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Well this is a bit depressing. It’s getting harder and harder to make a living and it worries me. Please have a look and repost. www.gailmyerscough.co.uk

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Enjoy this great short (9 min) film on the work of Constanti Stefanescu, co-ordinator of the Catalan Butterfly Monitoring Scheme. Such schemes are not only important for the butterfly counts, but also as a social network bringing butterflies to the people. www.youtube.com/watch?v=d__p...

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What's it like to volunteer with HCGA? One of our lovely volunteers made this fantastic video so you can see what it is like to be a volunteer - including lots of weeding, gardening in all weathers and of course lots of tea and biscuits www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0a2...

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King Street Public Realm Improvements www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/king-street-...

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Phoenix Farm in White City open today 11-3pm. Come and help us name our chickens and learn about butterflies. Free pizza! @lbhf

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Peacock Butterfly earlier this week, Phoenix Farm, White City, London

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It's just too good.

submitted 49 days ago • 22 comments

Comma, basking on bramble. Yesterday,Henley-on-Thames, Oxon. #ukbutterflies @savebutterflies.bsky.social

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Small White, Sunday. Twyford, Berks.

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I know I keep banging on about my designs but it’s not easy being a small business at the moment. Take a look at my wares and please repost. gailmyerscough.co.uk Thanks!

submitted 74 days ago • 12 comments

The new FIT Count season is nearly here 🎉🎆👏 From 1st April onwards, when weather is good, enjoy spending 10 minutes counting the insects that visit flowers - wherever you can find flowers, and as often as you wish, to help monitor #pollinators. Full details on our website ukpoms.org.uk/fit-counts

submitted 65 days ago • 1 comment

Our beautiful cat, Katniss, is missing! We've looked everywhere for her locally, plus have put up posters and local online adverts. We think she might have jumped in a car or van and ended up further afield. If you are in North London (NW5 and surrounds), please keep an eye out! details below.

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“Hello. We’d like to talk to you about Geesus.”

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We sent NHS staff into a deadly pandemic wearing bin liners. Hundreds of them died. Separated from their families for months, they worked unimaginable hours, and saw thousands drown in their bed. And these worms DARE judge them for doing something silly for 5mins to boost morale and keep sane? WTAF

submitted 77 days ago • 51 comments

This guy, @albertburneko.bsky.social, is a genius. Please read his brilliant article on Elon Musk's deranged and morally repugnant Mars colonisation schtick. defector.com/neither-elon...

submitted 79 days ago • 167 comments

If you enjoy reading nature books, check out the nature writing starter packs for a diverse list of writers: SP1 go.bsky.app/NXoPc6D SP2 go.bsky.app/7opWxNV And there's the nature writing feed too: bsky.app/profile/did:... Please share with like-minded folk 🙏

submitted 81 days ago • 7 comments

Butterfly reports pouring in for today in Bedfordshire. 20 so far... iMap (www.keithbalmer.com/bedsbutterfl...) has been updated with all this year's records from online sources.

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Dr. Charles Henry Turner was from Ohio; he earned a BSc and MSc from the University of Cincinnati. He was the first African American to earn a PhD in #entomology, which was at the University of Chicago in 1907. #28DaysOfBlackSTEMHistory #BlackHistoryMonth www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

submitted 86 days ago • 6 comments

hcga.org.uk/ravenscourt-... Should you happen to be local....

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Well, we've finally deactivated our Twitter account for good, thanks to the actions of its owner. On a lighter note, here's a real emperor 😀

submitted 90 days ago • 12 comments

President Trump moved to drastically shrink the Presidio Trust, the federal agency that oversees the Presidio of San Francisco, a national park at the base of the Golden Gate Bridge and one of the city’s most cherished public spaces, in an executive order issued Wednesday.

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The Wood White settles with its wings closed, so how can you tell male from female when the diagnostic black spot, found on the apex of the upperside forewing, cannot be seen? Well, the male has a white patch on the inside of the tip of each antenna that is brown in the female - male & female below!

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Other work of the Ladybird artists. ‘Missel Thrush’, 1937 Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

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Talk by Rosy Hardy, one of the greats of British horticulture, at the next Flower Market, Sunday 2nd March. Book now: bit.ly/3X0ZftP

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Looking for something to do during half term

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A gardening competition in Surrey has returned this year centred around the theme of butterflies and moths. The show's theme aims to highlight severely declining numbers of butterflies reported in the UK in 2024.

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Today is National Umbrella day ‘The Ladybird ABC, 1959’ Artist: G Robinson

submitted 105 days ago • 7 comments

www.henleystandard.co.uk/news/home/19... local news, often better.

submitted 107 days ago • 1 comment

55 years ago, this magnificent thing was Number One youtu.be/TfY8hR5frEQ?...

submitted 113 days ago • 3 comments

Marianne, London 2014

submitted 115 days ago • 11 comments

I have a big ask. My 9yo son is autistic and he’s been raising a betta fish he named Kevin. Yesterday He asked if he could “share a photo of Kevin with the whole world“. I don’t know if this will work, but a dad’s gotta try. Like and share if that’s your thing. Kevin says hi! 🐟👋

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open.substack.com/pub/rorycell... Why #sophiefromromania is leaving Twitter- welcome to BlueSky new followers!

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"He was slightly put out to learn that Anita Brookner’s Hotel du Lac beat him to the Booker Prize in 1984 (his novel Small World was shortlisted) after one judge read the others a positive review of a Brookner novel that Lodge himself had written." My tribute to the late, brilliant David Lodge:

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Chiswick House and Gradens, Grey Heron

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My recent piece on #Musk in the Christmas @newstatesman.com www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024...

submitted 143 days ago • 34 comments