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4AD nut, shoegazer, ex Plant Biologist now Web Developer at Oxford Uni. Committee Member of the Friend's of Earlham Cemetery. Fungi botherer & flora finder with some of Norfolks best botanists & field mycologists Mastodon: @[email protected] Twitter: @Ians4AD
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Cistus Forester moths from Limestone sites in North Wales. #InsectWeek

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The wonderfully gaudy Large-flowered Hemp-nettle is out at #RSPBLakenheathFen. This patch has gone from one plant to over 30 with management.

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Fortunate to witness an astonishing spectacle at the beach tonight: tens of thousands of (mainly Small) white butterflies pouring in over the sea, as far as you could see. Pulses of butterflies swept in-off everywhere, an extraordinary sight. @linnetincley.bsky.social @norfolknats.bsky.social 1/2

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Solitary #bee caught by #wasp. It will become food for the wasps offspring.

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Pantaloon male solitary #bee in the garden today

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I'll soon be releasing a small update for Aggi's Tiny Friends which adds more variation to your cell's googly eyes 🦠🧫🔬🎮 #protistsonsky #gamedev

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Extinct moth rediscovered by @savebutterflies.bsky.social ecologist after 73 years by accident... butterfly-conservation.org/news-and-blo...

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Day two at Braunton Burrows: Water Germander Teucrium scordium in slacks, Centaurium erythraea v capitata (a coastal form of Common Centaury) in dunes and Yellow Bartsia Parentucellia viscosa in fixed dune grassland.. and a view from the top of the dunes

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Today’s other highlight - Pheasant’s-eye Adonis annua. A tiny ruby jewel in a the most wonderful field margin

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Yellow Centaury Cicendia filiformis. After finding plenty yesterday evening, had to head back to the New Forest today, in full sunshine, to see these diminutive delights in their full glory. Looks like the recent rain has led to a bumper crop. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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A hyperchromic Southern Marsh Orchid (Dactylorhiza praetermissa) from Braunton Burrows 16.06.25. Very intense colour, and a contender for my top find of the 2025 UK orchid season! 😀 #orchid @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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Some of the botanical highlights from day one at Braunton Burrows: Dune Pansy Viola tricolor ssp curtisii, Sand Toadflax Linaria arenaria, Slender Clubrush Isolepis cernua and Small-fruited Yellow-sedge Carex serotina

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Male Norfolk Hawkers from a very hot weekend. NEW photos @ marcheath.blogspot.com. @britishdragonflies.bsky.social @dragonflydamselfly.bsky.social @smallshire.bsky.social #Teamdragonfly

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Enjoyed an afternoon hunting the @breakcharity.bsky.social safari animals around #Norwich today. 29 found to date.

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Popped by to see another of my favourite wildflowers today. It has no leaves and indeed it contains no chlorophyll! This super-cool botanical vampire - the Ivy Broomrape, Orobanche hederae, obtains all of its nutrients from the Ivy plant that it parasitises! #ParasiticPlants #wildflowerhour

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Great to see Small White Orchid at Tromie Meadow on Friday. Good to see 5 spikes which is more than I saw last year. @ukorchids.bsky.social #wildflowerhour #orchids

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Visited an exotic new arrival in VC53 early this morning... Lizard Orchids have such extraordinary flowers - graceful spiralling lips, a hood subtly patterned in shades of complimentary purple and green, but with just a touch of the sinister... #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social #orchids

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Spring Sandwort at peak flower on old lead mining spoil in the Yorkshire Dales today. More information on this very particular plant on the BSBI Atlas 2020 page plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9... #WildflowerHour

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@wildflowerhour.bsky.social Not an aquatic plant I’m afraid but this week’s exciting spot was a patch of twinflower - within walking distance of home - in the Cairngorms. Beautiful, but smaller than I’d imagined. #wildflowerhour

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Fox and cubs in Earlham cemetery @godsacre.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

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Common spotted orchid from yesterday's Norfolk Flora group meeting @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

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Bog pimpernel @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

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Treacle mustard from yesterday's Norfolk Flora group meeting @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

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Foxglove @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

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Marsh helleborine @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

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#WildflowerHour Sea Holly Broomrape, Sea Holly, Isle of Man Cabbage, and Sea Spurge @ Crosby Dunes #botany #sanddunes

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Nordic Bladderwort, Utricularia stygia, in a Dorset bog. #aquaticplants #wildflowerhour

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Ahoy hoy from Kent, here is our #WildflowerHour submissions: Yellow bartsia

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First Ospreys breed in East Anglia for centuries.. www.norfolkwildlifetrust.org.uk/news/first-o...

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Impressive numbers of the nationally scarce Isle of Man Cabbage found yesterday in Crosby Dunes, Merseyside #botany #SeftonCoast #Sanddunes

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It's Gladiolus ilyricus time in the New Forest, Hampshire. Hidden amongst the dense Bracken, three plants found at this site today. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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Last few Orchids from the same early morning visit . Amongst the hoards of Common Spots and Fragrants and Pyramidals were 5 Hybrids ,lightly spotted leaves and scented @ukorchids.bsky.social @sylvatica2024.bsky.social

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Another two bites at the peloric Lesser Butterfly Orchid Platanthera bifolia today. Staying with friends in the New Forest, and with time to mooch about for lovely things. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social

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This is how strange we orchidiots are. A day at Noar Hill amongst a riot of orchid colour, and I post three green photos? Oh yes, 2xMusk and a Frog. Yummy.

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Guaranteed to brighten your day - Maiden Pink (Dianthus deltoides), Breckland, Suffolk

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So I finally joined Bluesky. I'm just back from an amazing Wiltshire flora group residential trip to the Suffolk/Norfolk borders. Some amazing plants, but Aristolochia hirta, breckland birthwort was the most out there plant we saw. Thanks @bramblebotanist.bsky.social for showing us around.

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AMAZING NEWS!!!! Known from less than 10 places in England and just one site left in Cheshire, this beaut saltmarsh flat-sedge (Blysmus rufus) was found for the first time today on Hoylake beach on Wirral!!! So exciting eeee 😍🌱

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A few of us mad Wilts Bot Soc folks met up in the heat wave this morning. But we were rewarded with finding these monsters. Orobanche elatior forma citrina.

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A fantastic find by #NorfolkFloraGroup botanists - the yellow form of Ivy Broomrape Orobanche hederae f monochroa on a mid-Norfolk road verge. A very welcome addition to the county’s flora.

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Some 'proper' camera shots of x Dactylodenia evansii. Taken in the New Forest, Hampshire 20.06.25. Please see the ALT text for more details on this fascinating and scarce hybrid orchid @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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4 Gold-tailed Melitta males roosting in the musk mallow this evening. There were 5 or 6 about today so the others must be lurking nearby. #SolitaryBees

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Found several colonies of Green-eyed flower bees (Anthophora bimaculata) within a few miles of home today. Another reason to love #Ragwort. #SolitaryBees

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Turns out Andrena florea males also like to roost in/on flowers. In their case, their associate, white bryony.....#SolitaryBees

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The boys are back in town! Male large scabious mining #bees have returned to my garden again this year.

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