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Here's a selection of photos of the rather attractive Ivy Bees, which are currently enjoying the nectar and pollen of Ivy flowers. @surreybic @Buzz_dont_tweet

Around a dozen Willow Emerald Damselflies seen yesterday at the Riverside Nature Reserve Guildford. Photos show both male & female for comparison. @BDSdragonflies @surreybic

Blueblells and Early Purple Orchids in Surrey this weekend. @surreybic @southeastNT

To be paid and credited for scientific work as a woman in the 1880s, financially supporting her mother and sisters, and leaving behind a wealth of stunning and accurate entomological images that are still relevant today.🐞 Please join us in in celebrating Maud Horman-Fisher 🎨🦋

Maud worked for years as an entomological illustrator to support her family. 🐞🪲 Her sister, Ann, also undertook some botany mounting work for the Museum - another job like illustration that was considered suitably feminine for a woman. 🌿

Maud’s contributions go further than just science - they were also vital at home. In an 1879 letter Maud writes “Our means being very small, myself and my sisters are trying to help our mother...we have been looking forward to the colouring as a means of subsistence.”

Let’s start with what we do know. Maud was hired by the Natural History Museum in 1879 as a scientific illustrator and lithographer. 🎨 She went on to create hundreds of beautiful and anatomically identifiable images - an important skill before printing photos was feasible.

Meet Maud Horman-Fisher. We don’t know what she looks like, or very much about her life. ❓ Still - we’d like to turn the spotlight on this former employee this #InternationalWomensDay, for a few particular reasons.

BENHS 2025 Indoor Workshops begin with Staphylinidae identification workshop – Roger Booth (NHM) February 22nd, Dinton Pasture CP. To find out more - benhs.org.uk/event/staphyli… Image: Jon Cole

Congratulations to all of this year’s NBN Wildlife Recording Award winners, in particular Roger Morris and Stuart Ball for their Lifetime Achievement award! #Hoverflies #HoverflyRecordingScheme nbn.org.uk/news-events-pu… @NBNTrust @NBNAtlas

Superb!

Unlock Your Spatial Analysis Potential with Our #QGIS and R Course via @UK_CEH 18-22 November 2024 from £499 ceh.ac.uk/training/spati… PL RP @SUPERDTP1 @surreybic @SurreyNP @surreywt @SussexWildlife @SwanseaPostgrad @Impact_Swansea @SWBio_DTP @swilliams_ox @SxBRC @talklandscape

Rather surprised to spot this male Southern Hawker enjoying the autumn sunshine this afternoon. @BDSdragonflies @surreybic

Our #SurreyOldGrasslands project now has its own webpage! This exciting project is in year 2 after kickstart from nature recovery funding @NEThamesSolent & fundraising by @SurreyWT @surreybic surreywildlifetrust.org/what-we-do/pro… @BC_Surrey @SurreyNews @BSBIbotany @Newscooch @pennymarshwort

A selection of dragonfly images from the last few days. Male and female Migrant Hawkers, male Common Darter and a male Southern Hawker. @BDSdragonflies @surreybic

@SurreyWT @Matty_Davenport @Buzz_dont_tweet Hi @Matty_Davenport Thank you for sharing this with us would you be able to let us have your address so we can add this record to our database? Email: surreybic@surreywt.org.uk Thank you! Alistair

@SurreyWT @Buzz_dont_tweet any idea on what this colourful character is that's just walked across our garden? Hoping he's friendly.

After five trips over 3 weekends and around 15 hours searching and seeing nothing but flybys I finally bumped into this gorgeous female Brown Hairstreak on Bookham Common last weekend. @BC_Surrey @savebutterflies @southeastNT

@SurreyWT @naectegale @Buzz_dont_tweet @theroyalparks At a guess either Hedychrum niemelai or nobile however they are difficult to separate. @bwars2000 might have a view? Bushy Park is VC21 so outside of Surrey but I believe both have been recorded at that site

@Buzz_dont_tweet @SurreyWT Is this Hedychrum Rutilans? I looked it up on iNaturalist, but it doesn't list the UK as a location. Is it rare? I found it in Bushy Park @theroyalparks

Correction - (female) Black Arches… it’s been a long day 😊

A moth in the hand… 😊 Dark Arches #Bioblitz #PuttenhamCommon

Final (interim) total. 284 species (with more to come)!! Thank you to all the individual recorders and groups who have taken part, and to all the member of the public who came to join us!! #Bioblitz #PuttenhamCommon #HamptonEstate @mollybiddell