Kieran Anderson
Currently Misadventuring in Entomology.
Fascinated by soil dwelling invertebrates and the hymenoptera, mostly wasps. However, easily distracted by just about anything mycological, botanical or inverty.
- Reposted by Kieran Anderson252 pages of back issue diptera excitement (Dipterist Digest Vol 30 pts 1 and 2) now available to download free from our website dipterists.org.uk/news/dipteri... World class science in action! @britentsoc.bsky.social @royentsoc.bsky.social @flygirlnhm.bsky.social @sjthomasbotany.bsky.social
- Just wow!
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- Reposted by Kieran AndersonCall out to anyone with UK records of Sphaeroceridae not on NBN/iRecord. Looking at getting the best distribution possible for a new key, I realise this will be a 'best possible', but more the merrier. Please share @dipteristsforum.bsky.social @flygirlnhm.bsky.social @respublications.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Kieran AndersonHappy to share our latest publication with you. 🧵 Trees are often overlooked as relevant bee forage ressources. Realising that there is relatively little known about bees in flowering tree canopies, we searched for data and methodologies to tackle this gap. @jki-research.bsky.social
- FIT for purpose? Sampling Bees in Flowering Canopies with Flight Interception Traps (FITs) by Krahner et al. provides methodological advice on how to best sample pollinators in tree canopies. doi.org/10.26786/192...
- Reposted by Kieran AndersonJoin us for our first identification workshop of 2026 - Apoid Wasps with Mike Edwards on Weds 18th February - more info and booking here: www.northwestinvertebrates.org.uk/event/apoid-...
- Reposted by Kieran Anderson!Please Read! Coleopterists Day is happening on Saturday 21st February, not the 22nd as previously circulated. Accept our apologies for this confusion, we hope to see you there for discussions, presentations and more...🪲🪲🪲
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- Reposted by Kieran AndersonSeen a cool plant or insect and wondered how it helps conservation? 🌱 Learn how to make your wildlife sightings count with iRecord in our iRecord 101 online training on Thu 2 Apr 2026. Discover how everyday records power conservation. 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1734876575... @ukceh.bsky.social
- Reposted by Kieran AndersonWe're counting down to the start of #NewYearPlantHunt & just look at this map showing all the Group Hunts we know about so far, across Britain & Ireland: a record number! Lots of family & solo hunts planned too. How many of you will take part this year? Can we break our record of 3,336 participants?
- Reposted by Kieran AndersonNo better way to walk off the mince pies & chocs! If you'd like to #NewYearPlantHunt in #Ireland, check out these group hunts planned from 1-4 Jan (Or plan your own of course!) For more info, see bsbi.org/take-part/ev... @bsbibotany.bsky.social @ulsterwildlife.bsky.social @hannahmul.bsky.social
- Utterly brilliant people, well worth attending!
- Learn more about #diptera Funding available for Summer field meeting 2026 #fieldcraft #entomology #pollinators #foodwebs #detritivores Application deadline is 5th Jan. Email enquiries@dipterists.org.uk @britentsoc.bsky.social @dipterists.bsky.social @royentsoc.bsky.social @flygirlnhm.bsky.social
- Reposted by Kieran AndersonVoor wie van plan is zich de komende dagen vol te vreten, hier een hongerwesp, Gasteruption caucasicum. #ElkeDagEenInsect
- Reposted by Kieran AndersonThis gallery of almost all EU bee species high quality photos is quite impressive: pollinatoracademy.eu/images
- So I have the worry sensation that this might be a Braconid of the Rogadinae, I think maybe in the genus Aleiodes @gavinbroad.bsky.social @jasboparai.bsky.social?
