The Buff-tailed bumblebee has been chosen to feature on the new banknotes – and received the most public votes! 🐝💵 🎉 From a shortlist of 18 UK wildlife species, the Buff-tailed bumblebee attracted an un-bee-lievable 360,399 votes. A big thank you to everyone who voted for this iconic insect.

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Having seen the news: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... thought I'd share a cilia movie captured at UCL GOS ICH with Eriomina Shahaj & Vanesa Papastavrou using simple DIC on a Nikon Ti2 with DIC at 60x1.4. 500 fps here slowed down 20 times. Processed with Nikon's denoiseAI and an unsharp mask in Fiji.

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'Can we comprehend a place suspended between life and death? Do we want to?' Dead nor alive, safe nor dangerous, beautiful nor dreadful, bogs are thresholds that refuse categorisation, writes @queenofpeat.bsky.social, in an extract from her book 'Boglands' www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/09/bogl...

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