r/UKecosystem Mar 12 '21

Mod post Welcome to r/UKecosystem

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Welcome to the community!

About

r/UKecosystem is a place to share the wild landscapes, wildlife, and flora you see and love in the UK, talk about UK conservation or rewilding efforts, discuss ways everyone can help the UK environment and wildlife (litter picking, gardening, petitions, citizen science...), etc

Ecosystem;

"a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment."

We have the beginnings of some wiki pages, but they are a work in progress.

Related subs are in the sidebar, or see r/ecosubreddits.

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r/UKecosystem Jul 16 '25

Chat thread Weekly chat

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Hi all, fancy a chat?

Let us know what wildlife, flowers, or fungi you've seen this past week. What have you been up to to help the environment lately - anything new? Seen any good on topic shows or research? :


r/UKecosystem 2d ago

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

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


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

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 3d ago

Sighting Hummingbird Hawk Moth

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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

Sighting Common hawker vs Gatekeeper

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


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

Invertebrate A House centipede in Kent

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r/UKecosystem 4d ago

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

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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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The arm one will be fed to a labrynth spider soon


r/UKecosystem 6d ago

ID please Delightful muncher

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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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Lots of cheeky flies too.


r/UKecosystem 12d ago

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

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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 What’s this caterpillar/moth/butterfly?

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r/UKecosystem 13d ago

Question Any idea what this is?

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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

Question Hover flies

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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

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

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r/UKecosystem 14d ago

Invertebrate A Red Admiral landed in my garden

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r/UKecosystem 14d ago

ID please Newt larvae/Eft ID

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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

Invertebrate Pondskater and a brimstone

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r/UKecosystem 14d ago

Flora Send me photos of native plants getting big

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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 🫪