- Reposted by Kieran AndersonA rather optimistic attempt with the trap last night, but two striking Mottled Umbers (plus a surprising variety of flies) as reward. Tonight looks more suitable so will doubtless try again. VC 11, SW Hants #teammoth
- Reposted by Kieran AndersonI am aware of how strange it is to be excited to find a dead hornet, take it home and stick a pin through it. It's doesn't mean I'll stop doing it though. It dwarfs all the other hymenopterans I have specimens of. A giant predator of the insects. @sorbynathissoc.bsky.social @ynuorg.bsky.social
- I fear for all of us there comes a time, when in the dead of night unable to find the damned precise part, we must accept our lives have reached a point when we must label our nuts. #raaco
- Reposted by Kieran AndersonGood morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
- Reposted by Kieran AndersonFirst & last flies featured in #FliesofBritainandIreland – Wasp-banded Comb-horn Ctenophora flaveolata & Deer Warble Fly Hypoderma diana. Nearing completion due late Jan/early Feb 2026. Pre-order now bit.ly/4dqQI8Z @flygirlnhm.bsky.social @gailashton.bsky.social @dipteristsforum.bsky.social
- Reposted by Kieran AndersonRare Earth will be back on air soon & in preparation for a programme on Darwin, Wallace & evolution, I found this ace example of evolutionary adaptation. The plant C. argenteum makes seeds that look & smell like dung, so dung beetles roll them away, bury them, then lose interest. Free seed planting!
- Reposted by Kieran AndersonThe voices of trans people must be heard in Parliament.️ I’ve urged full scrutiny of EHRC’s guidance, which risks undermining their rights. Lib Dems call on the Government to protect everyone fairly and ensure people aren’t excluded from safe facilities or public life.
- Reposted by Kieran AndersonThe British Mycological Society are surveying all fungi recorders as part of a review on how they share their data. It would be great if anyone who records fungi could complete it (you don't have to be a prolific fungi recorder or BMS member to take part). docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
- Reposted by Kieran AndersonHello Bluesky - The 'Supporting Local Recording Fund' for Hampshire is OPEN. Get up to £350 to train, run wildlife recording activities or even buy equipment! Deadline, 31st January 2026. More information here: www.hants.gov.uk/landplanning... #BiologicalRecording #Ecology
- Reposted by Kieran AndersonThe latest edition of Flora News, the newsletter of the Hampshire Flora Group, is now available for FREE. As packed with botanical interest as Hampshire is packed with amazing plants! @bsbibotany.bsky.social hantsplants.uk/floranews.php
- Reposted by Kieran AndersonThis is just such an improbable pink color for a wasp. Digonogastra, from west Texas, specimen in the UT insect collection.
- Reposted by Kieran AndersonIts WORLD WASP DAY!
- WTF @royentsoc.bsky.social, the new Dolichopodidae handbook is £125!!! So much for Entomology being accessible. Will any of our societies @dipteristsforum.bsky.social @britentsoc.bsky.social @amentsoc.bsky.social be stepping up and challenging the RES over this? #diptera #entomology
- Reposted by Kieran AndersonConference organizers: If you want people who work outside of academia (or financially secure company), to give a talk at your conference bc you value their expertise, it's unreasonable to make them pay for registration. Artists/Nonprofit folks do not have the funding to pay you to share expertise.
- Reposted by Kieran AndersonThat’s what they call a landslide!
- Reposted by Kieran Anderson‼️Zack Polanski elected leader of The Greens
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- It’s here! Starfinder 2E in the wild! Cannot wait to play this… #RPG #Starfinder
- The next game for the Portsmouth Pathfinder Society is up, for Sunday 27th July at Dice Portsmouth. New players always very welcome and no previous experience of a RPG or Pathfinder is needed. warhorn.net/events/pompe... #Pathfinder #PathfinderSociety #RPG
- Reposted by Kieran AndersonYou need to take a look at this bug I saw in the park last night. Look at it! What a weirdo! I’m obsessed! It’s called a Long-Necked Ground Beetle and I can’t believe we’re neighbors.
- Reposted by Kieran AndersonNew paper out on an important issue — monitoring insects requires preserving the specimens. We explored this issue using data from the Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab, which has systematically destroyed most of their specimens for decades. A 🧵(1/10) doi.org/10.1093/aesa...
- Reposted by Kieran AndersonI think this deserves to be the nature photo of the year!
