RJM Pendragon

Zoology with Entomology (Hons) student at HAU. Founder of Harper Adams Biological Society.

[Animal Planet @AnimalPlanet]

This colorful sea slug is popularly known as the Spanish dancer 💃

That’s a lot easier to say than their scientific name, Hexabranchus sanguineus.

📹: @ kotravellers

#VOTD #VideoOfTheDay

[Josie Mahony PhD @josemahose]

I've just signed @friends_earth's open letter telling the government to reject plans for a new oil field in the Cambo Field. If we're serious about addressing the #ClimateCrisis we can't approve any new fossil fuel projects. https://t.co/gGRCddtBCG

[RJM Pendragon @EngineeredSpace]

And from that day on, she sang this to every fly agaric she happened upon 🍄

[RJM Pendragon @EngineeredSpace]

Peregrine falcon fledgling in Stafford town centre!

[🦔 Dr Nicky Hunter 💚 @Wildlifehunter]

Red squirrels and pine martens could lose protection in UK review, say experts | Wildlife | The Guardian.
This is worrying! ⁦@CIEEMnet⁩ ⁦@Mammal_Society⁩ ⁦@ARGroupsUK⁩ https://t.co/FqBnxxgSro

[RJM Pendragon @EngineeredSpace]

@MilesBinnie @flygirlNHM would you mind taking a look please? 😊

[Cuan Wildlife Rescue @CuanWildlife]

1/3
Please help if you can...

https://t.co/WJmoLFG1ZV

We have created a JustGiving campaign to raise funds to build a new badger rehabilitation pen which the cubs will use prior to their release
We currently only have 2 of these pens, but with 24 cubs in care, we desperately

[Landing Light @ThieJalloo]

These beautiful elm trees, creating one of the last elm tunnels in Europe, are being felled to make way for vehicle access to a farm. Window for appeal just closed. Can anyone pls stop this?? @RobGMacfarlane @RustyRockets @Greenpeace @friends_earth @ChrisGPackham @MarkCavendish

[John Reade @DrJohnReade]

Swiss to vote in pesticide ban referendum https://t.co/iPWO4aWOaJ

[Charlotte Rankin @bumble_being]

Just a weevil munching on Ivy 🥰 Liophloeus tessulatus, I think @WeevilRS

[RJM Pendragon @EngineeredSpace]

"A nationally-important wildlife site is under threat – we need your help to save Swanscombe Marshes!"

https://t.co/quLMg5WVny

[RJM Pendragon @EngineeredSpace]

@Wildlifehunter @HarperAdamsUni @Dr_Jon_Parker @KeeleUniversity Well done Nicky! 🥳

[RJM Pendragon @EngineeredSpace]

Just a friendly little flower beetle saying thank you for not mowing the whole lawn 😊

#ThickLeggedFlowerBeetle #FlowerBeetle #OedemeraNobilis #Biodiversity #NoMow #SayNoToTheMow #Wildflowers

[RJM Pendragon @EngineeredSpace]

Although #NoMowMay is over I don't want to part with my wild garden. It's rented accommodation so I've compromised 😊

#WildGarden #Wildflowers #NoMow #SayNoToTheMow #SayNoToLawns #Biodiversity

[Miles Binnie @MilesBinnie]

My first ever four-spotted chaser! (Libellula quadrimaculata) Absolutely stunning! Thoroughly chuffed! 😄

[RJM Pendragon @EngineeredSpace]

I want to protect my plants but I won't use pesticides. I could reduce the aphid numbers myself but the Lasius niger are farming them. I could enlist ladybirds to help but the ants would attack them.

So I guess what I'm saying is, behold my glorious #aphid collection ❤️😂

[RJM Pendragon @EngineeredSpace]

#NoMowMay species no.10 that's just started to flower.

#CreepingButtercup (Ranunculus repens)

[RJM Pendragon @EngineeredSpace]

Species no.9 #NoMowMay

Little spots of sunshine, the common #Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale)

[RJM Pendragon @EngineeredSpace]

#NoMowMay species no.8

Many people remove this from their garden, especially if they have young children, but it's an important species for wildlife!
I just tell my daughter not to touch it 👍
#StingingNettle (Urtica dioica)