@yvonnecouch.bsky.social @yvonnecouch.bsky.social I'm the Essex county VC18 and VC19 Coccinellidae and Heteroptera recorder. I especially love the juvenile stages.
Louis Guillot @louisguillot.bsky.social Wildlife Photographer/Storyteller | Conservationist | Zoologist | Urban and Rainforest photos | 📍London, UK📷
Kat Dahl @wildkatdahl.bsky.social Freelance ecologist & entomologist focusing on nature conservation/restoration & public engagement, based in Sussex. Wildlife guide @kneppwilding.bsky.social @greenwingstours.bsky.social
Alicja Witwicka @aswitwicka.bsky.social Researcher | BIOSCAN, Tree of Life, Sanger Institute
👩🏻💻🧬🌱🐝🦋🪲🪰🌍
#Entomology #Genomics #Biomonitoring #Pollinators #Pesticides #Conservation #SciencePolicy she/her
Elizabeth Duncan 🐝🪰🔬🥼 @ejduncan.bsky.social Associate Professor of Zoology @UniversityLeeds, Evolutionary Developmental Biologist. Interested in many things but mostly insects. Views are my own. She/Her. Was e_j_duncan on X.
Rachel she/her @rachbehm.bsky.social PhD student at UCF studying Ichneumonoidea comparative genomics. Masters is in Ophioninae systematics from UCSB. Opinions are my own
Bex Cartwright @bexcartwright.bsky.social Conservation Projects Manager 🌍 🌱 Wild Pollinators 🐝 🐞🐛 Food and Farming 🌾🚜Gardening/GYO 🍓🌽 🌻Views my own 🏴
Jordan Rainey @jordanrainey.bsky.social Entomologist | Rove beetle taxonomy & systematics | Museum collections & biodiversity | PhD exploring beetle-termite relationships 🪲
https://jordanraineyento.wordpress.com
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jordan-Rainey
Rudolf Meier @rudolf-meier.bsky.social Professor and Head of the Center for Integrative Biodiversity Discovery, Berlin. Taxonomy, robotics, AI, imaging and nanopore sequencing for biodiversity discovery at scale.
Stephen Mulvey @stephenmulvey.bsky.social Freelance journalist, ex-mature student (Conservation MSc at UCL), treasurer of the London Bat Group and Fellow of the Linnean Society. In the distant past reported from Kyiv and Baku.
GLiTRS @glitrs.bsky.social GLobal Insect Threat-Response Synthesis (GLiTRS). A project aiming to develop a comprehensive and predictive assessment of the pattern and consequences of insect decline.
Peter Stronach @macstronach.bsky.social ornithology, wildlife, photography and ecology!
#highlandbirds #ornithology #teammoth #birdingScotland #seabirds
Highlands of Scotland 🏴
🪶 🦅 🦆 🦋 ⛰️ 🌊 🐋 🦈 🐙 🏝️ 🌳 🌲 
Graeme Davis @gremlingraeme.bsky.social Conservationist, Author, Moth lover, Work party Leader for Glos BC Rough Bank Nature Reserve
https://linktr.ee/GraemeDavis
Nicky Parry @nickybetts.bsky.social Wildlife enthusiast - mainly Dungeness.
Steve F @halfmanhalfmoth.bsky.social Moths mainly - and hiding in the woods. All views are my own. Or someone else’s. Facebook Admin for Gloucestershire Moths and Moth Trap Intruders.
Greenspace Information for Greater London CIC @gigl-lerc.bsky.social We are the capital's environmental records centre. Our website: https://www.gigl.org.uk/
Submit your species records here: https://www.gigl.org.uk/submit-records/submit-a-record/
Rockwolf 🇪🇺 @rockwolf74.bsky.social Love photography, wildlife, Entomology (especially Pentatomoidea, Coreoidea and Coccinellidae!) ...nature in general! National iRecord verifier for Terrestrial Heteroptera. 333.19 PPM
also @vc40ladybirds.bsky.social
Norbert Holstein @dr-norb.bsky.social #Iamataxonomist and #IamaBotanist. 🧐🌿Senior Curator-in-Charge (from pines 🌲 to vines 🍇) at NHM London. Views are my own.
Agnes Kreiling @agneskreiling.bsky.social Entomologist at Faroe Islands National Museum. Diptera. Coleoptera. And everything else that comes crawling my way.