- Reposted by Kieran AndersonHave you recorded wildlife? An MSc student at Leeds Uni is interested in understanding how biological recording and biological recorders contribute to conservation - survey link here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/taGxQK7Adg
- Due to some technical issues, the plug broke, this is a bit delayed, but our first Light Trap at Portsmouth Natural History Musuem is away! #Entomology #Lepidoptera #Moths
- Reposted by Kieran AndersonI've wanted to write this article for years. About my and other's struggles to even survive sometime in #academia. Thank you to the amazing editors at @plosbiology.org that gave me the forum to write this piece. #science
- So I'm doing a thing, and GM'ing my first game of @paizo.com's Pathfinder Society at the excellent Dice in Portsmouth. And even better, it involves Wasps! What else could you possibly want! Come play Pathfinder with us, newbies very welcome. #Pathfinder #Wasps warhorn.net/events/pompe...
- Wooop! Finally, several years after planting, the Rose has lured in the absolutely awesome looking larvae of an Arge sp. sawfly. Will be collecting to rear through and see if we can get any Ctenopelmatinae wasps out of them! #Entomology #Wasps #Hymenoptera
- Reposted by Kieran AndersonStill a bit of work to do but my Pseudoscorpion guide is coming along. Maps are just about done (these show pre (yellow) and post (red) 2000 records) but I will need to revisit museum specimens to re-photograph or make detailed drawings.
- Reposted by Kieran AndersonWe are expanding our online presence and have set up a LinkedIn page: uk.linkedin.com/company/appl... Please come give us a follow there for videos and updates on our research activities related to applied entomology, especially integrated pest and pollinator management!
- Reposted by Kieran AndersonVery excited to say that we are seeking an Assistant Curator to join our entomology team! 😁🪲 For full details on this 2 year fixed-term post, head to our website: ➡️ careers.nms.ac.uk/job/727783 #Entomology #InsectCollection #EntoJobs #MuseumJobs
- So this is a delightful little moment of disobedience……..
- So the UK Met Office is inviting people to suggest up to 5 names for storms. And apparently lots of people have been suggesting "Storm Bigoil", along with BP, Equinor, Exxon & Shell... This is obviously appalling & definitely not to be emulated via this link: www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-o...
- Reposted by Kieran Anderson🌟 Exciting Discovery Alert! 🌟 Back in January we teased some big news…and here it is! 🐌 Semilimax pyrenaicus (Pyrenean Semi-slug) has been recorded in Britain for the first time, found at a colliery spoil site in Cwmaman, S. Wales. Read more: doi.org/10.61733/jco... #SemiSlug #WildlifeDiscovery
- While @dipteristsforum.bsky.social field meeting is in theory to collect flies, it’s proved to be a great trip for @carrionbeetlesuk.bsky.social! Along with Phosphuga atrata and Oiceoptoma thoracicum managed to find our first, hopefully, Nicrophorus vespilloides #entomology #diptera #coleoptera
- The journey to the @dipteristsforum.bsky.social Summer Field Meeting continues, a beautiful, if wet morning in Glasgow before heading to Inverness and then onwards to Tomich!
- And we’re off! On the Caledonia sleeper heading off to the @dipteristsforum.bsky.social Summer Field Meeting! To the, hopefully for a least sometimes, dryish highlands!
- Reposted by Kieran AndersonHere you go: an absolute beast of a starter pack, with many of the UK's most prominent humanists on it. Includes scientists, historians, philosophers, public figures, the New Humanist editorial team and Humanists UK staff. A network for reason and decency. go.bsky.app/PTC4j2dat://did:plc:nesbohibqamc3bdlowcrpdsl/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lb5agy5rb726
- Reposted by Kieran AndersonIt's National Biscuit Day, which means you're obliged to eat biscuits - and nothing but biscuits - for 24 hours. Anyone caught breaking the rules will be immediately arrested by a police officer dressed as a giant Hobnob. #NationalBiscuitDay
- Reposted by Kieran AndersonLeucospis chalcid wasp, a parasitoid of the egg cases of another favorite of mine, resin bees. Weird chonky thing. 🖤
- Todays find, several sawfly larvae, I think possibility of Ash Sawfly, Tomostethus nigritus, on Narrow Leaved Ash, Tomostethus nigritus, feeding merrily along despite the pouring rain. #Entomology #Hymenoptera #Sawflies
- Another highlight from today, these beautiful little pearl like eggs, no idea what might emerge, but possible Lepidopteran or Hemipteran, can just wait and see what hatches! #Entomolgy #Lepidoptera #Hemiptera
- Gruesome, fascinating and charming all at once. No idea what these might be, can the cocoon suggest anything @gavinbroad.bsky.social @jasboparai.bsky.social? Found several of these possible wasp cocoons wearing their aphid victims as hats today on roses. #Entomology #Wasps #Hymenoptera
- Reposted by Kieran AndersonTwo Meadowsweet-associated sawflies on Hogweed on banks of the R. Derwent in E. Yorkshire last week...Phylloecus xanthostoma (Meadowsweet Stem-sawfly) and Arge ciliaris (Meadowsweet Fusehorn). A good time to get out and find these beauties! #symphyta #yorkshiresawflies @yorkswildlife.bsky.social
- Reposted by Kieran AndersonLabour promised to restore nature. ❌ Instead, their Planning Bill contains a licence to destroy it. We offered solutions. We’re done waiting. Part 3 of the Bill would gut the laws protecting our most precious habitats & species. Without significant change, it must be scrapped.
