Steven Falk

Naturalist with passion for invertebrates, trees, habitats etc. Author of #BestBeeBook. Consultant keen to help you help our pollinators. Cyclist!

[Steven Falk @StevenFalk1]

1. Struggling with identification of bees/pollinators and various other tricky insects groups? It has been my life's mission to make things easier, so check out this chain. Firstly, Steven Falk Flickr: https://t.co/81PDNl2hZA. It's a virtual museum and field adventure.

[Marvin Sevilla @SprayOnCopper]

Generated 3D Model of the KNM-ER 1470 Based on the SOMSO reconstruction and a KNM-ER 60000 Mandible
Left, Low quality scan of the SOMSO Homo Rudolfensis reconstruction, right my advanced photogrammetry reconstruction of the cranium(using different source) and Mandible
Preliminary

[Steven Falk @StevenFalk1]

@Trumpete Hi Pete, my field guide can help https://t.co/dAhSHkefMC, or you can try my Flickr site https://t.co/zM0bU7gCPu. Centuncularis, willughbiella & ligniseca are the main garden ones. 👍🐝

[NatureBureau @NatureBureau]

Our 'flyble' A photographic guide to Flies of Britain & Ireland https://t.co/3RYrGa4taX is getting great reviews - most of the featured species have been given common names (AI review gets this wrong sometimes) making the book accessible to all @DipteristsForum @StevenFalk1

[Steven Falk @StevenFalk1]

@NatureBureau @BBOWT @DipteristsForum @Ecoentogeek Wonderful 👍

[Steven Falk @StevenFalk1]

@GrahamDenny9 @RabKing___aye @NHM_Diptera @DipteristsForum @kelly_jowett @D_Garrett_Ento @Rothamsted @HAU_Entomology @barry_woodhous7 @thiswordistaken Lovely. Lots here on the Isle of Portland Graham. You should be able to put a name to them all with the new fly book.

[Steven Falk @StevenFalk1]

@DaveOB66 I think it is but recommend you post it on the Conopidae Facebook group so that Dave Clements can cast his eyes over it.

[Steven Falk @StevenFalk1]

@TempleBalsall That’s the one.

[Steven Falk @StevenFalk1]

@TempleBalsall I’d visit but I’m now in Dorset for a week. Spent the morning surveying Chesil Beach. Very enjoyable!

[Steven Falk @StevenFalk1]

@TempleBalsall PS Fell upon this Native Black Poplar in the depths of Temple Balsall NR. Given that I'm the Warwickshire recorder, a bit embarrased as I must have walked past it dozens of times. Was it planted the same time as the Hampton Wood ones?

[Steven Falk @StevenFalk1]

@TempleBalsall Most likely dubia given how rare potens is.

[Steven Falk @StevenFalk1]

@PolitlcsUK @billcurtis0 Surely it would be better to role play as experts - a much declined and endangered species at the higher levels of environmental decision making. I say that as a former employee of the Nature Conservancy Council - so full of experts it had to be broken up and de-experted!

[Steven Falk @StevenFalk1]

@CDodson_Thatch Just heard that it’s officially dead Chris, probably a victim of repeated droughts (as I had suggested). I blocked the dork who so rudely stated I was bullshitting. I’ve been working with veteran trees for 45 yrs and sadly I’ve seen too many die like this recently.

[Steven Falk @StevenFalk1]

@OW_Photography @savebees Have a go at identifying them using my Flickr site https://t.co/tXCQ0nzy83. You could also try the Obsidentify app. It’s nice to see folk having a go.

[Steven Falk @StevenFalk1]

Another interesting week for dragonflies in my suburban Kenilworth garden. Both Demoiselle's passed through. They don't breed in my pond but adults hunt insects around it. The ovipositing female Emperor (not the first) suggests this species is successfully using the pond.

[Steven Falk @StevenFalk1]

@RyanM_Sussex The fieldcraft involves hours of perusing - trying to pooter up the small stuff directly, and trying to net the bigger stuff from trunks which is not easy. Suspect I missed a Ferdinandea ruficornis!

[Steven Falk @StevenFalk1]

The Native Black Poplar (Populus nigra betulifolia) overlooking the adjacent mill pond looking majestic.

[Steven Falk @StevenFalk1]

Two nice flies from @BBOWT Iffley Meadows on Saturday, the parasite fly Eliozeta pellucida (my 1st encounter with this recent British colonist) and the picture-winged fly Acinia corniculata, once a great rarity but increasing in the south (develops in Common Knapweed capitulum).

[Steven Falk @StevenFalk1]

@RyanM_Sussex Famtastic. I had another sap-run themed day in SW Warwickshire. May tweet later if I have the time.