Louis Nastasi @toomanywasps.bsky.social Professor of Entomology at University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Gall wasp systematics and more. More info at
https://NastasiWaspLab.org/
Andrew McGleish @scotsguyinwales.bsky.social Noticer of lifeforms but trying to focus on Hoverflies and Bees. Retired, so volunteering, enjoying being a papa, recording wildlife and learning. South Wales now. Lefty.
Music, books, art, nature.
Judy Webb @judywebb.bsky.social Ecologist, Palynologist (pollen expert) quite good at Botany, Entomology & Mycology. Conservationist. Ex School Teacher, Ex Forensic Scientist.
Megan Shersby @meganshersby.bsky.social Naturalist, writer and board gamer. Working at @wildlifebcn.org (views my own). Lead author of Where to Watch Wildlife in Britain By Low-carbon Transport (2026). Owner of a dog/servant to two cats. She/her.
Jack Greenhalgh @wildaudiojack.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Fellow @mcgill.ca interested in the mysterious underwater acoustic world of lakes & ponds.
#ecoacoustics #freshwaterecology
Web: https://www.jack-greenhalgh.com Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=ZV-dyhwAAAAJ&hl=en
Ruth Newby @ruthnewby.bsky.social Officially moth-obsessed, also easily distracted by birds, butterflies, flies, wasps and spiders. Musically devoted to an (un)holy trinity of Bruce Springsteen, Nick Cave and Leonard Cohen.
Will George @willgeorge.bsky.social Naturalist with a particular interest in the true bugs, Heteroptera, but fascinated by pretty much all insects and nature. He/Him. https://www.flickr.com/photos/runnerwill/
Reading Entomology @unirdgento.bsky.social News from the entomology lab at University of Reading Biological Sciences, including the MSc by Research Entomology #Entomology
Tim Blackburn @mothyblackburn.bsky.social Professor of Invasion Biology at UCL. Amateur father, birder, moth-er. Mainly post wildlife photos, occasionally science and politics. Author of The Jewel Box, winner of the ZSL Clarivate Award for Communicating Zoology.
Entomological Collections Network @entcollnet.bsky.social Nonprofit dedicated to the promotion of entomology collections & taxonomy via preservation, management, use & development.
➡️ https://ecnweb.net/
Ian Beavis @ianbeavis.bsky.social Research Curator at the Amelia, Tunbridge Wells. Entomologist. Natural historian. Local historian. Ecology & heritage of Scilly & the Channel Islands
Moya Burns @moyalburns.bsky.social Ecologist/Associate Professor. Interested in insects (especially saproxylic beetles), forest restoration, bats, citizen science and environmental education.
Zoë Simmons @pselaphacus.bsky.social Head of Life Collections @ OUMNH
Collections Manager of Arachnida
President of BENHS 2024-25
Entomologist, Arachnologist, Natural Historian, Museum and Collections Nerd
All views my own
Dr Leona Watson (formerly Skelton) @infrastructuregeek.bsky.social Associate Prof in Environmental History, Northumbria Uni. Editor in Chief, Environment and History. Environmental, social and cultural impact of British water and transport infrastructure, 1500-2000. Authored Tyne after Tyne and Sanitation in Urban Britain
Dawlish Warren Recording Group @warrenbirding.bsky.social Wildlife news from Dawlish Warren in south Devon. www.dawlishwarren.co.uk Email: dawlish_warren at hotmail.com
@jurassic-moth.bsky.social @jurassic-moth.bsky.social 
Jess Phillips @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social MP for Birmingham Yardley
Brandon Claridge @ichsofna.bsky.social Ph.D. entomologist/ ichneumonid taxonomist/ owner of Claridge Traps. See ichsofna.org for AI/web tools to help with ichneumonid identifications in North America. Need Malaise traps or light sheets for insect collecting? Visit claridgetraps.com
Tea Francis @teafrancis.bsky.social Artist- taxidermist/fabricator/illustrator/jeweller 🔪✒️🔨
Arachnologist 🕷
Plant hoarder, appreciator & curator 🪴
Collector of the weird & old 🔮
Frank-T. Krell @frankkrell.bsky.social Nationality: Human. Ethnicity: Human. Natural historian, taxonomist, zoologist. Living on the Colorado prairie, working at Colorado State University, and moving to the Smithsonian in November. Studying scarab beetles, and what is going on with taxonomy.
