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
Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) @bsbibotany.bsky.social Studying, appreciating, recording and conserving our wild plants, and supporting the botanists who care about them.
bsbi.org
#PlantAtlas2020
#100Plants2026
#WildFlowerHour
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Bernoid @bernoid.bsky.social Carpe fungum. Illustrator. Naturalist. Author of Secrets of a Devon Wood https://www.nhbs.com/secrets-of-a-devon-wood-book
Tristan Norton @trisnorton.bsky.social Local Government ecologist, Hampshire, UK.
Essex + Wessex.
BSBI recorder, South Hampshire
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'
Miles Zhang | 张远濛 @ymilesz.bsky.social | Hymenoptera taxonomy, phylogenomics, and evolutionary ecology | inordinate fondness for insect galls
https://ymilesz.github.io/
Neil @uk-wildlife.bsky.social Was @Uk_wildlife + @PondManUK on Twitter
Environmental educator, Wildlife Photographer/filmmaker + Naturalist. I give talks too!
@ukwildlifepodcast.bsky.social Co-host
All opinions my own
Andrew Green @naturespotter.bsky.social Coordinator for Sawfly Recording Scheme of Great Britain. County Recorder of Sawflies for Bedfordshire. sawflies.org.uk
Tim Hodge @tim-hodge.bsky.social Entomology, Birding, Norfolk hoverfly recorder.
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.
Richard Fox @richardfoxbc.bsky.social Head of Science at Butterfly Conservation - moth & butterfly sightings, science & conservation. Honorary Prof at University of Exeter. (He/his)
Owen Beckett @obeckett98.bsky.social Entomologist with the National Biodiversity Data Centre 🐝🐞🦋
Ireland
Charlotte Rankin @bumble-being.bsky.social Big love for invertebrates & wildflowers. Bonkers about #Bumblebees. Enjoys #WildlifeRecording 🐛🐝🔎 Northern England. Insta: charlotte.bumble
Finley Hutchinson @finleyhutchins2.bsky.social Naturalist, entomologist, ecologist and birder. BSc Conservation Biology & Ecology @ Exeter Uni Cornwall but on placement in the Scottish Highlands!
Meg Skinner @megabunus.bsky.social BAS Harvestmen Recording Scheme organiser, invertebrate ecologist and overall bug nerd
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.
Mark Gurney @markgurn.bsky.social I’m here for birds, insects, plants, and kind people. 🏳️🌈 he/him
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. 
Iona Cunningham-Eurich @ionace.bsky.social PhD student at Natural History Museum and University College London working on parasitoids.
Birds, books, insects (although not necessarily in that order)
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
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.
Colliery Spoil Biodiversity Initiative @collieryspoil.bsky.social Nature conservation initiative aiming to raise awareness of the #biodiversity value of #collieryspoil sites (coal tips & former collieries) in South #Wales Valleys and beyond. Posts by @liamolds.bsky.social.
Linda Pryke @pondprodder.bsky.social Surrey (UK)-based Dragonfly nut, fly wrestler, happiest stood in a pond watching the sun rise..
Sandy Knapp @sandyknapp.bsky.social Botanist… taxonomist of potatoes, tomatoes etc. and passionate advocate for nature everywhere 🌱
Lisa Williams @lisawilliams30.bsky.social Wildlife enthusiast and amateur entomologist specialising in bees and flies. Aerialist, vegan, nature girl, music lover. RSPB & Bumblebee conservation volunteer, NBN award finalist 2024.
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/
Jamie Warren @mossmalarkey.bsky.social Lively, Loony ,happy bin man for SDC and Ubico in Stroud Gloucestershire,interested in Botany,Bryology,Mycology and general nature lover 🌿🌼🐛🐝🐿🦌
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.
BENHS @britentsoc.bsky.social British Entomological and Natural History Society
www.benhs.org.uk
JNCC @jncc.bsky.social The UK’s statutory, scientific authority on nature. We work across land & sea for nature, for people & the planet.
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
Tanyptera Project @tanyptera.bsky.social Promoting Invertebrate Recording & Conservation in North West England - Lancashire, Cheshire, Merseyside & Greater Manchester 🐝🐞🕷
https://linktr.ee/TanypteraProject
Rob Edmunds @vc28nature.bsky.social Leafmines/leafmines.co.uk/interested in nature
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
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
Jaswinder Boparai @jasboparai.bsky.social 
John @astrapian.bsky.social Amateur naturalist. Conservationist. Socialist. Suffolk-based.
Seirian Sumner @waspwoman.bsky.social #Behavioural #ecologist; Prof; UCL; weakness for #wasps. Actually, it’s not a weakness.. #Wasplove. Author Endless Forms: Why we should love wasps. http://tinyurl.com/UKwasps #Evolution #Naturewriting #Scicomm #sociality #Genomics
Sean McCann @ibycter.bsky.social Entomologist, sometime arachnologist, natural history enthusiast.
