Gary W Hartley
Writer: Bugs, biodiversity, farming and odd lit. Work in The Observer, New Scientist, Scientific American, The Times, Farming Future Food etc.
Retired sardonic stand-up poetry guy.
Perennially mildly-disappointed #lufc fan. Half-hearted ground hopper.
- Today, in Gary's Wild World of Sport:
- Flashbacks to my @hau-entomology.bsky.social MSc project nearly getting derailed by swathes of my ladybird population turning into wasp-hugging zombies. #bugsky
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- From my experience, I'm saying it's one of the most successful parasitoids out there. As if the harlequins needed another advantage in their takeover
- £5800 fine or a year in prison for the gang. www.bbc.com/news/article...
- Pitiful deterrent
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- I'm forever amazed Bielsa felt he could work with them. Maybe he saw a daft fanboy he could effectively manipulate
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- The most obvious pair of chancers that have ever lived
- Absolute torture. Classic #lufc
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- I'm always ready to be thoroughly disappointed by lufc, one way or another. They do more things classless than classy, let's be honest
- @hoppersguide.com Hi, I enjoy a groundhop from time to time, when I'm not writing about bugs and other creatures, see bsky.app/profile/gary.... Can you add me to to your starter pack, maybe?
- Very much enjoyed chatting to @believemepodx.bsky.social this morning. Apologies for pivoting from the X-Files to #insects at every possible opportunity. Looking forward, with more than a little trepidation, to the coming episode. #podcast
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- I fear the film's cultural cache may not be what it once was!
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- That was a suggestion with tongue deeply in cheek...
- We could also try "Like 'Alien', but more beneficial" with certain audiences
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- Yeah, at a knock-down price for squad depth Rothwell's common sense, agreed that it would be a little worrying if he was starting next season. I do fear Solomon won't be priced appropriately for his injury record and divisiveness
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- Buendia would be ideal. Solomon and Rothwell only at fairly bargain prices I'd say, though I imagine Spurs will be looking for some sucker to roll up with 25m for the former
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- I own that one but never have the self-confidence to wear it in public
- Are things that extreme? I'd say quality keeper(s), striker, midfielder, #10 and replacement if Firpo leaves are the big ones.
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- In a Wilder v Lampard playoff, however, I'm behind Wilder all the way
- Research from @smnstuttgart.bsky.social shows #LLM #AI chatbots reflect typical human biases about insects: - Bees/butterflies good, wasps bad - 'Bees' restricted to honeybees, 'wasps' to yellowjackets, underplaying masses of vital species onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1... #bugsky #scicomm
- You can read a bit about the hard graft and serendipity involved in @royentsoc.bsky.social's efforts to save the large blue butterfly in this piece I did for The Observer (@theguardian.com) a few months back. www.theguardian.com/environment/... #conservation #bugsky
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- Always try to do my bit for the bugs
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- Why do people keep signing that guy like he's some sort of legitimate footballer?
- Coming to you live from Wiener Viktoria v Favoritener AC in the Austrian Regionalliga Ost. Why aren't you here? AstroTurf, factory as backdrop, excellent. #groundhopping #Vienna
- Missed the only goal of the first half composing that post. Stay off your phones, kids
- Coming to you live from the Czech second tier's bottom club Zbrojovka Brno. Why? It's just wrong W for international lower league football enthusiasm, I find. You've got to admit, we've got some great clouds for this one. #groundhopping #masochismsky
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View full threadMy main analysis is they're imperious at winning corners, awful at doing stuff with them
- It was all going quite well until Zbrojovka's centre half nodded into his own net without an opposition striker within five metres #groundhopping #badfootball
- A giant flag, a random pitchside prestige vehicle and an ambulance, what more do you need
- Absolutely wild story, this.
- Just spent 10 minutes in Maribor, commemorating the length of Darko Milanic's reign at #lufc
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- His agent is doing god's work
- We all need a colourful scorpion fly to start the week, don't we. #bugsky
- The headline isn't everything, I haven't become sort of anti- #rewilding ranter. I took a look at everything from independent species releases to small community groups buying land. Read on www.theguardian.com/environment/... #nature #biodiversity #wildsky
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- I tried to address it a little, here. I've also asked if an edit to at least the sub-head is possible, so we'll see
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- I absolutely don't. That's in the piece. All the quotes from groups, agencies etc are positive about the community work My intention was to look at how the concept has moved closer to home, in different ways. No malice. I don't love the headline or sub fwiw
- Excellent commemorative plaque of snark in #Croatia
- Spent much of the day in the Slovenian subterranea. Met some top quality leggy bois #bugsky #cave #spider
- Full respect to the chutzpah of these lads in #Ljubljana, laying cable on the tracks in a fully open and operational train station.
- Eggs? Medication? Ljubljana's got them and more, in vending machines.
- The greatest victory of escape rooms is you can't escape the things anywhere you go on earth.
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- I don't need to read the article to know YouTuber
- #Vienna does a great line in municipal football goals that look like jail cells.
- Here, have some jellyfish. You deserve them
