TVERC Autumn Recorders’ Conference 2026! 🌿 🗓️ Sat 10th Oct 📍 Upper Basildon Village Hall Join fellow wildlife recorders and local groups for a day of displays, updates and shared knowledge from across Berks and Oxon. 🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/thames-val...

New @pomscheme.bsky.social data shows mixed fortunes for pollinators 🐝 📉 Hoverflies down ~⅓ 📊 Some groups stable or up 🌼 Gardens may be refuges for some species These insights rely on thousands of volunteers collecting data. Without them, we wouldn’t see these trends. ukpoms.org.uk/news-trends

*** TODAY! *** Please come to see us if you're in Oxford! (Given the heat we can't guarantee being there till 6pm though!)

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Join Ecologist Judy Webb to learn about the history & ecology of Lye Valley in Oxford - a 14,000-year-old internationally rare habitat 🍂 Find out more thenaturefestival.org @morethanadodo.bsky.social @bbowt.bsky.social @friendlyevalley.bsky.social @naturerecovery.bsky.social @ecioxford.bsky.social

We’re hoping for slightly cooler weather next Thurs 2 July as we head to St Mary’s Field, Kidlington for our next Noticing Nature session🌿 Join us for a relaxed walk to slow down, look closely, and see what wildlife we can find together. Free to book: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/noticing-n...

Noticing Nature - St Mary's Fields Kidlington

Come join us at St Mary's Fields Kidlington to appreciate and connect with nature in a whole new way!

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Did you know that glow-worms are actually beetles which use their bioluminescence to attract mates?  This one was spotted by our Data Manager, Ellen a couple of weeks ago at @bbowt.bsky.social ’s Whitecross Green Wood Let us know if you spot one: https://tverc.org/recorders/share-your-records

You don't need special equipment to enjoy #InsectWeek - step outside, explore your local area & create your own adventure 🐝 Turn your garden, balcony, school grounds or local park into an exploration zone with bug hunts, photo challenges & nature discoveries! Share your activities in the comments!

Too hot to go outside? Why not take advantage of the break in surveying to sort and submit your data to us? We've heard it's very cooling!😉 Any old notebooks or lists you’ve been meaning to go through? Now's the perfect time! https://tverc.org/recorders/share-your-records

The day-flying Six-belted Clearwing moth Bembecia ichneumoniformis seen at eastern end of Greenham Common today - lots of its foodplant bird's-foot-trefoil in flower @upperthames.bsky.social @bbowt.bsky.social @tverc1.bsky.social

Our Marsh Helleborines are just coming into flower. 😍 Vulnerable on the #EnglandRedList, it's Scarce in Oxon, and Rare in vc23. Thanks to our continued #FenRestoration work, this is now probably the best place to see them in Oxfordshire. @bsbibotany.bsky.social #WildflowerHour