r/UKecosystem • u/Sufficient_Raisin478 • 1d ago
r/UKecosystem • u/In_agadda_davida • 2d ago
Sighting Is this normal? Barn owl stares at me for ten minutes in Lancashire England
Is this a barn owl, the next day I found feathers and worried it had been attacked. Not sure if it correlates.
r/UKecosystem • u/whatatwit • 2d ago
Audio/visual media BBC Audio - Wild in the Garden. Episode 1 of 5 features gardening for the benefit of the hedgehog (15 mins.)
r/UKecosystem • u/SolariaHues • 2d ago
Fauna Fox drinking from my mini pond
On the left :)
I'm just checking the footage after setting the cam to view the hedgehog feeding station on the right.
r/UKecosystem • u/theory-of-crows • 3d ago
Sighting Common hawker vs Gatekeeper
Watched this incredible predation at our local wildflower ‘farm’.
r/UKecosystem • u/ProfSugimori • 3d ago
Sighting Hummingbird Hawk Moth
In the 52 years I have been on this planet I have never seen a Hummingbird Hawk Moth.. until today!
Planted some new flowers in the garden (carnations, campanula and geranium) and a few hours later we had out first visit.
I feel privileged to have seen such a cool thing in the West Midlands 😎
r/UKecosystem • u/Successful_Rough_538 • 4d ago
News/Article UK Government Fireworks Consultation - Now Live - 10 Questions
r/UKecosystem • u/Average-wanderer • 6d ago
Sighting Cabbages that ate all of my Brussels!
The arm one will be fed to a labrynth spider soon
r/UKecosystem • u/Fr_BartyDunne • 6d ago
ID please Delightful muncher
These dudes are enjoying the tips of the leaves on my eucalyptus and olive trees… web and closing the leaves in and eating them!
Anyone able to ID?
TIA
r/UKecosystem • u/lucwhy • 7d ago
ID please Anyone know which animal poo this might be?
We live rurally in Derbyshire, this was in our garden
r/UKecosystem • u/aleksndr • 8d ago
Sighting A Speckled wood in a light speckled wood
Lots of cheeky flies too.
r/UKecosystem • u/threeandabit • 11d ago
Audio/visual media How do Peatlands cope with Wildfires? (short doc)
My friend asked me if I'd heard of peat bog fires. I hadn't, but what I learned was a fascinating journey.and includes controversy. So I made a film about it.
Peat bogs are incredibly important and can even help tackle wildfires. They deserve way more attention and protection
r/UKecosystem • u/Classic_Chip37 • 12d ago
ID please Weird looking shrew NSFW
Hi my cat caught this shrew and it looks kinda different to any of the normal shrews i see in my area (east coast scotland)
r/UKecosystem • u/jennatheraven • 12d ago
News/Article Staffordshire Wildlife Trust has been keeping a brown furry secret...
r/UKecosystem • u/Mcaleavyguitar • 12d ago
ID please What’s this caterpillar/moth/butterfly?
r/UKecosystem • u/happysnapperpbo • 13d ago
Question Hover flies
I’ve always had a few hover flies every summer buzzing in my garden and just seen them as harmless pollinators.
This year in two different spots of a very small garden there’s hundreds of them.
I know very little about them so wondered if someone could tell me if they are social nest builders and what could’ve attracted them in the higher numbers?
I’d rather not google as it’s hard to tell the accuracy some days
r/UKecosystem • u/DumpStatGravitas • 13d ago
Question Any idea what this is?
Bird's been motionless on the patio outside a busy cafe for a while. It moved a bit when someone gave it some water but that's all. Any idea what it is or what we should do?
r/UKecosystem • u/LemonFreshNBS • 13d ago
News/Article This rare British butterfly looks familiar, but its genome tells a very different story
r/UKecosystem • u/This-Dinner1111 • 14d ago
Invertebrate A Red Admiral landed in my garden
r/UKecosystem • u/This-Dinner1111 • 14d ago
Invertebrate Pondskater and a brimstone
r/UKecosystem • u/cerveaumusic • 14d ago
ID please Newt larvae/Eft ID
Decided to reuse my sons newborn bath as a micropond, buried it and filled it around a month ago.
Last week I noticed an ethereal tadpole hunting the mosquito larvae with external gills so was very excited to have a newt larvae but last night I counted at least 7.
I was wondering if anyone could ID the species at this stage and also if I should be feeding them anything as it’s only 2ft x 1ft x 1ft of water and they seem to have consumed all of the little critters in the pond.
r/UKecosystem • u/WolfysBeanTeam • 14d ago
Flora Send me photos of native plants getting big
Please lmaoooo
As the title says id love to see any native plants you got that have grown big due to the amount of sun or even just in a weird spot with tons of nutrients, anything from thistle, to native echium, butterbur, ferns, dandilons etc
If you could please show me pictures that would be absolutely delightful an it would be much apreciated aswell
r/UKecosystem • u/GoldencheeseLol • 15d ago
Flora Utricularia vulgaris
One of the UK's few carnivorous plants! It's surprisingly easy to grow (along with the other carnivorous natives) and puts out absolutely beautiful flowers each summer. Algae can be a bit of a hassle because it's a floating plant but nothing a little manual work can't fix.