Graeme Lyons Sussex Wildlife Trust 🦔 Had a brill' week in NE Scotland 2015 with Glenn Cal Con Ltd surveying sites like Culbin Sands/Forest, Morrich More, Den of Airlie etc. SSSI monitoring for Former NatureScot account. Entomology does not get much better than that.

#HappyNewYear !

Near the end of 2022 we had the opportunity to take part in an interesting @museumnaturalis Universiteit Leiden RAVON genetic research study on introduced alpine newts in #Europe - providing DNA samples from #Scotland .

Watch this space for results!

#amphibians #ecology

Happy New Year's Eve, folks! 🥳

Here's to a brave new world, filled with new wonders, new possibilities, and new discoveries.

Excelsior!

#HappyNewYear #HappyNewYear 2023

*and if you would like to know more about the pretty butterfly pictured here, please see the next tweet.

The Caledonian Conservation office is now closed for the festive break and will reopen on Wednesday 4th January 2023.

Hope everyone has a great Christmas and fantastic New Year!

#HappyHolidays #Christmas2022 #NewYear2023 #FridayFeeling #ChristmasTree #ecology #Scotland

Director Chris Cathrine & Senior Ecologist Niall Currie enjoyed a few games of #MortalKombat at #ProcurexScotland !

Procurement events can be great fun!

#ecology #Scotland #videogames #arcadegames #retrogames #FridayFeeling CIEEM FSB Scotland BiP Solutions Mortal Kombat 1

Come meet Director Chris Cathrine and Senior Ecologist Niall Currie at #ProcurexScotland today (stand 128a) Scottish Event Campus!

CIEEM #ecology #wildlife

Another beautiful #Lepidoptera from Javed & his The Urban Bestiary team!

They're looking for support just now to deliver a new ambitious project on #Butteflies of #Mumbai #India .

Read more letter here & support them if you can!

caledonianconservation.co.uk/cms/resources/…

#butterfly #crowdfund

Javed Ahmed & his team do an AMAZING job furthering understanding of the unique and very important #wildlife in #India . We're glad to support them but they need more help to deliver on their ambitious new project in #Mumbai !

CIEEM BuglifeScotland BAS WWF-India

We're really happy to announce we're supporting Ghostbusters of Glasgow again this year. This has enabled them to get super and hard-to-find stock in for coming events. Money raised goes to Glasgow Children's Hospital Charity. Check them out!

CIEEM FSB Scotland Ghostbusters

Brettus cingulatus female with brood (of 50+) on Days 2 & 3 after emerging from egg. This species has a special connection with my garden: it was first recorded from India from right here, by Javed Ahmed , Ahmed et al. 2017. 🧵
#spiders #wildlifephotography #nature #TeamSpider

Just another day, another book for the #sortinghatspider (and the people who discovered it) to feature in

And all humble-bragging aside, thrilled to see our amazing #spider discovery feature in this Pocket Guide to #Spiders of #India

#ScienceTwitter #SpiderTwitter #scicomm

Director Chris Cathrine has egg(ar) on his face!

Combining #dadjokes and #entomology for the win. I'll get my coat...

(Lasiocampa quercus)

#ecology #moths #Lepidoptera #WednesdayFun #Humpdayhappiness #wildlife #heatwave uk #heatwave

What an achievement! As always, we're honoured to work with this natural history legend. #India #wildlife #spiders #HarryPotter #mountains

Senior Ecologist Euan Murray gets up close with a poplar hawk-moth (Laothoe populi), one of the largest #moths likely to be encountered in #Scotland (totally harmless). We're having fun with lots of moth surveys this year - why not get your own moth trap? #wildlife #entomology

Amazing observation! Read more in the paper: peckhamia.com/peckhamia/PECK…

#spiders #India BAS American Arachnological Society

Who you gonna call?

Well, if it's wildlife or ecology related, us!

But today we had a visit from some paranormal investigators in the Ecto-Z, picking up some equipment we've been storing for Ghostbusters of Glasgow.

#Ghostbusters #WhoYouGonnaCall #wildlife #ecology #Scotland

Stop the press! New paper by Chris Cathrine & Tony Monir about #turtles Glasgow Botanic Gdns! Three types were found including two subspecies of Trachemys scripta & a new species for #Scotland - Mauremys reevesii! Read more here: glasgownaturalhistory.org.uk/gn27_4/Cathrin…

The Team is CalCon & it was wonderful to at last get so many of us together for some social time - faces old and new. Where better than BreaStirling - amazing food & service! Last restaurant we visited before covid & first we've returned to.

#Scotland #food #eatlocal #ecology

Free mini-workshop at Comrie Croft this Sunday: eventbrite.co.uk/e/bugs-and-bea…
Lead by ecologist Cal Con Ltd, it's a family-friendly day out, learning all about how to do a biodiversity survey as part of natural building. Part of the #GrassrootsHut project. Hannah Genders Boyd Historic Environment Scotland

Come along and join Director Chris Cathrine to learn about how to find invertebrates Comrie Croft on 12th June at 12:00. Suitable for beginners and families too!

#wildlife #Scotland #bugs #invertebrates

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