We're closing in on #100! For instalment #88 in our #100Species series, VC Recorder Kay McDowell has chosen to feature the lovely Melancholy Thistle, a jewel in our Northern Hay Meadow plant assemblage: 🌻.

RT @BDSdragonflies: 💦 #PondWatch 2025 is here! 🎉. Spend 30 minutes by a pond anytime between 1st-31st July - watch, listen, smell, feel. ….

The warm nights have allowed us to moth trap at Jubilee Pasture between Bugthorpe and Kirby Underdale in East Yorkshire. The grassland was looking lovely and we managed to trap a nice array of moths, including the ever popular show-stopper - the Poplar hawk-moth.

It's #InsectWeek - a week organised by @RoyEntSoc to celebrate all things insect! You can read more about insects, get details of the week's events, and more through the Royal Entomological Society website: 🦋

For our instalment #87 of our #YorkshireIn100Species project, Jackson Sage of @humbernature shines a spotlight on one of our most overlooked, but potentially most intriguing shoreline species; Bladder Wrack! 🌊.

June's #MapOfTheMonth features a map of records from the main recording area at our recent bioblitz at Kilnsey Park: This is just a small subset of the ~1,000 records of over 600 species recorded at the event 👏.

Survey season is in full swing - our surveyors are working hard - ground truthing for the Ancient Woodland Inventory update as well as surveying new and existing Local Wildlife Sites (and SINCs) across North and East Yorkshire!

Today's #YorkshireIn100Species features the beautiful Duke of Burgundy butterfly, a rare species in Yorkshire that has been the focus of hard work by our contributor Robert Parks, @savebutterflies & volunteers with an aim to preserve its presence here: 🦋.

Following a successful bioblitz at Kilnsey Park, our latest blog summarises the event and its jam-packed programme of recording and activities. Click through to read more about what we all got up to on our 24-hour blitz in the Dales: 🦋🦆🌼.

It's #VolunteersWeek! So many volunteers give their time to biological recording; making records & identifications, managing schemes, societies & recording sections 👏 We'd also like to thank our NEYEDC volunteers, Becci & Graham, who assist with the YNU library & data input ⭐️.

Amongst all the wonderful wildlife recorded during our bioblitz at Kilnsey Park Estate over the weekend, we were lucky enough to see the stunning Lady's Slipper Orchid in flower on Kilnsey Flushes. What a beauty! #wildflowerhour #OrchidChallenge

We're nearing the end of the recording period for the Kilnsey Park Bioblitz and we've collected some brilliant records so far: .We've joined experts on bat walks and insect walks, opened moth traps, inspected mosses and lichens, sampled rivers, and more 🪲

We have the beautiful alpine plant Purple Saxifrage featured as today's instalment (#85!) of #YorkshireIn100Species, brought to us by Ann Cripps, an amateur botanist and member of Wharfedale Naturalists: 🏔️🌸.

We took a trip up to Kilnsey Park this past weekend in preparation for the Kilnsey Park Bioblitz, which runs from this Friday at 16:00 to Saturday at 16:00!🔎 All are welcome to join us to record wildlife at this beautiful site & its surrounds!

Our Map of the Month for May shows the coverage of research-grade records that we collected this year as part of the Hull City Nature Challenge, with comparison maps for previous years of the event 📍.

It's #WorldBeeDay! We hold over 25,000 records of 230+ species of bee in our database #DidYouKnow that most of our bee species in the UK are solitary bees? The Honey Bee and Bumblebees only make up a very small number of species compared to overall number found in the UK 🐝

As a LERC, we get lots of valuable records sent to us - but it's not often a species we've never heard of! We were delighted to be contacted by the @LincChalkStream Project recently regarding their work, and an exciting new record for our area! 🌊

Brilliant morning attending this year's @_NFBR conference: Biological Recording: Local to National. Four very inspiring & informative talks featuring case studies of recording at different scales & how these interact. Thanks to @_BTO @JNCC_UK @ChilternsNL & Brecknock Moth Group!.

Today's #YorkshireIn100Species blog features one of our iconic & best-loved mammals, the Badger! Kerry Metcalfe, a forestry consultant, recorder, and survey volunteer shares her insights into this lovely species - complete with some must-see videos! 🦡

Last week we organised a UK Hab training session for our Local Wildlife Site surveyors, led by Laurie Wildwood, getting them up to speed with using the habitat mapping methodology ahead of the 2025 survey season. We visited Allerthorpe Common to put skills into practice 🗺️