Specialist in baseline surveying and subsequent monitoring of invertebrates in the farmed environment. Bees, wasps, other pollinators and IPM species recorded.
Ipswich, UK
Joined June 2024
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From an inland Suffolk farm countryside stewardship grassy/flowery field option. Got another 1 to look at properly but in the meantime B. humilis or not??
@StevenFalk1
@BumblebeeTrust
Worker specimen I took is Bombus humilis so confirmed for site. @StevenFalk1 have you noticed range expansion this year for it?
Pair of Tachina magnicornis males from farmland at Great Tey, Essex yesterday. Plenty of Stomorhina onsite as well.
David Basham retweeted
"Lawrence (1954) found that, on average, each cowpat produced 1,000 developing insects. Assuming each cow produced 6 suitable pats per day, this was equivalent to 6,000 insects per day, 2.2 million insects per year for each cow kept outside all year-round" #biodiversity #cows
#urbansafari Plenty going on in Ipswich this afternoon when the rain cleared. Anthidium manicatum, Cerceris rybyensis in cop, Bombus pascuorum, Comm Blue, Br Argus, Gatekeeper and Philanthus from 'new' estate drainage reedbed and 'greenspace'.
Calling male Turtle Dove at Clopton yesterday afternoon. First I've heard out that way for probably 10 years. Do they call from what they consider suitable nesting areas?
@GrahamDenny9
@stuttonsparrows
@SWTWildFarms
@SaveTurtleDoves
Another badger-predated Bombus nest. Hortorum last week in Dorset. This week pratorum in Suffolk. Badgers ⬆️ Bees ⬇️. It can't not follow.
David Basham retweeted
So this week in the world of farm/environment/land management/ mapping has been “interesting”
And by “interesting” I mean “verging on the utterly bonkers”
Why? Well this week started with Natural England, the government body that looks after the environment launching a new map.
England’s most detailed peat map is here! 🌱
Peatlands store carbon, clean water, and protect against flooding. This new map helps us better protect them.
naturalengland.blog.gov.uk/2…
Watch the video to learn more.
Walking by the Dorset Stour this am. Noticeable lack of terrestrial insects. Lots of odonata but hardly anything on the umbells or Hawthorn. Maybe bcs it gets regularly flooded? It's v dry, so no nectar? Idk. 1 prat nest, few hort and pasc, few flies. More stuff in Graham's yard!
Andrena male. No genal spine, red sternites, long mandibles with perhaps just the slightest hint of extra tooth. Rear tarsi also noticeably pale with similar colour to tibia end. He just looks different to the scotica males (they're from a different but fairly nearby site). 3/3
Think I need my hand holding. I've keyed this out 2x to varians but I've never seen a female before. This will be about 3rd confirmed 'modern' Suffolk site for it so I need to be sure it is. Features all fit OK but ab seems a bit paler haired than expected.
@stevenfalk1
David Basham retweeted
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