Kelly Jowett
@kelly_jowett
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Agri-environmental researcher with a beetle obsession
Harpenden, East
Joined March 2015
My new website now up! Selling cards and prints, with more cool stuff on the way soon ✨️🪲🌱💚 #art #entomology #beetle #teambeetle #wildlifeart #science #stem #scicomm #artist
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New research highlights how sediment ponds help farmers protect land and boost biodiversity - great to be partner in this intriguing PhD study @lborouniversity
https://t.co/5L7gKe2NeZ via @lborouniPR
lboro.ac.uk
A research project in Cumbria is shedding light on how simple on-farm features like sediment ponds can help farmers manage runoff, protect valuable soil, and support vital biodiversity – all while...
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🔬 What you see here is the highly magnified upper end of a hornet’s stinger (Vespa crabro). Compared to the honeybee, the hornet’s stinger is about four times thicker in diameter, giving it remarkable strength and rigidity. Despite its power, the hornet’s stinger remains a
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This is what sticks on your finger if you ever touched a butterfly. Picture thread 🧵 🦋Wingscale special. Discover the beauty of Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies) through the microscope. The name Lepidoptera is derived from the Greek, meaning „scaly winged“, and refers to
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@barry_woodhous7 is mothing ,ringing and reading in his spare time catching beetles as well !😂@LassHill @RabKing___aye @kelly_jowett @FarmInvertsUK @DrRossPiper @stuttonsparrows @MothTrapper48 @Eleanorjb99 @Gameandwildlife @MeganRural @sarahchamberse2
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📢New study: Aphid populations attacking lettuce fields in England show surprising east-west geographical split that could complicate control efforts...🪲🥬 Full story 👇 https://t.co/Va0B9qHHZi
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Fantastic to see so many dung beetles @GrahamDenny9 😍 worth mentioning that these are important food for your farmland birds and bats too!
Plenty of life in the muck , without livestock we would lose so much of our wildlife,birds rely on insects , worms , dung beetles , its habitat unique to grazing for 1000s of years . @kelly_jowett @1GarethWynJones @SallyAnn_Spence @DrRossPiper @Gameandwildlife @SongBirdSBS
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The Royal Entomological Society has over 20 Special Interest Groups pulling together a community with a shared interest in advancing areas of knowledge within unique fields of #InsectScience. Read more about our SIGs 🔽 https://t.co/dXVRQt254m 📸 (c) Pepe Badia Marrer
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You don't often see the wings of a Devil's Coach Horse, but I think this one must have blundered into a spider's web. See how it puts its wings away, folding them into the tiny space under the elytra by doing some serious abdominal writhing.
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Why woodland should be regularly grazed: Exhibit A Get that livestock into the woods! The (Woodland Dor) beetles will thank you!
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Yet again livestock are increasing the biodiversity by supporting food chains both above & below ground…🐄💩🪲👍 Want to learn more about the benefits of #DungBeetles & sustainable parasite management? Book a workshop &/or a dung beetle survey https://t.co/537TioWbZu
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Please note, the app is still in development, happy for feedback!
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Now is fantastic time to check what pest controlling friends you have on your farm! The @Rothamsted carabid guide is now available in app form in @UK_CEH e-surveyor! Links to info, vids, and ID are in the app 🪲 #farming #nature #carabid #ipm #regenag #agriculture #Agriculture
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📣#FARMERS, AGRONOMISTS, ADVISERS📣Help us fight the flea beetle and restore #oilseed rape to a secure position in the rotation! Complete this 10 minute survey today: https://t.co/ho3CsMz5u7
#farming #osr #oilseedrape
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Going into #Autumn the riches in conservation are seldom weighed in gold ! #enjoy still hundreds of butterflies yesterday we have as many common blues and small heath as in june @BC_Suffolk @DefraNature @s4r4h_l @savebutterflies @SuffolkRecorder
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Great article by @Mike__Abram on @GrahamDenny9 in @FarmersWeekly on his decision to exit stewardship after decades of building habitats on his farm. How many others like us have lost confidence in @DefraGovUK to manage these schemes? https://t.co/39CsAdMIrA
fwi.co.uk
Farmers are facing tough decisions on the future of environmental measures, as the Countryside Stewardship (CS) scheme will end by December this year and
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Aww pic with my PhD helper Meg 🪲💚 thanks @RoyEntSoc , I am honoured 😊
Huge congratulations to @kelly_jowett for bagging the @RoyEntSoc Alfred Wallace Award for her PhD thesis on carabid beetles in farmland 🪲🎉🍾👏 Interested in doing a PhD at Rothamsted? Check out current opportunities here 👇 https://t.co/3eq6UXT001
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Fantastic pictures as ever @GrahamDenny9 🤩 that is a beautiful Violet ground beetle!
One for @kelly_jowett so many beetles I should be doing you pit falls ! Lots to choose from and plenty of birds enjoying a feed ! Summer is not over yet till @carolkirkwood says ! @FarmInvertsUK @StevenFalk1 @BumblebeeTrust @MOTHIDUK @stuttonsparrows
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Farmers like me are ready to protect nature—but government silence is forcing us to destroy it. Years of conservation lost for lack of leadership. @SteveReedMP , act now before it’s too late. Open letter from @GrahamDenny9 to a Secretary of State https://t.co/1AVBBYDPi1
eastangliabylines.co.uk
Decades of habitat restoration will be lost without immediate stewardship funding. Farmers need clarity now, before nature pays the price
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Good to see our farmers confirming the presence of adder in 2 new locations in our east kent valleys project. Sightings at upper end of two valleys systems where never previously recorded – contiguous wildflower grassland networks, created by farmers, driving species recovery
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