Juliet Turner

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No more Beewashing please! Why beekeeping doesn't help conserve bees. Pls RT if you agree. youtu.be/fiBYBmlKSYU

I grow quite a few lilies in the garden, but this is something I’ve never seen before: This flower should have six anthers, but one has developed differently and partially formed into a petal. Anyone know anything about how this happens?

An amazingly well-camouflaged field grasshopper. Can you see it?

Bees are good pollinators, but so are butterflies, moths, flies, wasps, beetles, and sometimes ants. I’m sure there are other groups of insect pollinators too! Even birds, bats, primates, and wolves can be pollinators.

Not the best weather for fieldwork but I did get all my pollinator transects done before the storm rolled in 🌧️ #Ecology

Elons missing daughter is doing Farmland Ecology, the future is looking bright

Another week of fieldwork complete, but lots still to go! It’s a busy month; when I’m not outside searching for wildlife, I’m inside writing my DPhil thesis. Weekends and leisurely evenings don’t exist at the moment. It’s a lot, but there’s nothing else I would rather do! 🐝📝📚

If you want to be involved in some citizen science, help butterflies, or just have an excuse to sit in the sun for a while, the Big Butterfly Count starts today More info: bigbutterflycount.org @savebutterflies Some of the butterfly species I saw this week in S. England 👇

Worth pointing out that hoverflies and minor wasps are extremely valuable as pollinators. They are often overlooked as everyone focuses on bees.

You don't need to be a butterfly expert to get involved in the #BigButterflyCount 🦋🔎 Use our free identification guides for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to help you. Download them and take part here 👉 bigbutterflycount.org

I’ve had comments that it’s strange to study biodiversity in the UK where “there is none” We have lost many things, but there’s still a treasure trove of species to find. Hoverflies are the perfect example: Look closer and you realise how much diversity there actually is

Very different weather today. Not seeing much wildlife. I feel like I have been travelling through Van Gogh’s “Wheatfield with Crows”. ☁️

Yesterday in the field: A beautiful Brown Argus / Aricia agestis Common in the south of England but mostly absent from Wales, this is a species I have barely seen and so was very excited to find several during a site survey this week

What ecological surveying looks like when it’s 30 degrees: crawling inside a hedge to take a break because it’s the only way to get out of the sun. Now I viscerally understand how important farmland hedgerows are for wildlife - it’s a real lifeline 🦌🐍🪺

More photos to Ectemnius Crabronid wasps. I’m seeing them everywhere now! I spend many of my lunch breaks trying to find and photograph more of them. These are solitary wasps, with single mothers that hunt flies and dig burrows in dead wood to rear their young. 📍 Oxford, UK

I’ve had a great week in my new role surveying pollinators and plants across English farms🌾 The heat is challenging but I’m seeing lots of amazing insects- here’s a selection of butterflies I managed to photograph so far (I’ve seen many others but they were too fast!)

I’ve had a very busy week so hadn’t been checking my notifications, but wow this got a lot of responses: thank you everyone for the good wishes!