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Last week we shared the news that insect splats on number plates, across the UK, have decreased by a staggering 78% since 2004.
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buglife.org.uk/news/bugs-matt…

🪰If this news has left you needing a little #MondayMotivation , read on & take part in #BugsMatter 2024 !

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💡Will you join us & pledge to keep inside light, inside?

🌃Every time we turn on a light, we risk polluting the natural world. But what if helping to protect #nature was as simple as drawing the curtains/lowering a blind?
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buglife.org.uk/campaigns/ligh…

#CurtainsForLightPollution

May is the best time of year for seeing wasp-like nomad bees. They can be especially common in woods, along hedges, heathland & brownfield sites. A new test key to the 39 British spp has just been released bwars.com/sites/default/…. Feel free to test it out and give me feedback.

Green-veined White butterfly just chilling on my tulip.
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Come and join Dave Goulson and Issy Sexton for a workshop on Pollinators in trees next weekend!

Activities include:
Making Hoverfly Lagoons
Self led bug hunt in trees
Gall-ing cards

We have very limited spaces so book now to not be disappointed!
cpresussex.org.uk/.../pollinator…

Hydrothassa glabra, quite a scarce beetle here in the East Midlands, this from unimproved hay meadow earlier today Coleopterists Society of Britain and Ireland #Chrysomelidae

Before cutting your lawn and treating it with weedkiller, consider how many creatures love living in long grass. Let grass grow lusciously long and help wildlife thrive. #nomow may #nomow #urbannature #buzzandscuttle

A protected spider!

Macrothele calpeiana - the Gibraltar funnel-web spider or Spanish funnel-web spider, is one of the largest spiders in Europe. A stunning spider with very long spinnerets

#FincaLaDonaria #Spain #spiders

It's May and the Beech leaves on our south-facing garden hedgerow are developing. They attract lots of invertebrates that visit to warm-up. Here's a selection from the last couple of days. #Biodiversity #Bonanza

Do #insects have to change their sounds to be heard in noisy places?  

🦗Join the Natural History Museum #NatureOverheard survey to help better understand how road noise affects insects

ℹ️ Find out more & sign up to take part👇
nhm.ac.uk/take-part/moni…

#CitizenScience #NatureOverheard

#ICYMI ~ Join our team!

🪲Could you help to deliver a portfolio of conservation & research projects across the #SouthWest of England, helping threatened #invertebrates to survive & thrive?

Find out more 👇
buglife.org.uk/job/species-re…

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!! Evidence of a big #insectmigration event in Cyprus! Large numbers of insects (beetles, flies, bugs, moths, & bees) washed up on strandline!

Similar to the insect migration event in 2019 where >39mil insects migrated to Cyprus from Middle East! nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.111…

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Megabunus diaema with its bulging eye turret (ocularium), crowned with impressive spikes is a species of Opiliones that one would have trouble confusing with any other of the UKs Harvestmen. #TurnFear2Fascination

Thrilled to find a shiny 2 Spot Ladybird in my garden today, an ever declining Native aphid hunter, swiftly followed by elusive 24 Spot Ladybird at just 3mm, lovely Orange-Brown head, feeds on Plant matter & Meadow grass seed Buglife The Wildlife Trusts #InsectThursday