Wildlife & horticulture enthusiast in the Irish Midlands. Let's restore Ireland's biodiversity pocket by pocket with whatever resources are at hand. Focusing on knowledge-sharing and often distracted by handi-crafting. Spelling errors included free.
Carla Jack
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Try to keep things focused on action and learning but the corporate capture of our infrastructure makes my blood boil. We don't need to be a cautionary tale but Ireland seems dead set on becoming a nation run by rent seekers and pillagers.
2026 the year of grassland plants & bats for me. 4th batwalk of the season completed last night in co Laois.
Bat Conservation Ireland has free courses (with login) on #IrishBats with short species ID and bat detector basics.
DM me for Laois Bat grp whatsapp
training.batconservationireland.org
@bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social I'm familiar with common knapweed on my land (smoother leaf margins) but I found some knapweeds yesterday that had 'toothier' leaf margins. Am I overthinking it or are these two different species?
Any resources to suggest? I intend to go back when in flower.
#bugsky I saw these larvae emerging from a weevil cocoon cage on dock plant? 1st pic mine (Ireland), 2nd & 3rd pics Dock hyper weevil from Naturespot
Looks like sawfly larvae but looking for weevil larvae pics for comparison.
Any ideas @haggewoods.bsky.social @thenorfolkcoast.bsky.social ?
The #BigMeadowSearch is on and I made my first mini meadow trip today in-between school runs.
Perfect excuse to work on plant ID skills, visit the local green sites and find some interesting buggy friends (marmalade hoverflies everywhere!)
Now if only the kids would go to bed.
A ca. 4,500-year-old seed bag from #Egypt, made from reed-grass. It's still in fantastic condition due to the arid desert climate.
On display at Neues Museum Berlin.
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Look at these handsome fellas! Great finds #Bugsky #NatureIreland
New paper out in New Phytologist 🌱
After centuries of research in Europe, we have studied only ~37% of all seed-dispersal interactions.
Birds of prey, ants, and rodents are among the most understudied - yet researchers rarely flag them as gaps!
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
First of two webinars for Invasive Species Week (22-28 June):
Stop the Spread - How policymakers & gardeners can fight back against invasive plants, with Oisín Ó Néill (IWT Advocacy Officer) and Mary Reynolds (We Are The Ark)
Registration:
invasives.ie/event/stop-t...
@wearetheark.bsky.social
Flower crab spider ready for seconds
Training courses to learn more about our Irish bats, their habitats, how to identify them and the basics of carrying out a bat survey.
Green Tiger Beetle (Cicindela campestris), Two-handed Longhorn (Rhagium bifasciatum) and Rhagonycha lignosa from John's Hill pNHA, Co. Carlow over the weekend.
Ireland used as warning in UN data centre report as energy demand runs ahead of infrastructure.
Data centres use of electricity equal to all urban households combined.
Concerns over cooling systems, water withdrawals, land use, critical minerals, and e-waste.
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
Data processing accounts for 21% of Irish electricity use – compared to just 4% in the US and 1% in China
Here we go……
🎉launch day for Big Meadow Search 2026 🎉
Please help us add more dots to the UK, Ireland and Channel Island map.
You can search any grassland between now and 31st August. No fancy methodology, just amble around and see what you see. More below
