Graeme Lyons

Can you get a shot from above out in the open and in focus? Pop it in the fridge for a bit if it is lively. I think my initial ID is correct though.

No idea what a Daffodil Leaf Beetle is but that looks to me like Pyrrhidium sanguineum (Welsh Oak Longhorn Beetle) although I can't see the antennae/head. It has spread recently and is no longer scarce, did it come out of some old logs?

Thank you!

Thanks Jonathan!

One last reminder of my talk tomorrow night on my book at Exeter Street Hall at 7.30 pm (until 8.30 pm). I will be selling the book at a discounted rate of £32 (cash preferred). Hope to see some of you there! It's only £2 entry.

Try Lathy humilis. Wrong family but a pretty little spider that is exceptionally common on trees.

This just arrived, by @graemelyons.bsky.social. 400 pages packed with guidance on how to identify almost any taxonomic group you can think of. An absolute 'must have' for any naturalist.

Thank you!

Thanks Martin.

Thanks so much for this, that's great to hear and just what I had hoped for!

My book is out there in the wild Although I have had copies of the book for about a month now (and I had a great day at Adastra a couple of weeks ago by way of a 'soft launc...

As it's publication day, I have put a few words down about what I have tried to do with the book, it's a lot more than just pan-species listing. Please have a read. I am now an author!

It's publication day!

I'm doing a talk on my book at Exeter Street Hall (opposite the Chimney House) in Brighton next Wednesday night. It's only £2 entry and I am selling the book at a discount. Hope to see some of my Brighton friends there!

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It's really quite common all through Sussex, here's my 171 records of it mapped. Such a cool looking thing though, I had one like that where the 'hole' through the head seems to be a collapsed turret and not a hole.

Enjoy!

Cover of book Pan-species Listing by Graeme Lyons.

Really enjoying this by @graemelyons.bsky.social
I don't think I'll ever become a super-naturalist but I'll have fun trying!
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Thank you to all who helped organise and run the 35th Sussex Biological Recorders' Seminar on Saturday - talks covered all sorts, from kelp and carbon storing trees, to woodpeckers, marine eDNA sampling and pan-species listing - I got the fantastic new book by @graemelyons.bsky.social whilst there!

Almost certainly I would think.

This was taken last summer. I didn't see any at Graffham where I found the moths in 2017 but I did find an entirely new population (and quite a heatlhy one too) at Hesworth Common.

2/2 I have 18 records, all from the Green Sand Ridge in West Sussex.

1/2 #speciesaday no. 686 is Oblong-leaved Sundew. Not usually as common as Round-leaved Sundew in Sussex. Find it on bare exposed black peaty mud (M16 - along with Sphagnum compactum and Marsh Clubmoss). This one appeared on a scrape at Hesworth Common last year, it also popped up again at Graffham.

Sounds like you could have done with that etymology in this instance ;). Never too late to start something new though.

Thanks Ken and Linda, I hope you enjoy it.

Great stuff, thanks!

6000 species in 2026: 6 week summary As of today I am on 1,255 species (20.9%) in the first six weeks of the year (665 of which are inverts). The latest addition being a tiny Ps...

1,255 for the year! 20.9% of the challenge complete, including 665 invertebrates. A trip out yesterday produced four lifers, one species new to Sussex and one new to West Sussex. A ridiculous 80 Cattle Egrets was hard to believe even when I was looking at them.

Thank you so much! Perfect.

Does anyone happen to have photos of the Newhaven Woodchat Shrike and the Humpback Whale (when it was off Beachy Head) from last year that I could use in some talks about my book please?