Any #Leeds based birders who have #EccupReservoir as their patch: Mandarin Duck (3m: 1f) at maps.app.goo.gl/qqyMzGw2DwpY...
Got my first bag of potato chips in months. Cracked it open. The first chip out of the bag was... soggy?
The second chip was almost fungal.
Baffled, I explored the bag and discovered AN ENTIRE POTATO. Unsliced, brined, like a wad of seasoning juice. It had survived, and now was juicing the chips.
It feels like the planet's only hope is that Donald presses the wrong 'red button' and turns the electricity off.
Right folks, Bank of England are proposing to have British Wildlife on bank notes: www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/ar....
I am proposing a fly, specifically in the family Asilidae (robber-flies).
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Sunday book review: Pan-species Listing by @graemelyons.bsky.social
Publisher: @pelagic.bsky.social
Review: markavery.info/2026/01/04/s...
"Hardly anyone has the knowledge to write this book & even fewer could write it so well!"
Look what has arrived in the post today!
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A longshot, but I've a common British money-spider (Oedothorax fuscus) with two mites (Acari) attached to its abdomen; I assume phoresy.
Anyone that IDs British mites interested in receiving specimen?
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This event might be of interest to British Arachnological Society member:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/friend-foe...
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Richard Wilson
Our new Atlas of UK spider, harvestmen and pseudoscorpion records is now online at britishspiders.org.uk/atlas. It gives access to 1.6 million records and is constantly updated with data submitted and verified via irecord.org.uk/enter-srs-records.
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Rose Christopher (Newcastle University) shares her research on the Flower Crab Spider (Misumena vatia).
