Wonderful session!!!

Invertebrates do have welfare protection, right?

Thank you for a very remarkable presentation about a very remarkable bird.

Excellent presentation! Thank you for your time Elliot. The Dawn Chorus graphic done my the museum is an absolutely brilliant goal to strive for, certainly a goal I'd like to see come to fruition. Cheers!

Fascinating!

Excellent 😊

Darn missed the talk today with the time difference. Thanks for sharing the first talk of the year. An optimistic talk to kick off the new year :)

Newest bee to the UK? I'd say that title would go to Bombus Hypnorum.

Driving record 1:02

That is one adorable wee tim'rous beasty in your thumbnail. ❤❤❤

Ealing Wildlife Group sets a gold standard for community involvement. They have superb relationship with the council's Park Rangers. Ealing's many parks are so different to the green deserts they were a decade or more ago. The Ealing Hospital Peregrines webcam, the swift nesting boxes, the discovery of a new moth in Ealing - the achievements just roll... Pity we seem to have missed the end...

Excellent overview, Paul. Well done!

Just to flag I got confused following the subtitles as at about 5:05 it says 'actual knee shop occupied' instead of 'actual niche occupied'!

Unfortunately our fishing lakes are over run by American signal Crayfish. i think that is one reason the fish population is going down in many fresh water lakes , the crayfish are eating the fish eggs after spawning, To help protect our fish populations, we have to get rid of these American Signal Crayfish and prevent the spread of these invasive species,

Excellent talk. I'll be picking up the new book :) Seems to be a leech theme going on at the moment, with the new leech species paper and Medicinal leeches being bred at ZSL London. And yesterday I was filming a Eropobdella sucking up a chironomid larva like spaghetti!

That was excellent, and very interesting. Thank you.

Glad I was finally able to catch up with this talk, the cave species are fascinating and it is really interesting seeing the way these spiders behave and I hope we will be able to find out more about them someday!

8:15 that's why real illustrators are better (at least for now) than AI :) A wildlife illustrator (including myself) would draw more biologically appropriate hoverfly lagoon after your instructions :) Great study, I'm planning to create a lagoon on my balcony the next season!

Thanks

Missed the talk yesterday and caught up this morning. Enjoyed this - thanks Beccy; thanks Biological Recording 😀😀😀

Just noticed a nesting ground of them today in a low cliff edge in Guernsey and wanted to find out more about them. So many holes where they're living! If you ever want to map where its by Pleinmont. Thanks for the insightful video. 😊

Does the ivy bee sting?

I saw one of these many years ago mid 90s when i was a kid hunting for spiders i always thought i imaged it until i saw they had been spotting again in Surrey. I remember its face i was trying to get a spider out of its burrow i thought it was going to be a house spider until this run out at me it made me jump. But i never saw one after that so i always thought maybe i was mistaken

Great talk! Really enjoyed.

Thanks!

Having use "AI" (reverse image search) and now using a Hoverfly book: There may be space to add metadata indeed, such as hoverfly face/antenna etc. with a prompt of "this fly species is hard to ID, but get a photo of the face and we can ID" or "sorry, this one is not possible to ID from photos". But I suspect that needs help per species, which would be too much work/data perhaps?

I have had these in my front south facing lawn for the last three years in Ss5 postcode. There are thousands of them this year. My postman just came and looked really scared. I might have to put a notice up to say what they are. People see yellow stripes and think they are wasps.

I’m trying to say that i have seen one of these and have proof

Great webinar and really charismatic presenter!

Excellent community/science project - so sad that human and insect populations are up against dire conditions when temps vacillate too much out of the norms. The fanning of wings to cool the colony was yet another facet of bee heroism that blows the mind - sophistication/self-sacrifice. Thanks to all who presented, contributed, produced. From a devoted soil builder, here in the damper/cooler quadrant of the usa❤, where bumble bees inhabit very abundant lavender (especially) in my garden. I’ve never noted bees particularly interested in my neighbor’s fuscia, but shall now start paying closer attention.

Fine and informative lecture, thanks so much!

How critical is the tray under the bucket? Edit - ah, it's to try and count the cocoons. I see.

Brilliant stuff!

This is useful and important research! Well done on coining the name and getting the idea to spread.

Been rooting around in our compost bin and found a few, which is great! Not many in the lawn, perhaps too waterlogged and the underlayer is clay you can make bricks from. A few small ones can be found 20 cm deep, will check leaf litter later this year. There don't seem to be worm events in Northern Ireland, we have some sites that are wetland/moorland that would make good sampling sites, easy to access and protected areas, so no issues with worms being gone due to pesticides etc.

The part about them climbing up rust was wild

how did i get here

I can totally see how naming it No Mow May infers that June 1st = Mow Day. They should call it something more encouraging or open ended like Make Hay May or Meadow May instead. Of course the inherent issue is that beyond one month our regular garden lawnmowers struggle to deal with all the growth. Since embracing wildflowers instead of neatly trimmed lawngrass I've had to retire my petrol mower in favour of a scythe! That together with a fiskars push mower (The only one I could find with a range from ~1cm to >10cm) set me back 8x the cost of a cheap electric garden mower!

I think it's well established from meadow management practices that the right time to mow "depends". Whether we take an early cut or a late cut all impacts the growing conditions for the following season so my practice has been to cut 1/3rd of my garden early (mid July), cut 1/3rd late (Aug/Sep) and leave 1/3rd untouched as an overwintering habitat for bugs.

Very jealous of the all holes occupied bee hotel 😂 ours currently only has 3 residents- better than none but hoping for more 😊

Great video - I wish I lived near to a sandy heath

Great presentation thanks all, will keep an eye out to see if it eventually arrives in the Gower or at kenfig in South Wales

Thank you for presentation. Best entomology greetings,❤❤🦋🦋🐝🐝🪲🪲🪲🐞🪱🪱🐞🪲🦋

Alaskan Bull Worm

I wonder if you ever came across my grandfather (Norman Watkins) collection of blues?

Can you share a link to the splat windscreen cartoon please? It was shown at 12.25 .

Really informative, thankyou, will leave all my ivy uncut and hopefully will find some this autumn!