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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...

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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 😀

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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

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

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

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Marianne, London 2014

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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...

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So, 2025 is the year that I get to introduce/inflict my new pseudonymous pen name - S.J. Fleet. And send this little critter out into the world. August 2025 will be the debut of The Cut Throat Trial (although you can pre-order now). And good Lord I’m terrified. www.amazon.co.uk/Cut-Throat-T...

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who would have thought there was a limited Venn Diagram of 1] buyers of electric cars & 2] far right sympathisers

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Happy New Year from London. #LondonFireworks #LondonNYE

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New Year’s Eve celebrations will be muted…..

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I wrote a review of A COMPLETE UNKNOWN: the brand new Bob Dylan bio pic. And I guarantee you it is totally unlike any other critique of the film that you are ever going to run in to. merrillmarkoe.substack.com/p/a-complete...

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What I wrote about Jimmy Carter when he went into hospice two and a half years ago, in @theatlantic.com : www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... What I wrote just now, after being in Panama, about Carter's management of the Canal treaties: fallows.substack.com/p/panama-is-...

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@paranoiacs.bsky.social

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“He’s a kindred spirit to me of a rare kind,” Dylan said of Carter. “The kind of man you don’t meet every day, and you’re lucky to meet if you ever do.”

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On the 5th day of Foxmas @EleonoraSberg brings you foxes in the snow in Oxford ! #12DaysofFoxmas #FoxOfTheDay

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Kew Gardens adds over 300 wild seeds in significant boost to living collection

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The spirit of Christmas past: Cards sellotaped to the mantlepiece

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Elijah Wald, whose book Bob Dylan praised on Twitter earlier this month, shares a 31-track playlist of songs from the Smithsonian Folkways archives to prepare for 'A Complete Unknown'

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This is taking the pith

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www.theguardian.com/thefilter/20.... Good news.....

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Welcome Richard, to Bluesky, and our Aurelians starter pack! go.bsky.app/6DY9XM5

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Great post - reminds us all to look other stages of a butterflies life cycle, for beauty and interest. Now, not to copy or try to outdo it (I leave that behaviour to other, lesser people), here's a Black-veined White #butterfly chrysalis.

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I've joined Bluesky! Hoping to follow and be followed by many of my X/Twitter friends. Please Retweet/Repost or whatever the word is. #invertebrates #insects #moths #dragonflies #wildlife

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Ok, if you’re a small artist/creator with an online shop, post it in the replies here. If you’re not, repost this and with any luck the people gift hunting will find the gift makers. Let’s go!

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