sarahwhild.bsky.social
Card-carrying botanist, retired academic, biological recorder, did some work on FISCs, lurks in Shrewsbury
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Motivation, I’d say. I’m writing something at the moment on lists, numbers, recording, and why we find them an incentive. But it can get a wee bit obsessional too, I’ve heard…
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Entertaining AND erudite! I’ll be demanding back pay… 🤣💚
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Ooh! I want a Figwort Weevil! Are they fussy as to species?
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Never dig out a hawthorn…
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Wowza - congratulations! Will order a copy forthwith! 💚🪲💚
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I think we had your share in Shrewsbury!
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Nice lawn! 👍
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Not for a long while!
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You’re a star!
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My husband certainly regards his support for Shrewsbury Town as an act of charity…
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Got to love a good cloud!
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I haven’t issued a vc40 visa to Paul for a while but that’s now with John and Mags!
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This HAS to be in vc40! Still not found it… @pilning.bsky.social
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Ah - it is x contempta - I did wonder when I saw your FB post - but what an utterly stunning display! 🤩💚
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Fantastic! Let’s hope there’s some sensible debate
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Ooh! Classy!
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No, but it wasn’t ancient woodland. Yet to see it this year
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Ah, just seen the shamrock post - in that case Trifolium dubium
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A bird’s-foot trefoil of some sort
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Tardigrades get my vote every time (need a tardigrade emoji!)
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Aw, thank you! I enjoyed lecturing and still miss it! Not the marking though… 🤣
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Thank you, George!
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That’s great news! 💚🌱🪲🌱💚
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🤣🤣🤣
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Robins are going for it in #Shrewsbury as well as Blackbirds, and Stock Doves are now being drowned out by Wood Pigeon.
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They aren’t! The only ones that survive are Tête-à-tête so I buy new bulbs each year…
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That is sad, and the same here. They were usually the first queens on Lonicera fragrantissima but now lucorum and terrestris so far and nothing else ☹️
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Oh wow - as an undergraduate I was shown this little dude by David Harding who taught us entomology. Stunning creature!
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That must be the cutest composite ever! Stunner!
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Buff-tailed Bumblebee queens on Winter Honeysuckle 🐝 💚
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Rob, I’d love to use this map in a forthcoming book on biological recording - can I dm you?
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Why are we surprised… 🤦♀️😱
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The wise woman goes when she can - the fool when she has to…
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Thanks Martin - that’s what I would have guessed at but I didn’t want to disturb it. Get lots of them in the garden 👍
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No, not a hawk moth - too small and no horn tail