Api:Cultural

Think I’ve just found 9 Small-flowered Tongue Orchids on the @Nomura green roof. What do you recon @Mike_Waller_ @BSBIbotany @fungi_flowers

New book arrived. Aside from hoverflies, Flies are a group I’m not very proficient in. With help from this new book I aim to improve. Down the rabbit hole we go!

@JSpurs___ TfL currently holds no data on how many road traffic incidents involve SUV’s. Small children shouldn’t be on the roads alone. Parents should be teaching ‘stop, look both ways, listen’ before crossing. To many people walking into roads staring at 📱

These stats appear very misleading, how many children under 9 get hit by SUVs? Whereas I expect far far more are involved in accidents as passengers, and they’re far safer in an SUV than a smaller car The net result, kids less safe, but you can raise more from a bs SUV tax

@policylaila Not sure where his evidence comes from that more accidents are caused by SUV’s because TFL doesn’t seperate suv incidents from other cars. Yes if your hit by an SUV your more likely to be seriously injured or killed (the occupants of the vehicle are safer).

Khan blaming SUVs for deaths in London while being chauffeured around in one.

@InclusiveBuild There’s a new one being h installed on Clerkenwell road right now. I’ll keeep using the road and not the lane with a pedestrian zone either side of it qnd floating bus stops. The risk of colliding with unaware pedestrians is too real.

Making streets less enjoyable and more dangerous especially for partially sighted and #disabled people, even excluding them through ridiculous floating bus stops which go against all safety standards.

Gorgeous drift of sweet violet outside Sidney House abuzz with solitary bees @TowerHamletsNow

@VincentStops @MayorofLondon @DaveHill How many of them are dockless hire cycles ? Seriously too many people using them can’t cycle to save their life and have no clue about the Highway Code.

This is the crux of @MayorofLondon’s Vision Zero problem. Serious cyclist casualties are increasing and the rate of increase rising while all the other modes are reducing too slowly or levelling off.

Honey bee research receives a disproportionate and bias amount of funding for research compared to wild bees. Instead of sponsoring a bee hive, sponsor a bee scientist. nature.com/articles/s4159…

@BBCTomEdwards He can start by charging himself. The mayor is driven around in an armour plated Range Rover

NEW: Mayor to consider new charges for SUVs in London bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

My annual be walks at @FoTHCP are now live for booking. Sunday 19th. April and Sunday 21st June. Aprils walk we should see lots of early Andrena bees, their cuckoos, Hairy footed flower bee and lots of Bumblebees. tickettailor.com/events/thefrie…

@LI_Weather516 @Breaking911 There is a pair of coyotes in central park. They are well known about.

@Breaking911 1) NYC does not have Coyotes 2) There is no way this video is from today. It has been near 70° for the past 3 days and nothing else is frozen

A man jumped into a still-frozen pond in Central Park, NY, this afternoon to rescue one of the park’s coyotes after it fell through the ice.

@macro_action Frogs are also better jumpers. Can leap further than toads, toads mostly crawl. Toads will roam further away from their breeding ponds than frogs. Will be found miles away from water.

I don’t know the difference between a frog and a toad, do you?

@macro_action Frogs have smooth skin. Usually appear slimmy/slippery as they constantly secrete from their skin/or pee on themselves to maintain moisture. Toads have tougher bobbly skin and are generally less aquatic than frogs. Toads have poison glands behind their eyes frogs don’t.

@CrazyVibes_1 Walk around naked or put up some really obscene images to make her look away

My neighbor keeps her camera pointed straight at my back door. The camera is active. It swivels, so it is pointed in different directions throughout the day. 90% of the time it's pointed straight at my back door. She lives alone and usually has comments about what I'm doing around my house. It feels like every time i go out back i have this camera straight on me, then i notice the little blue motion light will activate. What's the best way to deal with this? Lattice? Plants?

@SCP_Hughes My very first project when I moved to London I’m 2005 was working in south Kilburn new deals estates delivering community gardening projects and biodiversity enhancements. I wouldn’t recognise it now.

Densification in South Kilburn, 2016 to 2022, matching perspectives.

Bee castles- nice habitat project to build nesting habitat for solitary bees researchgate.net/publication/39…

@ElmTreeBees @UniofExeter Read the blog for the critical detail. Not much is right with it put it that way.

@apiculturalLdn @UniofExeter Any hole is a goal. What's wrong with it?

Since @BrightonHoveCC mandated bee bricks in new developments I’m seeing a surge in ESG professionals and architects posting about these really badly designed bee death traps. If only Brighton had done an evidence based assessment before passing policy! apicultural.co.uk/f/busting-thro…

@RossLydall @metecoban92 @Gareth_Roberts_ Closed golf courses like whitewebs park in Enfield which are biodiversity hotspots he’s allowing spurs football club to trash

Fore! Golf courses in London are being targeted by Mayor Sadiq Khan for housebuilding, reveals deputy mayor for the environment @metecoban92 🏌️‍♂️⛳️ (He was being questioned by Lib-Dem assembly member @Gareth_Roberts_)

Gardening for moths- handy guide wildaboutgardens.org.uk/sites/default/…