Grace England

MSc SISS student and Zoology graduate 🦡🦇🌱 People of the world, spice up your wildlife 🦌🍄

[Grace England @GEnglandEcology]

Red-tailed bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius) looking pretty on the bluebells 🐝 #bluebells #bumblebee #nature #lockdown #ancientwoodland

[Thomas C @CawdronTom]

Great to see our footage and photography featuring on euro news last week. ⁦@KentWildlife⁩ #rewilding #wildlifephotography https://t.co/5Pis3zVtfq

[Grace England @GEnglandEcology]

Essex skipper (Thymelicus lineola) on some bramble at @BBOWT Pamber Forest last week 🦋 what a good poser 😎 #butterfly #naturelovers #MScSISS

[Richard Dowling 🐝 @DowlingWildlife]

Artificial Lawns are spreading at a worrying rate, fuelling an even more rapid decline of biodiversity. Until Government make these dreadful plastic landscapes illegal, we'll need to work to help people make more informed decisions in their garden. Please share far and wide

[Grace England @GEnglandEcology]

#MScSISS

[Grace England @GEnglandEcology]

Two lovely orchids from last week for @BSBIbotany #orchidchallenge 🌸 pyramidal and common spotted orchird 🌱 the former found in Trowbridge, Wiltshire and the latter in Kemble, Gloucestershire ☀️ #naturelover #orchid

[Grace England @GEnglandEcology]

@BBOWT It was glorious!

[Grace England @GEnglandEcology]

What a gorgeous bank holiday Monday at @BBOWT Warburg Nature Reserve ☀️ Saw these beautiful butterflies, common blue (Polyommatus icarus) and small heath (Coenonympha pamphilus) as well as a host of others 🦋 Also saw a common lizard, a mole and lots of birds 🌳 #naturelovers

[Grace England @GEnglandEcology]

@CawdronTom So cute, love it! 🦊

[Grace England @GEnglandEcology]

RIP lovely Nigel 🐾🤍

[BBC Gardeners World @GWandShows]

As you may have heard on @BBCr4today, Nigel often stole the show when we were filming with Monty at Longmeadow. Here's one of our favourite clips from a couple of years ago 🐾 #GardenersWorld #RIPNigel

[Grace England @GEnglandEcology]

@sbrackenborough They definitely improve with age don’t they! 😂

[Grace England @GEnglandEcology]

First common Cockchafer (Melolontha melolontha) of the year and on the 2nd May, how fitting! Look at the lamellate antennae on this big guy 🐞 #nature #beetle #may

[Grace England @GEnglandEcology]

The butterflies have been loving our lilac bush since it flowered last week, including this colourful brimstone (Gonepteryx rhamni) 🌸🦋 #naturelovers #butterfly #lockdown

[Grace England @GEnglandEcology]

Grateful that I can walk to such a beautiful ancient woodland full of bluebells, my favourite flower 💜 the lesser celandine are still looking lovely too 🌼 #bluebells #wildflowerhour #naturelover #DailyExercise

[Grace England @GEnglandEcology]

Happy Easter from this stunning orange-tip (Anthocharis cardamines) and I 🦋 check out the proboscis on this beauty 😍 orange-tips and many other butterfly species been out in force this weekend giving us some joy in lockdown and I love it 🧡 #butterfly #nature #LockdownEaster

[Grace England @GEnglandEcology]

A little roundup of this week’s site finds whilst translocating 😍 field vole/short tailed vole (Microtus argestis) 🐀 common toad (Bufo bufo) 🐸 speckled wood (Pararge aegeria) 🦋 and me with a frog ready for the release site 🌍 #EssentialWorker #ecology

[Grace England @GEnglandEcology]

Definitely appreciating my village more than ever since #lockdown began 🌼 Walking round the countryside that surrounds it has been a welcome change of scenery from my house 🌸 Just saw my first bluebells of the year too which put a big smile on my face 💜 #nature #DailyExercise

[Grace England @GEnglandEcology]

From the bottom of my social distancing heart, thank you 🏆 couldn’t have done any of this without my clever pup Genie (and @CawdronTom of course) ❤️ #MScSISS #genieforever

[Plant Diversity at UoR @readingbotany]

Dr M'Oscars: The award for Best Actress goes to @GEnglandEcology (and her dog Genie) for A Fungi-ded Tour! CONGRATULATIONS TO BOTH! @UniofReading @ReadingBioSci #MScSISS #MScPlDiv https://t.co/ZM7tRDYxCX

[Gianluca De Santis @lucadb]

Venice hasn't seen clear canal water in a very long time. Dolphins showing up too. Nature just hit the reset button on us https://t.co/RzqOq8ftCj