Cal Con Ltd

Caledonian Conservation Ltd is an ecological consultancy in the UK. Projects include developments, training & conservation research for NGOs & government.

[Steven Falk @StevenFalk1]

@graemelyons @SussexWildlife Had a brill' week in NE Scotland 2015 with Glenn @CalConLtd surveying sites like Culbin Sands/Forest, Morrich More, Den of Airlie etc. SSSI monitoring for @nature_scot. Entomology does not get much better than that.

[Cal Con Ltd @CalConLtd]

@spidivercity @joaniemac17 @BritishSpiders @ScotWildlife @kattyponder @EdinburghNats I find spiders either:

1. Don't realise they're being handled (humans are so beyond many spiders' frame of reference for an animal).

Or

2. Don't like being handled & try to escape.

It's important to remember #spiders are very fragile and can burst & bleed to death if dropped.

[Cal Con Ltd @CalConLtd]

#HappyNewYear!

Near the end of 2022 we had the opportunity to take part in an interesting @museumnaturalis @UniLeiden @RAVON genetic research study on introduced alpine newts in #Europe - providing DNA samples from #Scotland.

Watch this space for results!

#amphibians #ecology

[Javed Ahmed @curiocritters]

Happy New Year's Eve, folks! 🥳

Here's to a brave new world, filled with new wonders, new possibilities, and new discoveries.

Excelsior!

#HappyNewYear #HappyNewYear2023

*and if you would like to know more about the pretty butterfly pictured here, please see the next tweet.

[Cal Con Ltd @CalConLtd]

The Caledonian Conservation office is now closed for the festive break and will reopen on Wednesday 4th January 2023.

Hope everyone has a great Christmas and fantastic New Year!

#HappyHolidays #Christmas2022 #NewYear2023 #FridayFeeling #ChristmasTree #ecology #Scotland

[Cal Con Ltd @CalConLtd]

Director Chris Cathrine & Senior Ecologist Niall Currie enjoyed a few games of #MortalKombat at #ProcurexScotland!

Procurement events can be great fun!

#ecology #Scotland #videogames #arcadegames #retrogames #FridayFeeling @CIEEMnet @FSB_Scotland @BiPSolutions @MortalKombat

[Cal Con Ltd @CalConLtd]

Come meet Director Chris Cathrine and Senior Ecologist Niall Currie at #ProcurexScotland today (stand 128a) @SECGlasgow!

@CIEEMnet #ecology #wildlife

[Cal Con Ltd @CalConLtd]

Another beautiful #Lepidoptera from Javed & his @urbanbestiary team!

They're looking for support just now to deliver a new ambitious project on #Butteflies of #Mumbai #India.

Read more letter here & support them if you can!

https://t.co/UsghwnbVpY

#butterfly #crowdfund

[Javed Ahmed @curiocritters]

Grey Swallowtail Moth (Micronia aculeata).

Distributed across South, and Southeast Asia, including India. Ecology is little known.

📸 17 SEP 2022 (18:32 hrs.), at Bharat Van Joggers Park, #Marol, #Mumbai.

#TwitterNatureCommunity #moth

[Cal Con Ltd @CalConLtd]

Javed Ahmed & his team do an AMAZING job furthering understanding of the unique and very important #wildlife in #India. We're glad to support them but they need more help to deliver on their ambitious new project in #Mumbai!

@CIEEMnet @BuglifeScotland @BritishSpiders @WWFINDIA

[Javed Ahmed @curiocritters]

Please spare a moment to help support our ongoing urban wildlife research in #Mumbai.

Read more here: https://t.co/VhQnvbx7dE

#sciencetwitter #scienceeducation #wildlife #wildearth #MumbaiCity #TwitterNatureCommunity #conservation

[Cal Con Ltd @CalConLtd]

We're really happy to announce we're supporting @GlasgowBusters again this year. This has enabled them to get super and hard-to-find stock in for coming events. Money raised goes to Glasgow Children's Hospital Charity. Check them out!

@CIEEMnet @FSB_Scotland @Ghostbusters

[Ghostbusters of Glasgow @GlasgowBusters]

We have some new items that we have for sale @ @Acmecomiccon supplied by @CalConLtd - all will be revealed later today!

[RajashreeKhalap @RajashreeKhalap]

Brettus cingulatus female with brood (of 50+) on Days 2 & 3 after emerging from egg. This species has a special connection with my garden: it was first recorded from India from right here, by @curiocritters , Ahmed et al. 2017. 🧵
#spiders #wildlifephotography #nature #TeamSpider

[Javed Ahmed @curiocritters]

Just another day, another book for the #sortinghatspider (and the people who discovered it) to feature in

And all humble-bragging aside, thrilled to see our amazing #spider discovery feature in this Pocket Guide to #Spiders of #India

#ScienceTwitter #SpiderTwitter #scicomm

[Cal Con Ltd @CalConLtd]

Director Chris Cathrine has egg(ar) on his face!

Combining #dadjokes and #entomology for the win. I'll get my coat...

(Lasiocampa quercus)

#ecology #moths #Lepidoptera #WednesdayFun #Humpdayhappiness #wildlife #heatwaveuk #heatwave

[Cal Con Ltd @CalConLtd]

What an achievement! As always, we're honoured to work with this natural history legend. #India #wildlife #spiders #HarryPotter #mountains

[Javed Ahmed @curiocritters]

Got the sweetest 📩 today!

Years later, the #sortinghatspider continues winning 💕 & making people appreciate tiny #wildlife, so often overlooked, and something we explicitly set out to do, when we gave it a #HarryPotter inspired name.

#sciencetwitter #TwitterNatureCommunity

[Cal Con Ltd @CalConLtd]

Senior Ecologist Euan Murray gets up close with a poplar hawk-moth (Laothoe populi), one of the largest #moths likely to be encountered in #Scotland (totally harmless). We're having fun with lots of moth surveys this year - why not get your own moth trap? #wildlife #entomology

[Cal Con Ltd @CalConLtd]

@GlennNorris13 @BerryTylan @graemelyons @BritishSpiders @SussexWildlife @Buzz_dont_tweet A female Araneus alsine was also found at Flanders Moss by the then @nature_scot reserve manager, Francois Chazel, in scrub.

Details of this are also in the note I (Chris Cathrine) wrote in BAS Newsletter (https://t.co/DxAzuPWsGb).

[Cal Con Ltd @CalConLtd]

@GlennNorris13 @BerryTylan @graemelyons @BritishSpiders @SussexWildlife @Buzz_dont_tweet We found a male Araneus alsine at Flanders Moss using bugvac (vacuum sampling). The individual may have been searching for a mate of course. I (Chris Cathrine) wrote up a note on this for the BAS Newsletter - you can read it here: https://t.co/DxAzuPWsGb

[Cal Con Ltd @CalConLtd]

Amazing observation! Read more in the paper: https://t.co/EXQCAtshEQ

#spiders #India @BritishSpiders @AAS_arachnology

[RajashreeKhalap @RajashreeKhalap]

A young jumping spider, Asemonea cf. tenuipes subadult male, with some odd roommates. He's constructed his sheet-like shelter to enclose a mealybug; and ants from a nearby colony have been coming in all day to collect honeydew from the bug.
#ants #spiders #bugs #wildlife

[Cal Con Ltd @CalConLtd]

Who you gonna call?

Well, if it's wildlife or ecology related, us!

But today we had a visit from some paranormal investigators in the Ecto-Z, picking up some equipment we've been storing for @GlasgowBusters.

#Ghostbusters #WhoYouGonnaCall #wildlife #ecology #Scotland