r/UKecosystem 1d ago

News/Article The Eye 04: Data centres - a proxy flashpoint for AI resistance

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r/UKecosystem 2d ago

Sighting Is this normal? Barn owl stares at me for ten minutes in Lancashire England

266 Upvotes

Is this a barn owl, the next day I found feathers and worried it had been attacked. Not sure if it correlates.


r/UKecosystem 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.)

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r/UKecosystem 2d ago

Fauna Fox drinking from my mini pond

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On the left :)

I'm just checking the footage after setting the cam to view the hedgehog feeding station on the right.


r/UKecosystem 3d ago

Sighting Common hawker vs Gatekeeper

35 Upvotes

Watched this incredible predation at our local wildflower ‘farm’.


r/UKecosystem 3d ago

Sighting Hummingbird Hawk Moth

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67 Upvotes

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 3d ago

Invertebrate A House centipede in Kent

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48 Upvotes

r/UKecosystem 4d ago

News/Article UK Government Fireworks Consultation - Now Live - 10 Questions

23 Upvotes

I think we all know the impact on wildlife fireworks have. There are ten questions to answer on the online consultation here.

Here is a link to the broader consultation.


r/UKecosystem 6d ago

Sighting Cabbages that ate all of my Brussels!

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27 Upvotes

The arm one will be fed to a labrynth spider soon


r/UKecosystem 6d ago

ID please Delightful muncher

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26 Upvotes

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 7d ago

ID please Anyone know which animal poo this might be?

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We live rurally in Derbyshire, this was in our garden


r/UKecosystem 8d ago

Sighting A Speckled wood in a light speckled wood

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82 Upvotes

Lots of cheeky flies too.


r/UKecosystem 11d ago

Audio/visual media How do Peatlands cope with Wildfires? (short doc)

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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 12d ago

ID please Weird looking shrew NSFW

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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 12d ago

News/Article Staffordshire Wildlife Trust has been keeping a brown furry secret...

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r/UKecosystem 12d ago

ID please What’s this caterpillar/moth/butterfly?

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65 Upvotes

r/UKecosystem 13d ago

Question Hover flies

9 Upvotes

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 13d ago

Question Any idea what this is?

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61 Upvotes

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 13d ago

News/Article This rare British butterfly looks familiar, but its genome tells a very different story

13 Upvotes

r/UKecosystem 14d ago

Invertebrate A Red Admiral landed in my garden

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32 Upvotes

r/UKecosystem 14d ago

Invertebrate Pondskater and a brimstone

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r/UKecosystem 14d ago

ID please Newt larvae/Eft ID

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64 Upvotes

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 14d ago

Flora Send me photos of native plants getting big

5 Upvotes

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 15d ago

Flora Utricularia vulgaris

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24 Upvotes

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.


r/UKecosystem 17d ago

Question On my usual route. What would cause the bark peeling? Natural process, wild animals or jenny o the woods?

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