Dr Linda Birkin 🏳️‍🌈

Entomologist; particularly interested in urban ecology, wildlife gardening in small spaces, and ecological outreach. She/her.

[Dr Linda Birkin 🏳️‍🌈 @LJBees]

This is still my favorite extremely slapdash edit I have ever made, and that is probably Worrying.

[Dr Linda Birkin 🏳️‍🌈 @LJBees]

"Where was I last in this file -"
Ah yes. Perfectly normal and Professional powerpoint usage here😂

[Dr Linda Birkin 🏳️‍🌈 @LJBees]

HOW AM I ONLY JUST NOW LEARNING THAT EARWIG NYMPHS ARE CALLED 'WIGLETS'??

[Dr Beth Nicholls- find me on Bluesky! @BethBees]

It would be no fun for us wearing a fluffy jumper in a heatwave so how must it feel for our fuzzy #bumblebees?! Help @The_Buzz_Club and @yanetsepulveda understand more about how our warming climate and extreme weather events affect bees. #ClimateChange #CitizenScience

[Dr Linda Birkin 🏳️‍🌈 @LJBees]

@LymWild @NewForestFruit I have a suspicion it might depend on *what* birds go after the strawberries. I think blackbirds aren't fooled, but little birds might be...

[Dr Linda Birkin 🏳️‍🌈 @LJBees]

@LymWild @NewForestFruit Fantastic! They seem to work so well for you, but were variable across the board - I wonder why?

[The Buzz Club @The_Buzz_Club]

Our first online Symposium is only a few days away!

Book a ticket to hear back to back talks from our team - hosted by @DaveGoulson - with Q&A 🐝

@BethBees
@yanetsepulveda
@EllenRotheray
@LJBees

[The Buzz Club @The_Buzz_Club]

We are very excited for our Citizen Science Virtual Symposium with the Biological Recording Company @KeironDBrown on the 16th May!

Speakers: @DaveGoulson @LJBees @BethBees @yanetsepulveda @EllenRotheray

More information and booking link here: https://t.co/QGSWpAfKm3

[The Buzz Club @The_Buzz_Club]

WOW 😍 We have 299 of your hotels registered with The Big Bee Hotel Experiment!

Challenge: Help us reach 350 by the end of this week! Share and shout about our most popular project yet 🐝

https://t.co/fnTZzguXbw

@wildcommunityuk @DaveGoulson @EllenRotheray @SussexUni @LNHSoc

[Dr Linda Birkin 🏳️‍🌈 @LJBees]

Cool find during some pond maintenance by our @SummerwoodComm1 volunteers - caddis fly cases! The larvae use silk to bind together bits of stick, stones and other debris to make a protective case. This one even has some pearl mussels hanging out on it! #insects #wildlifegardening

[Dr Linda Birkin 🏳️‍🌈 @LJBees]

@donnyfarmshop @The_Buzz_Club @DaveGoulson @Kate_Bradbury Ooh nice! I've managed to get hairy footed flower bees sheltering in my bee hotel, but I think they're just chilling in the proverbial foyer. Now, where to find clay... 🐝 🌺

[Dr Linda Birkin 🏳️‍🌈 @LJBees]

@Blue14Dragon Not likely to be interested in a house / shed unless they are somehow... really sweet? 😂

[Dr Linda Birkin 🏳️‍🌈 @LJBees]

@Blue14Dragon Heyo! I don't think they're living *in* the tree, just using existing channels in the bark to go up and down. There are likely LOTS of aphids (which secrete honeydew, a sugary liquid) up the tree - or sweet birch sap leaking from a wound - and the ants are foraging for it.

[Dr Linda Birkin 🏳️‍🌈 @LJBees]

@Blue14Dragon If it's a bonanza of sweet stuff, the ants will have recruited loads of nestmates to go harvest too.

[British Science Week @ScienceWeekUK]

Are you excited to take part in Nature's Calendar, a citizen science project with @WoodlandTrust?

For all the info you'll need, join the webinar at 6pm on 14 March and hear from wildlife presenter @lizbonnin and the Nature's Calendar team!

https://t.co/TPImOF978N #BSW24

[Dr Linda Birkin 🏳️‍🌈 @LJBees]

Signs of spring :)

[Rowan A. @RowanAMon]

DECEMBER 12. AFTERBIRTH OF THE SHADOW KING.
Trailer below!
https://t.co/zLx5SctlB2

[The Buzz Club @The_Buzz_Club]

If interested, message us on here or email us at [email protected]

@DaveGoulson @LJBees

[Dr Linda Birkin 🏳️‍🌈 @LJBees]

@inftjazzloop @B_Strawbridge @susie_dent I mean, it's a bit more dramatic than 'nectar robbing'.
Bumbleheist
Beecheat
Pollenscam 😆

[Dr Linda Birkin 🏳️‍🌈 @LJBees]

I keep forgettign to use this site, since it's so broken :( But I do miss ecology twitter / chat. Anyone know if any of the alternatives are getting a science / ecology crowd going?