Megan Barkdull @meganbarkdull.bsky.social Asst. Curator of Entomology @nhm.org | evolution, genomes, museums | @cornelluniversity.bsky.social & New College of Florida alumna | she/her. | views are my own.
mbarkdull.github.io
Lin Hawthorne @haggewoods.bsky.social Still Curious
Editor, author, biologist, horticulturist. FLS
Dilettante now, with interests in
Scientific Latin
Plant-invertebrate interactions
Colours of Nature
Truth and Beauty
naturallatin.com
Natalie DS @chalcidcurator.bsky.social Curator at London Natural History Museum.
Naturkundemuseum Stuttgart @smnstuttgart.bsky.social Natural History Museum | Science | Naturkunde | Museum | Wissenschaft & Forschung
Focus: Paleontology | Botany | Entomology | Zoology | Biodiversity | Paläontologie | Botanik | Entomologie | Zoologie | Biodiversität
#ImAuftragderVielfalt
BENHS @britentsoc.bsky.social British Entomological and Natural History Society
www.benhs.org.uk
Harry Witts @hwitts.bsky.social Essex/Yorkshire ecologist, entomologist, birder
Lee Dyer @gusanero.bsky.social loves family, friends, rock climbing, moths, caterpillars, statistics, math, poetry, music, literature; hates the current US Super-Fascist Regime
Neal Evenhuis @bfly52.bsky.social Biologist, bee fly guru, nomenclaturalist, bibliographer, flying disc record holder. Throws left, bats right, blows bubbles when necessary. Me/mine/mine
ElaineShaughnessy @elaineshaughnessy.bsky.social FLS @LinneanSociety.bsky.social, Trustee SHNH @sochistnathist.bsky.social, Associate Editor ‘Archives of Natural History’ published by @Edinburghup.bsky.social, member @IUCN-CEC, @NatSCA, @CIEP.
Stuart Roberts FLS @eucera.bsky.social Bee specialist (not honey bees) and ecologist, Irish/UK dual national, humanist, optimist, Europhile
Birdcall of the Day @birdcalloftheday.bsky.social We provide a daily mystery birdcall (and also birdsong, for those who want to be more specific!). Play the clip. identify the bird. The answer is at the end. For more challenge, identify the country :)
cover art very kindly by birdsinprint.com
Richard Ostler @rostler.bsky.social Agriculture data at Rothamsted Research, Elixir-UK data fellow, FAIR advocate and RDM culture change. Views my own.
Neil Hall @neilhall.bsky.social Science, Genomics, FAIR data, a bit of politics, Liverpool FC #YNWA
Director of the Earlham Institute
Lyds 🏰 @lydiaimogen.bsky.social Aspiring heritage writer and art historian. Currently sat at reception.
Follow my writing endeavours at redactedmuseum.com
John Jennings @johnjennings.bsky.social retired Entomologist
#Australia #Entomology #Hymenoptera #iNaturalist #Zootaxa
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/John-Jennings-9
climate.nasa.gov/evidence/
Biodiversity Data Journal @bdj.pensoft.net Open-access, peer-reviewed journal for taxonomic, floristic/faunistic, genomic, phylogenetic, environmental etc. data on any taxon from any geological era and georgraphy.
Published by @pensoft.net. Powered by @arphahub.com.
Website: bdj.pensoft.net
Idris Adams @idrisadams.bsky.social PhD student in the Sumner Lab at UCL CBER, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment
RES Student Representative
Lover of all things Hymenoptera!
Peter Brash @peterbrash.bsky.social Ecologist, birder, entomologist, botanist and bat botherer. Born in Liverpool and returned via circuitous route. I block dickheads on sight. Compost the rich.
@mickmassie.bsky.social @mickmassie.bsky.social 
Lars Krogmann @krogmann.bsky.social Scientific Director at Natural History Museum Stuttgart
Professor of Biological Systematics at University of Hohenheim
taxonomy | biodiversity | nature conservation | parasitoid wasps
Gail Ashton @gailashton.bsky.social bug lover / nature nerd
photographer / author / illustrator
www.gailashton.co.uk
Books available here:
https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/gail-ashton-nature
Natural History Collections and Museomics @nhcm.pensoft.net Open-access, peer-reviewed journal for research, discussion & innovation of natural history collections.
Publications foster deeper understanding & appreciation of natural history.
Published by @pensoft.net. Powered by ARPHA.
Website: nhcm.pensoft.net
ZooKeys @zookeys.pensoft.net Open-access, peer-reviewed journal for taxonomy, phylogeny, biogeography, and evolution of animals of any geological age from any part of the world.
Published by @pensoft.net. Powered by ARPHA Platform.
Website: zookeys.pensoft.net
Systematics Association @systassn.bsky.social Promoting the study of systematics, general biology and evolution since 1937.
Imran Rahman @imranrahman.bsky.social Palaeobiologist | Principal Researcher @nhm-london.bsky.social | Editor-in-Chief @journalsystpal.bsky.social | Honorary Associate @morethanadodo.bsky.social | he/him
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/departments-and-staff/staff-directory/imran-rahman.html
Eric R. Eaton @bugeric.bsky.social Nonfiction author, blogger, insect identifier, ally. Presenter/speaker. #SciComm, entomology, urban nature, human conflict with other species, other humans. Opposed to colonialism, capitalism. Married Progressive in Kansas, USA.
he/him/they- C Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social Palaeoanthropologist at the Natural History Museum London.
Posts are my own, and when I repost or like, it does not signify I necessarily agree with all content https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/departments-and-staff/staff-directory/chris-stringer.html
Andrea Hart @andreahart.bsky.social Head of Library Special Collections @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social. Love all things paper & vellum, the natural world & its history, mudskippers, running and drinking tea.
Previously @drewyhart on Twitter/X
Paul Williams @paulwilliamsnhm.bsky.social Bumblebee taxonomy / evolution / biogeography - at NHM London:
guides to the species of the Himalaya, Sichuan, North China, &
North America
working with genes & morphology
pic: Yuzhu Mt, Kunlun range
Systematics and Biodiversity @nhmsystbiodiv.bsky.social Documenting the diversity of life through systematics research
📃Our manuscripts:
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/tsab20
🏛️We're based at the Natural History Museum, London:
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/business-services/publishing/Journals
NHM Library and Archives @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social One of the finest collections of natural history literature, art and online resources.
Come and research with us Tuesday - Thursday 10.00 - 16.00 (by appointment).
linktr.ee/nhmlibraryarchives
(Natural History Museum, London and Tring)
Journal of Systematic Palaeontology @journalsystpal.bsky.social Publishing research that uses systematics to advance palaeontology
📃Our papers:
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/tjsp20
🏛️We're based at the Natural History Museum, London:
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/business-services/publishing/Journals
Ana Serra Silva @anaserrasilva.bsky.social Phylogeneticist and evolutionary biologist. Research fellow at UCL Biosciences | Communications Officer for @systassn.bsky.social
Saskya van Nouhuys @saskyavn.bsky.social Population & community ecology, and anything about parasitoids. Professor at the Centre for Ecological Sciences, IISc, Bangalore, India.
Lab website: https://www.saskyavn.blog.
Alan H @alanhilbre71.bsky.social Hilbre Bird Observatory treasurer, birder, photographer. Mostly Wirral based.
Dom Greves @domgreves.bsky.social Digital producer, ecologist, nature conserver/restorer, citizen scientist, wildlife photographer
Tristan Bantock @britishbugs.bsky.social Ecologist/Entomologist
Kent Field Club @kentfieldclub.bsky.social Kent Field Club, founded in 1955, aims to study, record, and deepen the understanding and appreciation of the natural history of Kent, UK. Find more, see our publications, and/or join us here https://www.kentfieldclub.org.uk/
Merseyside BioBank @mbblerc.bsky.social Local Environmental Records Centre for North Merseyside | Not-for-profit organisation | Collect, collate, manage species and habitat data | Connecting people with nature | Wildlife Recording
https://linktr.ee/merseysidebiobank
DipteristsForum @dipteristsforum.bsky.social The society aims to promote the study, recording and conservation of true flies (Diptera). Our focus is on the British Isles, but we foster links with dipterists throughout Europe and further afield.
https://dipterists.org.uk/home
Migrant Lepidoptera (GB & Ireland) @migrantmothuk.bsky.social To forecast and encourage the recording of insect migration events in the UK & Ireland. Please send your records to your County Recorder. Admin @stevenash71.bsky.social
Garden Moth Scheme @gardenmothscheme.bsky.social A UK, Ireland & Channel Islands recording scheme aiming to record moth trends using data created by weekly moth-trapping volunteers.
Open to all, find out more here: https://gardenmothscheme.org.uk
Proud member of #TeamMoth #MothsMatter #GardenMothScheme
South East Wales Biodiversity Records Centre @sewbrec.org.uk We collate, manage & disseminate biodiversity data for south east Wales & promote biological recording.
Submit wildlife records via www.sewbrecord.org.uk or the #LERCWalesApp https://www.sewbrec.org.uk/recording/app
Learn more: https://linktr.ee/sewbrec
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social Our Planet. Decoded.
🎙️ Counting The Earth podcast: https://tinyurl.com/CTEarthpodcast
📰 Newsletter sign-up: https://tinyurl.com/ukceh-news
Bumblebee Conservation Trust @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social The Bumblebee Conservation Trust is the only charity dedicated wholly to saving the UK's bumblebees 🐝
www.bumblebeeconservation.org
📷 Kate Jaconello
BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social BTO is the UK's leading Registered Charity working with volunteers to improve our knowledge of birds through monitoring and research. www.bto.org
Biological Recording Company @biologicalrecording.co.uk Shining a spotlight on the importance of monitoring wildlife and ecological research, with a focus on the groups that get less attention. 🍄🪱🪲🕷️🐌🪼🦈
Posts by Keiron Derek Brown
Nicky Bay @nickybay.bsky.social Macro photographer, cat slave, dedicated to flood your feed with cool spiders, insects, snakes, or anything small that moves.
Jim Labisko💚🐸🦎🐍🐢🦇🐆🧪💙😷4/4 @jimlabisko.bsky.social Devonian tetrapod | Former autonomous human jukebox | FirstGen | DICE Kent alum. | Lecturer in Biodiversity @ UCL | wrote a book about frogs | Opinions recycled | He/him
UCL profile: https://tinyurl.com/42h4vj66
Mixcloud: https://tinyurl.com/2khcwp5a
Mike Ashworth @entmikeashworth.bsky.social Amateur entomologist, dipterist, insect photographer, environmentalist, lapsed morris dancer, retired high-performance computing specialist, located in south-east Somerset, 🇬🇧
Kieran Anderson @andersonkieran.bsky.social Currently Misadventuring in Entomology.
Fascinated by soil dwelling invertebrates and the hymenoptera, mostly wasps. However, easily distracted by just about anything mycological, botanical or inverty. 
Nederlandse Entomologische Vereniging @nev.nl Officiële account van de Nederlandse Entomologische Vereniging (NEV).
Beheer @jittebug.nl en/of @erikvanderspek.bsky.social
Skeets will be mostly in Dutch - apologies to international followers
Sam Thomas @sjthomasbotany.bsky.social Naturalist, botanist and entomologist. He/him.
England Officer @bsbibotany.bsky.social views my own
Liam Olds @liamolds.bsky.social 🦋 Entomologist | Invertebrate Ecologist
🏴 Director of @gloinatur.bsky.social
🐝 Passion for brownfields & wild bees
🪲 Organiser of UK Oil Beetle Recording Scheme
📌 South Wales
#GloiNatur #CoaltoNature #SouthWalesValleys
🔗 gloinatur.org
Joseph Beale @joebeale.bsky.social Naturalist: surveys, guided walks, writing. Moths, butterflies, birds, dragonflies, soldierflies. SE London-based. Views my own etc. 🍉
David Element @davidelement.bsky.social Photographer, naturalist, author, film-maker, webmaster, ex-chartered scientist. All photos and videos © David Element. No AI! https://www.davidelement.net/ https://www.youtube.com/@DavidPElement https://www.avalon.red/editorial?blob=at.DAVID+ELEMENT
Dr Victoria J Burton @soilscholar.bsky.social Postdoc at Natural History Museum London - boosting nature in education. Fan of soil beasties! Amateur Entomologists' Society Trustee & Membership Administrator. She/her 🌈
Jess Awad @parasitoidrex.bsky.social Entomologist specializing in parasitoid wasps and dark taxa. Leiden, Netherlands.
Charley Eiseman @ceiseman.bsky.social Freelance naturalist, especially into leafminers, sawfly larvae, and other underappreciated herbivorous insects | http://bugtracks.wordpress.com
Clare Blencowe @clareblencowe.bsky.social Field mycologist with a passion for grassland fungi. Interested in the history of mycology. Bang into biological recording. Located in West Sussex, UK.
Brigit Strawbridge @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social Wildlife gardening.. love insects, plants, birds, fungi, grass snakes, trees, moths, rivers, caterpillars & all things wild, especially solitary bees, bumblebees... and Dippers!
Art. Poetry. Cornwall
Author 'Dancing with Bees - a Journey Back to Nature'