Mary-Emma Hermand

The NHS is not a charity. The NHS is a public service, and should be properly funded🚨 If you agree, RT.

It's nesting season and our garden birds are working hard. All wild birds, their nests and eggs are protected by law. It’s important not to disturb them, so remember to leave the hedge-trimming until later in the year. 🐣🌳😊

Aphodius subterraneus from Scotland 1934- how believable and how significant is that record? ⁦@BlattaMann⁩ ⁦@AshWhiffin⁩

Well this is rather exciting for a fledgling entomologist! I wrote a thing with @szshollo doi.org/10.5281/zenodo…

Sir David Attenborough as insects. A thread.

Dear Councils..... Can we just agree that cutting down grass that’s rich in wild flowers and therefore a habitat, and supporting climate and ecological emergencies isn’t essential work? In fact it’s essential it’s NOT done!!

@Coleopterist @herdyshepherd1 @BlattaMann Difficult to tell without a look at the elytral apex under a scope - colour being more yellow leans towards Aphodius fimetarius though. Miraldo et al. 2014 and Fery & Rossner 2015 have descriptions and nice pictures - but beware of nomenclature differences in the latter!

@herdyshepherd1 They're all Aphodius in the old sense i.e. small dung beetles. The red one is difficult but @memma_smith may be able to advise. The others are 'Aphodius' prodromus/ 'Aphodius' sphacelatus - a difficult pair to separate but @BlattaMann is really hot on them...

Could use some species identification help Enjoy your breakfasts everyone else

Have you noticed the colour of the water in all the pictures of flooding & swollen rivers across the UK? That's our top soil being washed away because of poor agricultural policy Yes, some of the thinking in Env and Agricultural Bills should help, but implementation is key

Tree planting is important, but it must not destroy much rarer, valuable habitats. This wildflower-rich grassland in Cumbria has been planted without thought to the Butterfly Orchids, Betony, Scabious, Restharrow, Harebell and assoc'd biodiversity. Please RT to raise awareness!

@Pselaphacus @EntoAmo @morethanadodo I think so! Very glad it went well 😆

@memma_smith @EntoAmo @morethanadodo I had a number of people tell me how much they had enjoyed your talk today! I hope they got the chance to tell you themselves

Mary-Emma Smith makes the crowd chuckle when explaining the lengthy titles she could have used for her talk on nerdily comparing two very similar species of dung beetles 😄 #ColeopteristsDay @morethanadodo

@hatbirder @MegCJ88 Nah, I wouldn't fight - how could you not love them? Look at that little face!

@MegCJ88 I think @memma_smith might fight you for them though there are plenty to go round 😛

They are all my babies ❤️

SCIENTISTS: “We’ve produced the first-ever image of a supermassive Black Hole, 55-million light years away” RESPONSE: “Oooh!” SCIENTISTS: “We’ve concluded that humans are catastrophically warming Earth” RESPONSE: “That conflicts with what I want to be true, so it must be false”

@ChoralLinnets Thanks Charles!

There are no typos, right? #dissertation #entomology #dungbeetles #dungisfun

BREAKING NEWS: today the High Court has accepted our claim against the government regarding the #OxCamExpressway. We can now look forward to a full hearing for our claim that the govt broke EU law in the Expressway proposal. We will not stop speaking up for wildlife 👏