- So @britentsoc.bsky.social wheres the members survey on the website? Cannot find it as promised in the Members Area.
- Reposted by Kieran AndersonOF ALL THE PHOTOS TO GET MOTION BLUR! 😭 Cleaned it up best I could - because this is a Genus Pamphilius Sawfly bitches! (Zero Oregon sightings on BugGuide & iNat - "whopping" 66 US sightings on iNat) LOOK AT THIS TRANSFORMER! Right up there with Conura Chalcids! #inverts #becurious
- Reposted by Kieran AndersonCloser:
- This is so cool to see this in such fine detail!
- Reposted by Kieran AndersonCelebrating a major milestone this week. 🎉 My first issue as editor of the British Mycological Society’s Field Mycology publication is now online and available #OpenAccess for all to read. ➡️ fieldmycology.org Please read and share!
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- So what do we recon to these, I think likely Lepidoptera eggs, found on Lime Tilia sp. last night while out caterpillar hunting. I've no idea, bur cannot wait to find out! #Entomology #Lepidoptera #Egg
- I had the D'oh moment, shortly after posting this one. Unornamented, so likely not Leps or Hemiptera, but instead most likely Coleoptera.
- And yup, the little murderous eating machines emerged Monday. These #Coccinellidae already making rapid progress at clearing the garden of aphids. #Entomology #Coleoptera #Rearing
- Will attempt to rear to adulthood, ideally while attempting to provide an opportunity for parasitization, if I can figure out how..... I'm feeling a little villainous now my first thought about most things is has this been parastised yet and if not, how might I tempt its parasites to strike
- Reposted by Kieran AndersonAn open letter calling for pride events to ban anti trans parties that we have signed.
- Reposted by Kieran AndersonYou can read the full letter on my website: carladenyer.co.uk/my-letter-to...
- Reposted by Kieran AndersonToday I've written to Bridget Phillipson to ask for clarity on how the government will ensure trans people's rights in the wake of the recent Supreme Court ruling and EHRC guidance. At a moment of extreme worry and distress for the trans community, govt must step up and give assurances.
- Okay, you win this round Gelis, but this isn’t over…. A simultaneously fascinating and frustrating group, determined to remain unidentified by any means…. Thanks to the brilliant @gavinbroad.bsky.social for arranging accesses today at the @nhm-london.bsky.social #Wasps #Ichneumons #Entomology
- Reposted by Kieran Anderson"why not use [language model] for this" well you see I take some amount of pride in having stuff to say that can't be predicted by a statistical estimate
- Wasps! Can you ever really have too many (well obviously not), but these chaps emerged today from a suspected spider egg sac. They have a braconid look to them, but will get a better look under the microscope when I have subdued a specimen or two….. #Hymenoptera #Entomology #Wasps
- A rather brightly coloured Mottled Umber Erannis defoliaria, I think, caterpillar found while out and about today. Among Hawthorne flowers. Potted in the hopes it’s been parasitised by something interesting. #Lepidoptera #Entomology #Hymenoptera
- Reading the, oh so very clumsy and smug decision of the Supreme Court for the third time. It’s very much a reminder of what a loss Lady Hale’s retirement was to court, we may never see her like again.
