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fayrnhawk.bsky.social
Plant pathologist with an interest in microfungi on plants, lichens, lichenicolous fungi and aquatic hyphomycetes.
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Elke MacKenzie was one of the great lichen researchers of her time. Yet all of her papers bear the male identity that society forced her to maintain for much too long.

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Wonderfully readable information written by @geoffrey311.bsky.social in the alternate texts for these photos. Great writing.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Using the fantastic Woodland Trust online Ancient Tree Inventory to work out where to look for lichens reliant on ancient/ veteran trees. ati.woodlandtrust.org.uk/tree-search/...

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A gorgeous but unusual photo of Polycauliona polycarpa. The lobes are very typical, it's just there aren't normally this many of them! In most thalli the apothecia totally obscure the relatively small number of lobes. Was this on slate @mothman60.bsky.social ?

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

A new mushroom microscopy video just came out - this goes into detail on how to prepare microscope slides and find various taxonomically significant features such as spores, cheilocystidia, pleurocystidia, pileipellis and more. youtube.com/watch?v=vMY2... #fungifriends #fungi #microscopy

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

Beautiful prose written about a unique landscape.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

In the underhangs below the stones of a north facing mortared wall the malachite green thalli of Botryolepraria lesdainii grow with the fern Wall Rue and spiders’ webs. Algal cells group in grape like clusters among septate hyphae with characteristic wide lumina #lichensBLS

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I think I need to buy another book!

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The slightly overhanging rock faces along the Vat Burn at Muir of Dinnet NNR are host to some characteristic lichen and moss species that I have not (or hardly ever) found further down Deeside. #scottishlichens #lichens #biodiveristy #scottishbryophytes #nature #geology

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Parmelia sulcata, Melanelixia glabratula, Phaeophyscia orbicularis, and Physcia aipolia. All from Wierzenica, Wielkopolska. All of them are common species, but common doesn't mean inconsequential. #lichens #porosty #fungi #grzyby #lichenology #mycology #lichenfriends

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Don't miss this subsidised learning opportunity. If your lichen journey is ready to develop 'from beginner to early intermediate level, grab this opportunity while you can! You won't regret it.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

As long as it’s safe, take a look at your local dying ash tree. You may find the script lichen Pseudoschismatomma (Opegrapha) rufescens on the trunk. It seems to have taken advantage of ash dieback to increase its range/ abundance.

submitted 38 days ago • 2 comments

It's always interesting to see different people's everyday techniques. I hold tiny samples still with pva glue but that's not water soluble so I cope with non-light-transparent pieces of glue on my temporary slides. I can make very thin sections that way successfully.

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

Such fun to explore lichens with friends I've only previously met on Zoom.

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Fascinating sounding talk on the lichens and mosses of archaeological and historical monuments coming up on 16th Jan from @scotwildlife.bsky.social! scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk/our-events/a...

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

Some of the fungi and oomycetes that infect Devil's Bit Scabious - keep a look out next year! #FungiFriends #PlantPathogens

submitted 74 days ago • 2 comments

An Irish Wildlife Manual on the rare habitat Calaminarian Grassland, which, in Ireland, is limited to areas around old metal mines. www.npws.ie/sites/defaul... #NatureConservation #IrishWildlifeManual #CalaminarianGrassland

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

We've a Rose blackspot MSc by research with #RHS plant health team and CCCU. www.canterbury.ac.uk/rose-black-s...

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Great to see these pathogens brought together. I often spot the Peronospora by the extra long leaf stalks and narrow, curled leaves that it causes. Infected leaves are usually a yellowed shade of green. Thanks @bitheolaidhe.bsky.social

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Wish I'd seen this in time for 1st January! Good luck to everyone who's taken up the challenge. I once did two plant disease records a day for 40 days. Challenging but fun.

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

In this new paper, Chris Preston reports results from a monthly recording of vascular plants in flower in the street flora of Cambridge. This could provide some useful seasonal context for the @bsbibotany.bsky.social #NewYearPlantHunt? www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... @bsbiscience.bsky.social

submitted 57 days ago • 2 comments

I just posted my in depth guide to pond dipping - for those who enjoy looking for pond life and those that might be interested in doing so :) youtu.be/OLQjl6dj2Hc #Bugsky #PondLife #freshwater #UKWildlife

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Check out our new Special Issue, which features 16 papers on the Grazing Effects on Vegetation: vegsciblog.org/2024/09/26/g...

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