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These #fungi add a much needed splash of #colour to the #woodland at this time of the year. 🍄:Scarlet/Ruby Elfcup 🔬:Sarcoscypha sp. 📍:Birmingham UK #macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #fungifriends #mushroom #fungus #mycology #elfcup #saprotroph

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Been rekindling my love for #bird #photography in the last few weeks and I have always had a soft-spot for this #species 🐦:Nuthatch 🔬:Sitta europaea 📍:Birmingham UK The nuthatch uses mud to shape the entrance to their tree cavity nests. #woodlandbird #woodland #bird #nuthatch #nature #wildlife

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Here's a pretty little mushroom I found in my lawn I thought you #fungifriends may like. Not 100% with the I.D. so if you know better let me know! 🍄:Moss Bell 🔬:Galerina hypnorum 📍:Birmingham UK #macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #fungi #mushroom #fungus #mycology

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Today I am feeling super proud to have one of my photographs awarded Highly Commended in the @royentsoc.bsky.social photography competition 2024. 🔬: Anoplophora zonatrix 📍:Kerinci Seblat, Indonesia #macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #longhorn #beetle #insectweek #indonesia

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I hadn't had the pleasure of finding these suede beauties before. I found this cluster whilst #coppicing an old overstood Hazel stool. 🍄: Spring Hazelcup 🔬: Encoelia furfuracea #macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #fungifriends #fungus #mycology #hazel #cupfungi

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Hoverflies are often mistaken for #bees or #wasps, but these #dipterans have no ability to sting you. This is entirely intentional evolutionary trait known as Batesian mimicry. 🔬:Syrphinae sp. 📍: Worcestershire, UK #macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #hoverfly #hoverflies

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Some #moths look so #fluffy up close. These 'hairs' are actually modified scales which are individually pigmented aiding #camouflage. 🐛:Silver Y 🔬:Autographa gamma 📍:Birmingham UK #macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #moth #lepidoptera #wildlifephotography #invertebrate

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I found this #cricket whilst on a night #trek in a #jungle in #westsumatra, #Indonesia. The dew drops #magnify the striking markings on the wingcase. 🦗:Nisitrus insignis 📍:Kerinci Seblat, #Sumatra #macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #indonesia #kerinciseblat #jungletrek

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I am appreciating the form of #fungi at the moment. This glorious collection were high up, but I couldn't resist the #photo. Can you see the lurking #shroom? 🍄:Oyster 🔬:Pleurotus ostreatus 📍:Birmingham UK #macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #fungifriends #fungus #mushroom

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Here's a photo of a cool #fungi for all you #fungifriends. This #mushroom was on the same branch of as one of my previous posts. 🍄:Winter Polypore 🔬:Lentinus brumalis 📍:Birmingham UK #macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #mycology #fungus #mushroom #mushroom

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The #spiral shape is found frequently in #nature and is very pleasing to the eye. This is because they follow the #goldenratio, this formula has informed #art. 🐌:White Lipped Snail 🔬:Cepaea hortensis 📍:Birmingham UK #macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #snail #snails

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Wishing you all a happy #NewYear! I'd like to share my favourite #photo of the 2024 season. This #bee was in my #wildflowermeadow make #wildlifegardening your 2024 #resolution. 🐝:Cellophane Bee 🔬:Colletes sp. 📍:Birmingham UK #macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #bees

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

Some #weevils are astonishingly #beautiful. I love the #iridescent rainbow colours this particular #weevil has on its #exoskeleton. 🪲:Aspen Leaf Rolling Weevil 🔬:Byctiscus populi 📍: Worcestershire UK #macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #beetle #coleoptera #rainbow #colors

submitted 77 days ago • 1 comment

The term #bug gets banded around colloquially to mean all #insects but to #entomologists the 'true bugs' are members of the order #hemiptera. 🪳:Green Shieldbug 🔬:Palomena prasina 📍:Birmingham UK #macroaddicts #green #macro #invertebrate #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #shieldbug #stinkbug

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#Ragwort (Jacobaea vulgaris) is often over zealously removed despite being a poplar choice for pollinators. It is also essential to one day flying #moth with a striped #caterpillar. 🐛:Cinnabar Moth 🔬:Tyria jacobaeae 📍:Birmingham UK #macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife

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Here's a little #bee I found foraging on yarrow earlier this year. 🐝:Blood Bee 🔬:Sphecodes sp. 📍:Birmingham UK #Bees in this genus are known as #cuckoobees, which are brood #parasites. Laying their eggs in other solitary bee nests. #macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife

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This #fungus has massive #genetic plasticy due to its over 23 ,000 mating types. 🍄:Split Gill 🔬:Schizophyllum commune 📍:Birmingham UK Their unusually divided #gills are characteristic. #macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #fungifriends #mycology #fungus #mushroom #fungi

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

I sometimes also photograph #birds, here's an Amber Listed Species from the #UK 🐦:Stock Dove 🔬:Columba oenas 📍:Birmingham UK This species nests in cavities within trees. #nature #wildlife #bird #wildlifephotography #woodland #wood #tree #forest #birdphotography #rspb

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

What's that? It's #flyfriday? Go on then.. I found this fly sat on my bag whilst on a jungle trek into Kerinci Seblat National Park. 🪰:Phytomia zonata? 📍: #Sumatara, #Indonesia What do you think of it's cool eyes 👀? #macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #diptera #fly #flies

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It's #Winter here in the #UK so with few insects around to photograph I have turned to an emerging passion for the season #fungal #photography 🍄:Winter Polypore 🔬:Lentinus brumalis 📏:Cap ~2.5cm 📍:Birmingham UK #macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #fungifriends #fungi #fungus

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

Blown away by the response to my last post, I think I have finally found my community in #bluesky I'd like to say hi! I'm Doug, a #nature lover and amateur #wildlifephotographer who loves #macro. I work in #wildlifeconservation in the UK and love #walking and #travel. #newtobluesky #community

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Some #mushrooms exude slime, the stipe of this #fungus looks almost glass like. The wet appearance gives this #fungi its common name. 🍄:Dripping Bonnet 🔬:(Roridomyces roridus) 📏:Cap ~8mm 📍:Birmingham, UK #macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #mycology #mushroom #fungifriends

submitted 88 days ago • 4 comments

This #butterfly is near identical to another which shares a similar distribution and habitat, the Essex Skipper. Brown tips on the anttenna separate them. 🐛:Small Skipper 🔬:(Thymelicus sylvestris) 📍:Birmingham UK #macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #butterflies #lepidoptera

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

I find the social hierarchies of insects fascinating, #ants are a great example of an #superorganism within which each individual has a defined role within the society. Slave-Maker Ant (Formica sanguinea) #macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #hymenoptera #ant #socialinsects

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

Here's an impressive #fungus I found last year whilst conserving a #sssi #grassland. Meadow Waxcap (Cuphophyllus pratensis) #macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #fungifriends #westmidlands #mycology #waxcap #hygrocybe #fungi #conservation

submitted 92 days ago • 3 comments

#Beetles are the most diverse group of insects and of them the #weevils are one of my favourite. Acorn Weevil (Curculio glandium) The elongated snout (rostrum) is used for boring into plant material, females of this species lay their eggs in #acorns. #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife

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Another beautiful #fungi for you today, in a less usual colour, blue. Blue Roundhead (Stropharia caerulea) 📍Birmingham, UK #birmingham #macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #fungus #fungifriends #mushroom #mycology #wildlifephotography

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The distinction between a #moth and #butterfly is not as simple as their presence in day or night. Here is a day flying moth: Six-spot Burnet (Zygaena filipendulae) 📍: Dudley, UK 📅: July #macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #lepidoptera #nature #wildlife #moths #westmidlands #moths

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This is one of my favourite photographs of a #lemur from my trip to #Madagascar in 2023. Whilst on a #jungletrek we encountered this sleepy Lemur resting in a hole in the tree. Sportive Lemur (Lepilemur sp.) 📍 #Kirindyforest #Wildlifephotography #nature #wildlife #endemic #primate #jungle

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Jumping spiders see the world very differently to us. For starters some have #tetrachromatic vision allowing them to see #UV light. Their large front eyes (AME) have two lenses allowing them to zoom like a telephoto lens. #macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #indonesia #travel

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Some #fungi are incredibly tiny requiring keen eyes to spot, this #mushroom has a cap measuring only 3mm 🤯 Holly Parachute (Marasmius hudsonii) 📍 #Birmingham UK The cap and stem are covered in bristly hairs (setae) #macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #fungifriends #mycology

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Shiny Woodlouse (Oniscus asellus) #Detritivores play an important role in #ecosystems when it comes to nutrient cycling. Woodlouse are not actually insects as some believe but #isopods an Order of #crustaceans. #woodlouse #isopod #macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment