Specialist in baseline surveying and subsequent monitoring of invertebrates in the farmed environment. Bees, wasps, other pollinators and IPM species recorded.
Joined June 2024
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David Basham retweeted
24 Aug 2025
@BC_Suffolk @savebutterflies @DefraNature @herdyshepherd1 @NFFNUK @stuttonsparrows @NoFarmsNoFoods @davidwjgill @StevenFalk1 @FarmInvertsUK @FWAGeast @SWTWildFarms @CotonBuzz
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8 Aug 2025
From an inland Suffolk farm countryside stewardship grassy/flowery field option. Got another 1 to look at properly but in the meantime B. humilis or not??
@StevenFalk1
@BumblebeeTrust
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8 Aug 2025
Worker specimen I took is Bombus humilis so confirmed for site. @StevenFalk1 have you noticed range expansion this year for it?
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7 Aug 2025
Pair of Tachina magnicornis males from farmland at Great Tey, Essex yesterday. Plenty of Stomorhina onsite as well.
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6 Aug 2025
Stomorrhina lunata Locust Blowfly from Great Tey in Essex today. Male and female present.
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David Basham retweeted
22 Jul 2025
"Lawrence (1954) found that, on average, each cowpat produced 1,000 developing insects. Assuming each cow produced 6 suitable pats per day, this was equivalent to 6,000 insects per day, 2.2 million insects per year for each cow kept outside all year-round" #biodiversity #cows
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20 Jul 2025
#urbansafari Plenty going on in Ipswich this afternoon when the rain cleared. Anthidium manicatum, Cerceris rybyensis in cop, Bombus pascuorum, Comm Blue, Br Argus, Gatekeeper and Philanthus from 'new' estate drainage reedbed and 'greenspace'.
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20 Jul 2025
3 butterfly species sheltering in the rough grassland, a much under appreciated resource. At least 5 Common Blue plus Brown Argus & Gatekeeper.
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20 Jul 2025
Calling male Turtle Dove at Clopton yesterday afternoon. First I've heard out that way for probably 10 years. Do they call from what they consider suitable nesting areas?
@GrahamDenny9
@stuttonsparrows
@SWTWildFarms
@SaveTurtleDoves
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21 May 2025
Another badger-predated Bombus nest. Hortorum last week in Dorset. This week pratorum in Suffolk. Badgers ⬆️ Bees ⬇️. It can't not follow.
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David Basham retweeted
17 May 2025
So this week in the world of farm/environment/land management/ mapping has been “interesting”
And by “interesting” I mean “verging on the utterly bonkers”
Why? Well this week started with Natural England, the government body that looks after the environment launching a new map.
12 May 2025
England’s most detailed peat map is here! 🌱
Peatlands store carbon, clean water, and protect against flooding. This new map helps us better protect them.
naturalengland.blog.gov.uk/2…
Watch the video to learn more.
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16 May 2025
Walking by the Dorset Stour this am. Noticeable lack of terrestrial insects. Lots of odonata but hardly anything on the umbells or Hawthorn. Maybe bcs it gets regularly flooded? It's v dry, so no nectar? Idk. 1 prat nest, few hort and pasc, few flies. More stuff in Graham's yard!
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9 Apr 2025
Andrena male. No genal spine, red sternites, long mandibles with perhaps just the slightest hint of extra tooth. Rear tarsi also noticeably pale with similar colour to tibia end. He just looks different to the scotica males (they're from a different but fairly nearby site). 3/3
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9 Apr 2025
A. scotica. No problems with him. No genal spine, dark sternites, short bidentate mandibles. 2/3
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5 Apr 2025
My office this week has been spectacular. Many thanks to all the landowners involved.
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2 Apr 2025
Think I need my hand holding. I've keyed this out 2x to varians but I've never seen a female before. This will be about 3rd confirmed 'modern' Suffolk site for it so I need to be sure it is. Features all fit OK but ab seems a bit paler haired than expected.
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David Basham retweeted
28 Mar 2025
If you care about our seas and the fish that swim in them, don't miss @countryslidepod this week with our truly superb guest Mike Warner from @PassionSeafood. He is the finest advocate for sustainable eating I have met. The episode goes live at 18.30
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7 Mar 2025
Over-wintering critters. Managed uncut, ungrazed area on meadow on left. Cut and sheep-grazed main meadow on right, 10m from 1st site. 30 seconds sweep netting yesterday. 150 plays 20.
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