Heath Snail, Knapweed Broomrape, Field Fleawort, and Bastard-toadflax and it's specialist shieldbug Canthophorus impressus on Therfield Heath, Herts today #Pan-speciesListing

Nice day in the Brecks yesterday! #Pan-speciesListing

A bit of an oddity in St Neots today, the fourth Cambridgeshire record of Yellow Dodder (Cuscuta campestris)! #Pan-speciesListing

A few nice finds from Woodwalton Fen, Cambs this week: the King Diving Beetle Dytiscus dimidiatus, the ant-mimic jumping spider Synageles venator, and (reintroduced) Fen Violet! #Pan-speciesListing

Premier Inn didn't even charge me extra to get a room that came with springtails! This Willowsia buski was in the sink, a new species for me #Collembola #Pan-speciesListing

Yellow Star-of-Bethlehem, Goshawks, Rock Snails, and Painted Woodlice were nice to see in the sunshine in Coates, Gloucestershire today #Pan-speciesListing

Another day, another fish. This time a Bleak that I managed to catch from the Ouse in Huntingdon before my pond net broke! #Pan-speciesListing #YearofFish

It's been great to spend a few days at Wicken Fen looking at springtails and mites. We found a great variety including two mites that will be new to Britain (when Matthew has ID'd them!) #Pan-speciesListing

There are only a few British records of the springtail Neonaphorura duboscqi so I was pleased to extract several from mixed deciduous/pine leaf litter at RSPB Hope Farm recently. The six anal spines are distinctive but not easy to see! #Pan-speciesListing

A day out in Manea with the Cambs BSBI group today. Pictured are Foliage Beet growing as a weed of a Beet crop and Pumpkins (Cucurbita pepo) persisting in a cereal crop. A Whinchat, a Stonechat, and 7 Ruff among Lapwings were the best of the birds @cambsbirdclub.bsky.social #Pan-speciesListing

Fringed Water-lily and Gudgeon were both new to me on a short walk along the River Ouse in Huntingdon after work today #Pan-speciesListing #YearofFish

It was good to see Hyloniscus riparius on the banks of the Avon near Evesham today. It's a new arrival in Britain so far only known from this stretch of river. My fourth record of Trichoniscoides albidus was a nice bonus! #Pan-speciesListing
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Second, the non-native slug Arion vulgaris found on an early morning bird survey. Confirmed by dissecting out the genitalia and opening the oviduct to reveal an elongate, un-fringed ligula! #Pan-speciesListing

Oxyloma sarsii is supposed to be a rare species of broadland and fen but it turns out to be abundant at this dual carriageway mitigation pit in Cambs! Always worth double checking these things #Pan-speciesListing