Galling, @galling.bsky.social The British Plant Gall Society Bluesky feed. See also our X feed @britgalls, our Facebbok site, British Plant Galls (in association with BPGS), and our website britishplantgallsociety.org
Team Diptera 🪰🔍🦟🌻 @teamdiptera.bsky.social Dedicated to showing off the most ecologically diverse super radiation of animals 🪰 🦟 🧬🔬
https://linktr.ee/team_diptera?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=635d7c5f-a1d5-4d54-8010-6d736486a417
Gavin Broad @gavinbroad.bsky.social Wasps. Curator at the Natural History Museum. Opinions my own, unless they’re wrong.
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.
Alan Bradbury @alanbradbury.bsky.social Amature entomologist and professional software developer; the order is important.
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.
Mike Ashworth @entmikeashworth.bsky.social Amateur entomologist, dipterist, insect photographer, environmentalist, lapsed morris dancer, retired high-performance computing specialist, located in south-east Somerset, 🇬🇧
BENHS @britentsoc.bsky.social British Entomological and Natural History Society
www.benhs.org.uk
Matthew Harrow @mattharrow.bsky.social Entomologist with a heavy focus on Diptera!
www.entomologica.co.uk
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
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
Andy Marquis @andym105.bsky.social Entomologist and pan-species lister based in Guernsey, Channel Islands.
Current Section Secretary of Entomology at La Société Guernesiaise https://societe.org.gg/.
Website at http://www.guernseywildlife.co.uk, working on an upgrade as I type this...
Stuart Roberts FLS @eucera.bsky.social Bee specialist (not honey bees) and ecologist, Irish/UK dual national, humanist, optimist, Europhile
Ryan Mitchell @ryan-mitchell.bsky.social Project Manager - Environmental Scientist & Ecologist
Currently living County Sligo, Ireland.
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...
Jaswinder Boparai @jasboparai.bsky.social
Dave Goulson @davegoulson.bsky.social Scientist, specializing in bumblebees. Author of various books about insects. Trying to save the planet one bee at a time.
Tristan Bantock @britishbugs.bsky.social Ecologist/Entomologist
Nigel Jones @lancefly.bsky.social Entomologist. Obsessed with flies. Keen on wasps and bees. Enjoy other insects, birdsong, finding places free of cars and dogwalkers. I don't look much like my avatar image anymore. Love a pint or two of a well served pale ale in a cosy pub with no tv.
Dipterists Society @dipterists.bsky.social Our mission is to advance the scientific study, understanding, and appreciation of the insect order Diptera, or true flies.
dipterists.org
Paul Beuk @muscapaul.bsky.social Dipterist and professional nitpicker
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.
Tylan Berry @tylanberry.bsky.social Spiders. It's all about the spiders.
Cornwall, UK 〓〓
Daniel Whitmore @dwhitmore79.bsky.social Diptera Curator at Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart | Editor-in-Chief of @integsyst.bsky.social and The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature
Tim Strudwick @timstrudwick.bsky.social Norfolk UK based former nature reserve manager, bee and wasp county recorder, biodiversity obsessive, allotmenteer, stuff like that.
Carrion Beetle Recording Scheme @carrionbeetlesuk.bsky.social The Carrion Beetle Recording Scheme - Promoting the recording of #CarrionBeetles in the U.K. 🔎
http://www.coleoptera.org.uk/silphidae/home
British Dragonfly Society @britishdragonflies.bsky.social
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
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.
Vic Brown @viccbrown.bsky.social Entomologist/Ecologist/Birder/Cook/Grandad.
All photographs my own, unless credited.
The Coleopterists Society of Britain and Ireland @colsocbi.bsky.social A society promoting, researching and recording the 4,000+ beetle species on Britain and Ireland. 🪲 Events, field meetings and networking...🪲🪲
Website: https://www.colsoc.org/
Tanyptera Project @tanyptera.bsky.social Promoting Invertebrate Recording & Conservation in North West England - Lancashire, Cheshire, Merseyside & Greater Manchester 🐝🐞🕷
https://linktr.ee/TanypteraProject
Martin Harvey @kitenet.bsky.social Mostly insects and biological recording, UK-based (he/him)
https://linktr.ee/kitenet
UK Muscidae & Fanniidae Study Group @ukmuscidae.bsky.social Informal group dedicated to promoting interest among UK dipterists, entomologists, general naturalists and the public in the Muscidae & Fanniidae.
https://dipterists.org.uk/muscidae-group/home
Erica McAlister @flygirlnhm.bsky.social Dipterist, Entomologist, presenter, author, museum lover
Principal Curator, Flies and fleas, Natural History Museum, London, UK
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
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
Ground Beetle Recording Scheme @carabidaeuk.bsky.social Going to ground then emerging into blue skies
The UK ground beetle (Carabidae) recording scheme
Records to http://brc.ac.uk/iRecord
https://www.coleoptera.org.uk/recording-schemes
Soldierflies and Allies Recording Scheme @uk-soldierflies.bsky.social Soldierflies, Horseflies, Robberflies, Bee-flies, Snipeflies, Stiletto-flies, Hunchback-flies, Water-snipeflies, Awl-flies, Windowflies and Wood-soldierflies - info & ID guides: https://dipterists.org.uk/soldierflies-allies-scheme/home
Chris Raper @chrisraper.bsky.social Entomologist/Dipterist (Tachinidae), ukiyo-e/yakusha-e (mainly Kunichika), fountain pen enthusiast, ancient Chinese coins, warden at Hartslock SSSI, manager of UKSI at the Natural History Museum, London
Bluesky @bsky.app official Bluesky account (check username👆)
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