Oliver E. Prŷs-Jones 🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Naturalist, interested in bees, birds, pollinators

[Oliver E. Prŷs-Jones 🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @OliverPrysJones]

An example of Tony Hopkins' beautiful illustrations for 'Bumblebees'. Reprint (3rd edition) available from Pelagic Publishing: https://t.co/umQFPY3jTL
@BuglifeCymru @cofnod @BumblebeeTrust

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

A wren’s voice is loud and clear, despite its small size.

📽: Lawrence Chatton

[Oliver E. Prŷs-Jones 🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @OliverPrysJones]

@IoloWilliams2 thought this might interest you - remains of a v large tuna on Llanddwyn beach, Ynys Môn. So they're now off our coastline.

[Oliver E. Prŷs-Jones 🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @OliverPrysJones]

Will you tell the @EU_Commission to drop its legal challenge that puts puffins at risk? https://t.co/PcPiFDOpB7

[Oliver E. Prŷs-Jones 🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @OliverPrysJones]

600 feet up in North Wales and a day with sun, after 10 days of cloud), has brought out hoverfies, honeybees, a few B. terrestris (3 males and a gyne) and B. pascuorum (a couple of workers collecting pollen and a male). Temp 13C (in the shade)!

[Rewild Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🌳 @RewildScotland]

What climate crisis!

Burning the hills so a few can shoot grouse. Forget banning wood burning stoves @JimFairlieLogie ban this!

[Oliver E. Prŷs-Jones 🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @OliverPrysJones]

First Comma of the year.. and showing where it gets its name from @cofnod

[Oliver E. Prŷs-Jones 🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @OliverPrysJones]

I just signed this petition to stop a waterway project in the heart of the world’s largest tropical wetland. Join this fight to pressure the Brazilian government to protect this ecosystem before it's too late: https://t.co/j7lyhaaRi6

[Hannah Bourne-Taylor @WriterHannahBT]

Swift Saturday: help birds get govt action by emailing me at [email protected]
People Power can save these birds and it takes 2 minutes!

[Oliver E. Prŷs-Jones 🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @OliverPrysJones]

The inside of a rotting post reveals how branches develop, and the start of each annual growth ring.

[Alex Penn @AlexPenn_1]

Nightjar flypast @FI_Obs yesterday evening.

A record-breaking year of occurrence for this species here, with this being the fourth individual of the year

[Oliver E. Prŷs-Jones 🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @OliverPrysJones]

One of two B. monticola gynes exploring yesterday amongst stone fields (790 m) for a site in which to dig a hibernaculum: upper slopes of Glyder Fach, Eryri NP, North Wales. This species has been found hibernating high up before:
https://t.co/srVtkp9RR3. @cofnod @BumblebeeTrust

[Oliver E. Prŷs-Jones 🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @OliverPrysJones]

Spot the common carder bumblebee (B. pascuorum) nest entrance..

[Steven Falk @StevenFalk1]

Anybody else noticing this? Seems to occur on farms in Enviro' Stewardship as much as those outside. Must be a severe limiting factor on pollinator abundance & lifecycle completion yet I can't get recognition/discussion of the issue!

[Sand Martin Wall @SandMartinWall]

It's pretty noticable numbers are starting to fall as some birds start their migration, but thankfully at the minute 18 nests remain active. These chicks are 6 days old.

[Oliver E. Prŷs-Jones 🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @OliverPrysJones]

@StevenFalk1 @cofnod @BumblebeeTrust With us (Clwyd, N. Wales) all species have been scarce after the poor spring but later emerging species, including pascuorum, seem to have fared slightly better.

[Oliver E. Prŷs-Jones 🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @OliverPrysJones]

First young gyne of the Common Carder bumblebee (B. pascuorum) just emerged from its parental nest yesterday..@cofnod,@BumblebeeTrust

[Oliver E. Prŷs-Jones 🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @OliverPrysJones]

@cofnod @BritishSpiders Last time I recorded a Dipogon here (2021) it had a Brown crab spider (which I think you IDd? Richard)@cofnod

[Oliver E. Prŷs-Jones 🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @OliverPrysJones]

A spider wasp, Dipogon (cf variegatus) dragging its prey home @cof

[Oliver E. Prŷs-Jones 🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @OliverPrysJones]

Hybomitra or Tabanus I think. I should have had a closer look.

[Oliver E. Prŷs-Jones 🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @OliverPrysJones]

An impressively large male horsefly (Hybomitra)!