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stephenroughle3.bsky.social
Coding chemist, Scouser, amateur cornet/trumpet player, @CSDBrass, moths, uses same handle on xwitter. For stuff about KNIME see @DrKnimeNode http://mastodon.world/@SawstonMoth
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submitted 3 days ago • 524 comments

Given that we’re a nation of nature lovers, whose conservation charities are among the world's biggest membership organisations, Keir Starmer’s repeated attacks on voters who want to protect the living planet, calling us “time-wasting nimbys”, “blockers” and “zealots”, is frankly idiotic.

submitted 3 days ago • 79 comments

Celypha lacunana was NFY in the trap this morning as was this female Common Swift. Also the reds were out and about - Cinnabar and Flame Carpet

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Spent a bit of time staring at things in the "meadow" were I haven't mowed the lawn much in the last 2-3 years. Plenty of Ox-eye daisy in there, and this evening found my first confirmed Bucculatrix nigricomela perched on the end of a leaf of one. Also 4 Cochylimorpha straminea. 1/2...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

@vc40orthops.bsky.social and I are pleased to announce the publication today of the “Micro ladybirds of Britain and Ireland”, in collaboration with the FSC: www.field-studies-council.org/shop/publica...

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

Another hot sunny day with a gentle breeze saw AND, VES, CUL and FOR clearwing lures deployed again. Slightly surprisingly, late morning I found my first Red-belted Clearwing of the year in the AND pot - a whopping 34 days earlier than my previous earliest...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Last night added 3 carpet species to the year list here in VC29 - Common Marbled, Red Twin-spot (underside of wings checked) and Green....

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Very moody skies at dawn this boring (taken at about 4.40am) - moths far outnumbered by flying ants which were everywhere around and in the trap - surprised Alfred Hitchcock didn't think of it as a sequel to birds....

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

5/5 this morning in the trap - 2 NFY - Common White Wave and my second ever Musotima nitidalis (The first sometime last yearflew from the eggbox, landed long enough for me to see what it was on a nearby plant and then flew again before net, pot or camera could get to it!)

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Flash of red in the garden earlier - Ruby Tiger

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Seen several flying around the lure over the last couple of weeks at various times, but this is the first one I've managed to net with broken ankle to contend with... The (Small) Emporer Moth, Saturnia pavonia

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Want to share your research at #Ento25? We are offering opportunities for talk & poster presentations, in-person & online, allowing as much of the community to participate as possible. Abstract deadline: 17:00 (BST), Friday 20 June 🔽 buff.ly/jq41Fan

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

Well, it's a bit late now for this one (for anyone missed the original, Sky News managed to mistake SAS for... well, the SAS rather than a Scandinavian airline while Heathrow was shut), but.... here it is anyway!

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

This is what a worldwide Tesla boycott looks like. Reports just in show that Tesla sales in San Diego have dropped by 35% this month. We likely won’t have a full picture of U.S. sales for another week.

submitted 59 days ago • 345 comments

Put the FUN lure out again yesterday. Hadnt washed the trap since previous time - 1 Pammene giganteana into the trap while I was still thawing the bung in it's vial in my office (11.20 am) 3 more in until 13:10, no more until took it down again at 16:20

submitted 65 days ago • 1 comment

We just wanted to take a moment to thank all our new supporters! Tomorrow, there will be more of us!

submitted 66 days ago • 1282 comments

Very cold overnight with a hard frost here in South Cambs, but rewarded with an Early Grey (Xylocampa areola) - NFY

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments