@theveggrowerpod.bsky.social @theveggrowerpod.bsky.social
Quakers in Britain @quaker.org.uk Faith community grounded in stillness. We believe in working together to create a more just, equal and peaceful world.
Quakers in Britain, Friends House, NW1 2BJ.
www.quaker.org.uk
ForcesWatch @forceswatch.bsky.social ๐๏ธโ๐จ๏ธA sharp eye on military power in the UK.
https://linktr.ee/forceswatch
Bromsgrove @bromsgrove.bsky.social Bromsgrove is a small town in North East Worcestershire, UK (population 99,200 at the 2021 census).
Were mentioned in the Domesday Book. Find out more here: https://opendomesday.org/place/SO9570/bromsgrove/
Bromsgrove Rugby Football Club @bromsgroverugby.bsky.social Bromsgrove RFC is a small town club founded in 1872. Playing in Regional 1 Midlands (England level 5) and providing rugby for all ages and standards. Why not come and join us.
(Account independently held with permission, on behalf of the club.)
Worcestershire County Cricket Club @worcestershireccc.bsky.social
Worcestershire @ukworcestershire.bsky.social News and updates from the county of #Worcestershire, UK - we originally started this service on another app in 2012 and now here on Bluesky
English Folk Dance and Song Society @efdss.bsky.social The national organisation for folk music, song and dance in England. Based at Cecil Sharp House
Angeline Morrison @angelcakepie2.bsky.social Feral folk singer, lover of stone circles, ancestral voices, folk tales, the wyrd and the eerie.
โImagine if Broadcastโs Trish Keenan had been kidnapped at birth by The Copper Family and raised on a diet of Angela Carterโs folk talesโ (KLOFmag)
Lady Nade @ladynade.bsky.social ๐Nade as in Lemonade
๐Award-Winning Singer-Songwriter
๐ถ Pre-order my new album Identity out Oct 2nd ๐ถ https://linktr.ee/ladynade?
Cara Dillon @caradillonsings.bsky.social Irish singer - โComing Homeโ Album & debut Book out now
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@jackieoates.bsky.social @jackieoates.bsky.social
Jim Moray @jimmoray.bsky.social Folk singing and guitar man. http://linktr.ee/jimmoray
Gwenifer Raymond @gweniferraymond.bsky.social Guitar convincer. Banjo thumber. Primitive Welsh composer.
EU/UK bookings:
andy@earth-agency.com
North America bookings:
josh@crossovertouring.com
๐ท Sveinn Nifl ๐ท ๐ฎ๐ธ Landscape and nature photos @svenninifl.bsky.social A photographer and poet. I like sharing photos form Iceland my home country.
#Pictureandpoem
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/
Rob Stephens @tillingtonchum.bsky.social Nature watching poodle companion. Mothing and wildlife gardening enthusiast.
Rob Yaxley @robyaxley.bsky.social Naturalist: lichens, moths, beetles, bugs and anything else that catches my eye. โWhat is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.โ
James Emerson @norwichbirder.bsky.social Naturalist living in Norfolk (UK) - particularly interested in birds, fungi, psyllids and shieldbugs (also real ale, Forteana etc) Local patch = Whitlingham C.P. and the wider Norwich area.
Sporadically updated blog: http://jamesbirdsandbeer.blogspot.com/
Graeme Lyons @graemelyons.bsky.social Freelance entomologist specialising in reserve management, conservation grazing, rewilding & farming. 2nd place pan-species listing. Spiders. Bugs. Grew up below poverty line. AuDHD. Writing this https://pelagicpublishing.com/products/pan-species-listing
Andy Musgrove @andymus.bsky.social All-taxa naturalist, on a journey to understand what biodiversity really means. Freelance ecological consultant. Norfolk Sawfly Recorder. BUBO founder. Pan-species Lister.
DB @arnoldtortoise.bsky.social Amateur naturalist - parasitic wasps (and other tiny insects) specialising in UK Trichogrammatidae and Mymaridae. All posts are my own finds, and all are found in Sussex (unless otherwise stated).
Proud supporter of the RNLI.
Jim Horsfall @jimhorsfall.bsky.social A naturalist, conservationist, Yorkshireman, father and more. A slacker who can't sit still.
Particularly interested in plants, water beetles, fungi and moths.
Prone to spelling mistakes.
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.
Ian Beavis @ianbeavis.bsky.social Research Curator at the Amelia, Tunbridge Wells. Entomologist. Natural historian. Local historian. Ecology & heritage of Scilly & the Channel Islands
Ian Andrews @suillia.bsky.social Flies/sawflies mostly; mostly from Yorkshire, UK.
Run the UK Heleomyzid Recording Scheme...
https://dipterists.org.uk/heleomyzid-scheme/home
...and Yorkshire County Recorder for Sawflies
https://www.ynu.org.uk/recording-sections/sections/insects/sawflies
Andrew Green @naturespotter.bsky.social Coordinator for Sawfly Recording Scheme of Great Britain. County Recorder of Sawflies for Bedfordshire. sawflies.org.uk
George Tordoff @gmtord.bsky.social Moth botherer and county bryophyte recorder for Glamorgan
Ireland's Incredible Invertebrates! @microwild.bsky.social TL;DR: All things about Irish insects and invertebrates.
An Irish naturalist sharing experiences, education and enthusiasm.
Harvestman validator for the National Biodiversity Data Centre.
Founder of https://microwild.org
Call me: Brian
Andrew Douglas @andydouglas1967.bsky.social Spiders, inverts, botany, birds, wine, beer, food, pottery, aircraft. Not necessarily in that order. See @andydouglas1967-IT.bsky.social for IT/Computer Science stuff. West Norfolk and South Northamptonshire.
Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social Freelance botanist / plant ecologist / naturalist - supporting nature recovery in Cambs and Lincs. Keen photographer sharing stories and images from the natural world. BSBI recorder for South Lincolnshire and leader for Wildlife Travel.
Andy Symes @andysymes.bsky.social Up the hill past 694
At the stone wall make a left.
Richard Moyse @kentgrasshoppers.bsky.social Kent-based naturalist, with a particular affection for plants, Orthopterans, aculeates, birds. Retired after a career in conservation. I'm here for wildlife, but can't promise not to repost the occasional political piece.
Rhona Watson @seawaves.bsky.social Librarian and naturalist. Interested in all wildlife, particularly in lepidoptera and biological recording. Cambridge Natural History Society.
Sam Thomas @sjthomasbotany.bsky.social Naturalist, botanist and entomologist. He/him.
England Officer @bsbibotany.bsky.social views my own
Dave Appleton @applewildlife.bsky.social Interested in pretty much any wildlife, especially birds, moths and a host of other insect groups. Norfolk county recorder for lacewings and allied insects.
Based in North Elmham, Norfolk, UK.
Dave Brice @davebriceflies.bsky.social Fascinated by insects, especially flies, studies Sphaeroceridae. Diptera identification services, morphological illustrations, and high-quality imaging. Bespoke identification training is also available.
Martin Harvey @kitenet.bsky.social Mostly insects and biological recording, UK-based (he/him)
https://linktr.ee/kitenet
AJCann @ajcann.bsky.social Gentleman Scientist, ancora imparo.
Trustee of NatureSpot: https://www.naturespot.org
LLPS Natural History Section: https://www.leicesterlitandphil.org.uk/Natural-History-Section
#Arachnids #Bugs #Environment #Hemiptera #Hymenoptera #Leicester
Natalie ๐ฆ @natsabin.bsky.social A bat specialist ecologist in the UK ๐ฆ. I'm also a botanist, a birder, a gamer, a cat and baby servant, a gardener, a feminist, a nerd, a naturalist, an ADHDer, and a curious human. Host of Across The Ages sweary history podcast. Distracts others.
@wrennaturalist.bsky.social @wrennaturalist.bsky.social A naturalist interested in moths, particularly the early stages of micro moths. Also birds, galls, flies and lichens, in fact pretty much everything in the natural world
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
Tristan Norton @trisnorton.bsky.social Local Government ecologist, Hampshire, UK.
Essex + Wessex.
BSBI recorder, South Hampshire
Brian Eversham @brianecambs.bsky.social Wildlife enthusiast, photographer, elms/lichens/beetles/molluscs/protozoa and much else. CEO of Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire, occasional leader for Wildlife Travel, visiting prof., Cranfield Uni. Views my own. He/him
James Gilbert @jamesgilbertmr.bsky.social Naturalist, ecologist, writer.
โHow pleasant it would be each day to think, Today I have done something that will render future generations more happy." Richard Jefferies, 1883.
Location: east Northamptonshire, UK.
Pond Watcher @watcherpond.bsky.social Interested in natural history, particularly ponds. Yorkshire based.
Liz Goodyear @lizgoodyear.bsky.social Butterflies, moths, boats and railways. Based in Hertfordshire. Can you see the Swallowtail in my banner image?
Denise Wawman @denisewawman.bsky.social Bird ringer. Birder. UK Hippoboscidae Recorder (flat flies/louse flies/keds). Former NHS GP, studying flat flies & keds role as vectors and avian diseases. Bird related side projects. Natural history. Based in Oxford and on Exmoor.
Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social Nature conservation. Low carbon living. Classical music and opera. Theatre and books. Gruesome lefty vegan tree-hugger. ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ ally. Happiest when muddy.
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themarshtit.com
Mike Hetherington @mikemoths.bsky.social Moths, birds, herps & other wildlife. My own photos.
Dorset, UK or travelling.
MSc Biological Recording
Dorset Moths https://www.dorsetmoths.co.uk/
Wildlife blog https://vitrealis.blogspot.com/
FSC Associate Tutor
RSPB, BTO & ARC volunteer.
Dr Marcus Rhodes @marcusrhodes.bsky.social Ecologist in pursuit of butterflies. Postdoc at the University of Exeter, Cornwall working on nature recovery and species' responses to climate change. Chair of Cornwall Butterfly Conservation. He/Him
Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social Natural Science Curator. Natural History, particularly fungi, Museums, Heritage & Art
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lukaslarge/
Duerden Cormack @duerden.bsky.social Glos pan-species lister living in Cambs. Research Assistant at RSPB Hope Farm.
https://panspecieslisting.com/view-list.html?list_id=50250
Adrian Dutton @nottscoleoptera.bsky.social Paid to hunt Beetles, what more could a man want from a working life?
Simon Knott @sjbknott.bsky.social Birds, Chess, Coleoptera, Flora, Moths, R&I, Syrphidae, Stratiomyidae et al.
Slowly rewilding Herts garden & trying to photograph its fauna & flora.
Vanna Bartlett @vannabartlett.bsky.social Artist, naturalist, author, cyclist. Loves insects/invertebrates especially solitary bees & harvestmen. County Recorder for Harvestmen and Pseudoscorpions. Hefted to Norfolk.
Website https://arthropedia.co.uk/
Liam Crowley @liamcrowley.bsky.social Entomology and ecologist. Currently a post doctoral research associate at the University of Oxford. Interested in wasps, bees, species ID, biodiversity monitoring and pollination ecology.
Owen Beckett @obeckett98.bsky.social Entomologist with the National Biodiversity Data Centre ๐๐๐ฆ
Ireland
Richard Wilson @ecology-digest.bsky.social #Invertebrate ecologist; CIEEM & RoyEntSoc member.
British Arachnological Society & Yorks. Naturalists' Union & NE England #spider recorder.
Occasional tweets on biodiversity policy.
Moira O'Donnell @naturelark.bsky.social Fae Dundee ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ but now in South London. Choral singing, botany, butterflies, birds, wee beasties, crochet, cups of tea, G&T. Larking about in nature. Ooh look, there's a thing... ๐ค
#WildflowerHour
All my posts from X came too.
https://linktr.ee/naturelark
Jo Parmenter @jo-the-botanist.bsky.social Norfolk-based consultant ecologist (semi-retired, in order to spend more time looking at plants). Hobbies/Interests: looking at plants. Oh, & I cook things, too (mainly plants). #BSBI VC28 Jt Recorder. Woke Lefty.
Need help with a plant? Try #WildFlowerID
Theresa Burt @burt15theresa.bsky.social Professor of Animal Behaviour, Department of Biology, University of Oxford. St Johnโs College. Researches navigation, spatial cognition. Happiest outdoors.
Reuben Singleton @bordersnaturalist.bsky.social ๐Peebles, Scottish Borders - Director of Tweed Ecology - 35 years experience of protected species/habitat surveys, Ecological Impact Assessment, Ecological Clerk of Works. Botany, Lepidoptera.
VC40Ladybirds ๐ @vc40ladybirds.bsky.social Ladybird CR for Shropshire & National iRecord verifier - co-author of 'Micro ladybirds of Britain and Ireland: https://shorturl.at/gXsQp and Micro Ladybirds of Shropshire guide: https://shorturl.at/DivpW #VC40Ladybirds
Rockwolf ๐ช๐บ @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
Annie Irving @sconzani.bsky.social Walker, birder, butterflier, leaf-fossicker, knitter, genealogist
Daily nature blog : earthstar.blog
Blog of my travels & fascinations : sconzani.blogspot.com
Vic Brown @viccbrown.bsky.social Entomologist/Ecologist/Birder/Cook/Grandad.
All photographs my own, unless credited.
Terry & Judy Wood @tandjwood.bsky.social Recorders & photographers all types of wildlife but especially Dragons & Damsels, Bees, Butterflies, Hovers, Bugs, Wasps, Flies, Moths, Birds, Mammals, etc, etc. Have a wildlife friendly (very!) garden in Northants. Also love travel, music, art & lots more
Helen Bennett ๐ฟ @helenbennett.bsky.social Nature lover & trying, in my own small way, to conserve & protect it! Passionate about habitat creation & gardening for ALL wildlife.
Oh yes, I'm a nature photographer & I paint too! : ))
For my images, see Media โฌ๏ธ ยฉ From South East, England, UK
Jeremy Bartlett @jeremybartlett.bsky.social Botanist, mycologist, cyclist and gardener based in Norwich, UK. Wildlife, especially insects and other invertebrates. Author of Jeremy Bartlett's "Let It Grow" blog, https://www.jeremybartlett.co.uk.
TrevorTheBotanist @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social Botanist, conservationist, gardener & author. Endlessly curious about green things. Creator of #NoMowMay.
Author of โUrban Plantsโ (Bloomsbury British Wildlife Collection). Currently with the Species Recovery Trust & BSBI Trustee.
Ian Senior @ians4ad.bsky.social 4AD nut, shoegazer, ex Plant Biologist now Web Developer at Oxford Uni. Committee Member of the Friend's of Earlham Cemetery. Fungi botherer & flora finder with some of Norfolks best botanists & field mycologists
Mastodon: @ians4AD@mas.to
Twitter: @Ians4AD
Keiron Derek Brown @earthwormuk.bsky.social ๐ชฑ Worm nerd and naturalist | Biological Recording Company | Earthworm Society | London Natural History Society ๐งช
๐ฌ๐ง Cumbrian living in London ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
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. ๐๐ชฑ๐ชฒ๐ท๏ธ๐๐ชผ๐ฆ
Posts by Keiron Derek Brown
Charlotte Rankin @bumble-being.bsky.social Big love for invertebrates & wildflowers. Bonkers about #Bumblebees. Enjoys #WildlifeRecording ๐๐๐ Northern England. Insta: charlotte.bumble
Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social Birding, Botany & all round wildlife bothering, with a scattering of LFC & music.
Time consumed by fatherhood.
Scouse Lefty ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐
Flickr: https://flickr.com/photos/33376309@N05
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@southliverpoolbirder?si=ECCbrh4EYs1KFCPU
Tim Hodge @tim-hodge.bsky.social Entomology, Birding, Norfolk hoverfly recorder.
Ben Lewis @benlewisuk.bsky.social Birder, Moth-er, I have an interest in all wildlife and its identification, Pan species lister (newbie), Manager of fen and wetland habitats. Gardener, fishing, father, husband, Jack Russell owner, weather enthusiastโฆ
Keith Balmer @keithbalmer.bsky.social Bedfordshire County Recorder for Butterflies http://bedsbutterflies.org.uk
UK insects, macro photography, UK wildlife conservation.
Volunteer with @wildlifebcn.bsky.social & https://www.thehigginsbedford.org.uk
https://keithbalmer.com/
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
Wil J. Heeney @theponker.bsky.social Naturalist, all taxa biological recorder. Longhorn Recording Scheme. ColSoc. RIP NoFX. Be happy.
A self-employed Freelance Entomologist, wait, is that a beetle...
Finley Hutchinson @finleyhutchins2.bsky.social Naturalist, entomologist, ecologist and birder. BSc Conservation Biology & Ecology @ Exeter Uni Cornwall but on placement in the Scottish Highlands!
Ash Whiffin @ashwhiffin.bsky.social ๐ชฒ Entomologist, bonkers about beetles
๐ Museum Curator
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ Usually found turning over logs/stones or poking in dead stuff.
(she/her)
๐ https://linktr.ee/Ash_Whiffin
Neil Fletcher @neilmoths.bsky.social Interested in recording any species I can identify, mostly insects, particularly interested in Ichneumonoidea. I submit those records and keep a list of what I've seen (Pan-Species Lister).
Anthony Speca | Aspen Ecology @aspenecology.com Lichen surveying, consultancy, training and education. County Lichen Recorder for Suffolk. Posts mainly about lichens, and occasionally other life-forms, especially if they're overlooked. Rocks now and then, too. Founder @anthonyspeca.bsky.social.
Rory Dimond @rdimond.bsky.social Environmental charity worker, wildlife gardener, author and volunteer. Avid entomology enthusiast. Mostly speaks about the smaller thigs (bees, wasps, flies, spiders etc.) on my local patch. He/Him.
@richardcomont.bsky.social @richardcomont.bsky.social
Dr Anke Marsh @ankemarsh.bsky.social Palaeoecology, natural history, science, flora, fauna, microfossils. Researcher, writer, editor, photographer, and crocheter apparently, she/her
Blog: https://www.marshscapes.online/
Online shop: https://marshscapes.teemill.com
Daniel Blyton @invertdan.bsky.social Pan species lister based in North Essex, exploring all taxa since 2018 - making good progress in some, barely scratching the surface in others.
Cranefly Recorder for Essex.
Obsessed moth / non-moth trapper.
Mark Skevington๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ข @whetstoneskev.bsky.social Amateur naturalist. Leics. & Rutland VC55 CMR. Moths; all taxa PSL; reformed twitcher; LCFC; known to dabble with synthesizers. All photos/videos I post are my own unless stated. https://skevsblog.blogspot.com/
https://www.youtube.com/@Skevdig
Dan Brown @danbrownnature.bsky.social Naturalist & Wildlife Addict
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Happiest Outdoors
Founder: http://www.Wild-Discovery.com (the best wildlife watching company - iโm biased)
Expedition Leader & Lecturer
Photographer (OM1) & Author
Rach Bicker @rachbicker.bsky.social Scrubland Project Officer. Ecology & Biodiversity consultant. Biological recorder, film fan, bag in the wind. Trustee for MFGWP. She/her
Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social Plant obsessive, restoration ecologist and science communicator ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Andy Marquis @andym105.bsky.social Entomologist and pan-species lister based in Guernsey, Channel Islands.
Current Section Secretary of Entomology at La Sociรฉtรฉ Guernesiaise https://societe.org.gg/.
Website at http://www.guernseywildlife.co.uk, working on an upgrade as I type this...
Bill Urwin @oldbilluk.bsky.social Interested in all things Natural History. Retired and volunteering for Avalon Marshes partners in Somerset. Member of RoAM, (Recorders of the Avalon Marshes) https://roam-somerset.org.uk. At present, doing a lot of DNA barcoding of fungi and lichens.
Matt Livesey @mlivesey.bsky.social Conservationist; wildlife photographer and countryside-lover. Photographs represented by RSPB Images. Cambridgeshire.
https://www.mattliveseyphotography.com/
Views my own.
Mark Gurney @markgurn.bsky.social Iโm here for birds, insects, plants, and kind people. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ he/him
Per Smiseth @persmiseth.bsky.social Behavioural ecologist @ University of Edinburgh. Parental care & family conflict, inbreeding. Biological recording & natural history in cemeteries, burial grounds & churchyards.
Josh @joshecology.bsky.social Exploring local wildlife and beyond with a focus on invertebrates and invasive species.
Ecologist, conservationist, macro photographer.
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Belfast-based
Simon Harding @simon-ontheverge.bsky.social Wildlife curious nature nerd, Fungi, Botany, Bugs, Birds and Stuff. Wildlife gardening. Looking forward to having more time