I used study caracaras. I still do, but I used to as well. Avatar by the endlessly talented @blackmudpuppy.bluesky.social
Also, photographer! 
Tristan Bantock @britishbugs.bsky.social Ecologist/Entomologist
Ryan Mitchell @ryan-mitchell.bsky.social Project Manager - Environmental Scientist & Ecologist
Currently living County Sligo, Ireland.
Mia Croft (she/they) @miacroftento.bsky.social PhD Researcher @newcastleuni.bsky.social @ForagingEcology.bsky.social investigating impacts of artifical light at night on ecological networks, using eDNA and nutritional analysis 🧬🔬🌿🐛🐜🪲🦗🦋🪳🐝🐞🕷
Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata @ento-ea.bsky.social Experimental and applied entomology - Scientific journal of the Netherlands Entomological Society @nev.nl with research papers and reviews. #entomology #biocontrol 🪲🦋🪰🐜🐞🐝🪳🦗🦟🐛
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/15707458
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
Harris Clements @harrisclements.bsky.social Amateur natural historian and wildlife recorder. Interested in algae, fungi, vascular plants and invertebrates and wildlife in general. 🌿🍄🐚 Based in England. He/him
BioMongol Foundation @biomongol.bsky.social BioMongol facilitates insect research in Mongolia. We study insect biodiversity in this huge, bio-diverse, land-locked country.
Also, we monitor wetland restoration projects.
Be part of our mission: https://www.biomongol.org/contact
#Entomology #Mongolia
Mick Jones @mickdjones.bsky.social Warden, Dancersend Nature Reserve, Bucks; MBE for conservation work; painter/writer; love beetles, fungi, slime moulds, the Chilterns & Armenia. Refugee from Twitter which used to be so good
Jody Robert @jyrobert.bsky.social Entomology/diptera enthusiast
UK Butterflies @ukbutterflies.bsky.social UK Butterflies is a community website providing comprehensive information on all butterfly species in Britain & Ireland. Posts by Pete Eeles. https://linktr.ee/ukbutterflies
Abigail Lowe @abigaillowe.bsky.social Interdisciplinary Ecologist @ukceh.bsky.social 🌳
Citizen/Community Science 🌍
Prefer things with 6 legs 🐝
Comms officer @bes-communitysci.bsky.social
Cymraes ♥️🏴 Views own ✌🏻
Don Yee @mosquitolab.bsky.social Father, Husband, Prof. ~ Community & Population Ecologist ~BCE~ #mosquitoes #urbanecology #dytiscids #entomology~ All around Science Enthusiast ~ posts are my own
Thomas Shahan @tshahan.bsky.social Spiders! Art?
most active on iNat: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&user_id=tshahan
Morgan Jackson, PhD @bioinfocus.bsky.social Entomologist fascinated by flies (#Diptera), biodiversity & taxonomy. Telling the story of biodiversity, one species at a time. He/Him. Profile pic: Kerascoët
NFBR @nfbr.bsky.social The National Forum for Biological Recording (NFBR) exists to promote the use of biodiversity information for strategic and local needs and to champion the biological recording community across the UK.
Eve H @eveharrow.bsky.social 
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
Mariposa Nature Tours @mariposanature.bsky.social Expert-led butterfly & botany tours
Proud to donate funds to help support the work of conservation organisations Butterfly Conservation Europe, Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland, et al.
https://linktr.ee/mariposanature
Will Langdon @wlangdon12.bsky.social Assistant Conservation Officer for Epping Forest. PhD on the effects of nitrogen pollution on insects, particularly likes butterflies and moths.
Hannah H. Chu @hannahhchu.bsky.social Lecturer @ John Jay College | Entomology PhD (Murillo Lab @ UCR) | ecology/entomology • art • community
Richard Lewington @rlewington2.bsky.social Wildlife illustrator, photographer and invertebrate enthusiast - A Curious Bug-er from Oxfordshire. F.R.E.S. - President of Abingdon Naturalists’ Society
www.richardlewington.co.uk
Erica McAlister @flygirlnhm.bsky.social Dipterist, Entomologist, presenter, author, museum lover
Principal Curator, Flies and fleas, Natural History Museum, London, UK
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.
Martin Harvey @kitenet.bsky.social Mostly insects and biological recording, UK-based (he/him)
https://linktr.ee/kitenet
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.
Ash Whiffin @ashwhiffin.bsky.social 🪲 Entomologist, bonkers about beetles
🏛 Museum Curator
🏴 Usually found turning over logs/stones or poking in dead stuff.
(she/her)
🔗 https://linktr.ee/Ash_Whiffin
Lucy Lapwing @lucylapwing.bsky.social 🍄 Naturalist, wildlife weirdo. Fungus-poker, bug-ogler.
💚Fighting for a world with more WILD in it 👊🏻
🪶RSPB & WWT Ambassador
Jon Dunn @dunnjons.bsky.social Nature writer, photographer, tour leader. FLS.
BSBI Shetland county recorder
‘Obscure rarity’
Author for Basic Books, Bloomsbury Books, Hachette, Princeton University Press
Rep’d: Peters, Fraser & Dunlop
www.jondunn.com
Dan Hoare @djhbutterflies.bsky.social Director of Nature Recovery for Butterfly Conservation @savebutterflies. Naturalist, tree hugger, volunteer bird ringer, Green Runner. Personal account: opinions, puns & misidentifications are mine
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.
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
Ian Beavis @ianbeavis.bsky.social Research Curator at the Amelia, Tunbridge Wells. Entomologist. Natural historian. Local historian. Ecology & heritage of Scilly & the Channel Islands
Ryan Clark @ryanclarkecology.bsky.social Freelance ecologist based in Cumbria, specialising in pollinators. Passionate about insects, biological recording, wildflowers, and bryophytes.
www.euceraecology.co.uk
Dr Will Leo Hawkes @willleohawkes.bsky.social 🪰🐝Doctor of Insect Migration🦋🐞
🏴 Cofiwch y pethau bach
Conservation assistant at Buglife
⛰️Most content up a mountain
Mike Ashworth @entmikeashworth.bsky.social Amateur entomologist, dipterist, insect photographer, environmentalist, lapsed morris dancer, retired high-performance computing specialist, located in south-east Somerset, 🇬🇧
George Tordoff @gmtord.bsky.social Moth botherer and county bryophyte recorder for Glamorgan
Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social Interested in history, earth science, biology. Avatar is a beach cusp on the beach near my home, an arc pattern of sand and flint shingle.
Matt P @bertolicus.bsky.social Plant-based runner prone to long distance silliness, paddler, sourdough baker, lazy gardener, slave to a house-wolf and wannabe botanist 🌲🐺🌱🏃♂️🏳️🌈
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
Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social Research Ecologist working on birds, mammals, forests, farms, hedgerows, woodland natural colonisation. Marsh Tit & Wood Warbler studies. Editor-in-Chief of the journal Bird Study: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/tbis20
Views are mine.
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
Matt Bertone @bertonemyia.bsky.social Entomologist passionate about flies, beetles, spiders, mites... Also macro photography. Director & diagnostician at NC State Plant Disease and Insect Clinic. Opinions are my own. He/him
Raleigh, NC, USA
https://www.flickr.com/photos/76790273@N07/
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. 
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
Stuart Roberts FLS @eucera.bsky.social Bee specialist (not honey bees) and ecologist, Irish/UK dual national, humanist, optimist, Europhile
Torsten Dikow @tdikow.bsky.social biodiversity researcher - discovering fly species - deciphering their evolutionary history - natural history collections + digitization + data - #asiloidflies - deserts - photography - views mine
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4816-2909
Adrian Dutton @nottscoleoptera.bsky.social Paid to hunt Beetles, what more could a man want from a working life?
David Notton @davidnotton.bsky.social Mad about diapriid wasps/bees 🐝taxonomy, zoological nomenclature, museums, entomology curation & IPM! Former NHMUK, now freelance. Recording Lauriston Agroecology Farm🌾🥕 🏴🇪🇺 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David-Notton #Edinburgh
David Gibbs @davidjgibbs.bsky.social General naturalist, survey entomologist specialising in Diptera and Hymenoptera. World birder but mainly doing plants and fungi at moment.
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 🌈
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
Steph Skipp @stephskipp.bsky.social 
James McCulloch @jamesimcc.bsky.social Evolutionary genomics PhD student at the Wellcome Sanger Institute/University of Cambridge. National recorder for springtails. Evolutionary biology, entomology, taxonomy, natural history...
https://www.sanger.ac.uk/person/mcculloch-james/
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
Liam Andrews @pseudoliam.bsky.social Birder, Ecologist, Entomologist, Pseudoscorpions.
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
James Lowen Wildlife @jameslowenwild.bsky.social Naturalist, author, editor, photographer, surveyor. Written 17 books, won two awards, but happiest when avoiding the computer. Norfolk. jameslowen.com 
Judy Webb @judywebb.bsky.social Ecologist, Palynologist (pollen expert) quite good at Botany, Entomology & Mycology. Conservationist. Ex School Teacher, Ex Forensic Scientist.
Keiron Derek Brown @earthwormuk.bsky.social 🪱 Worm nerd and naturalist | Biological Recording Company | Earthworm Society | London Natural History Society 🧪
🇬🇧 Cumbrian living in London 🏳️🌈
Gavin Broad @gavinbroad.bsky.social Wasps. Curator at the Natural History Museum. Opinions my own, unless they’re wrong.