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On the beach at Holme-next-the-Sea at low tide, a collection of creatures new to me. A lovely person over in that other place ID’d them as Botrylloides leachii, colonial sea squirts. #UKwildlife #nature #shore #NorthNorfolk

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A wild rose stem wearing its fetchingly bright orange jacket - the rose rust fungus Phragmidium #fungus

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Never been to Magdalen Hill Down, Winchester so early in the year before. Cowslips everywhere and the scent was simply gorgeous. #wildflowers

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Spotted these fine looking Dryad’s Saddle (Polyporus squamosus) in a local park. Wish I had stooped down to give it a sniff after reading that it can smell like watermelon when young! #fungi 🍄

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Local greenway now accessible in all weathers so we’ve bedn walking there more regularly. One big old tree trunk with different stages of the slime mould, commonly known as the False Puffball, Enteridium lycoperdon. #slimemould #UKwildlife #nature

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A much warmer, cloudier night brought these two beauties to the actinic trap. The Streamer (Anticlea derivata) both flushed with fresh moth purple. #moths #mothsmatter #teammoth

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Multi-species gravestone. My attention caught by the brightly coloured apothecium. Blastenia crenularia? #lichens #fungi

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Lovely green lacewing (Chrysoperla cornea group) visiting our moth trap and taking a break from scoffing aphids. So difficult to get a good photo! #UKwildlife #ento #lacewing

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Blossom really getting going here now. Blackthorn and Cherry Plum looking very fine #wildflowerhour

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Not uncommon but the first I have seen locally, the moss Cryphaea heteromalla. Also slime mould Metatrichia floriformis. Thanks to @southamptoncc.bsky.social who have put an all-weather path thru Shoreburs Greenway. #urbangreen #urbannature #slimemould #moss

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A fine porcelain bowl, 1cm across. Peziza, Ciboria or something else entirely?

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What a day! Beautiful still, frosty morning. Hares in the fields and skylarks singing.

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That’s definitely the guilty moth right there 🤦‍♀️ #moths

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Sleep not to be mine tonight.Thinking of the fab Christmas card @tillingtonchum drew for me. December moth #teammoth #ento

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Female friends who speak language other than English…. Would you be willing to record yourself saying the words “a thousand women’s voices” in your language please? If you can say it a bit poetically…… that would be great! It’s for a wee gig with @slampreasoprano.bsky.social Thank you!

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Looking through, a frosty view.

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Every day in nature is a learning day for me. Walking past a bench and saw this - Illosporiopsis christiansenii (bright pink) a parasitic fungus growing on the lichens there. #fungi

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Thanks @robyaxley.bsky.social and @norfolknats.bsky.social for a lovely friendly and educational event at Felbrigg Park today. Can I lower the tone and ask if this is Enerthenema papillatum?

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I'll be audible (speaking, not playing) in this www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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A cold day at Boldrewood in the New Forest, but the slime moulds don’t care #slimemould

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Good to see Schizophyllum commune, the Splitgill #fungi as the recent cold weather seems to have curtailed many. 🍄 📷

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A less remarked-upon difference between this site and the other one that improves the dynamic is that here you don't get likes for RTs. I assume, maybe it's just that no one's ever liked any of my RTs here

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Mistook this for a slime mould at first, but closer inspection revealed it was Fenugreek Stalkball (Phleogena faginea). It’s meant to smell of fenugreek, but my ‘closer inspection’ wasn’t that close! #fungi

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How do we identify earthworms? People assume it is based on colour and size, but to differentiate between UK species we look at features such as the prostomium, make pore, clitellum, tubercula pubertatis and setae spacing. 🧪 #earthworms #annelida #taxonomy #worms #biology #naturalhistory

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A curious object seen on oak bark at Wheatfen. I suspect it’s just lodged in the bark, having fallen off something else. Any ideas? 3mm ish across.

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Anyone able to point me in the right direction for an id? Only 4mm across but the strong colour attracted my eye. On fallen silver birch in Foxley Wood. #UKwildlife

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We have three corvid species which regularly visit the garden, tempted by our monkey nut feeder. Jays are the most adept at nut grabbing with Magpies now close behind, but Carrion Crows just seem not nimble enough. So they wait in the trees as I throw some on the lawn. Smart! #birds #UKwildlife

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These Sulphur Tuft have gone over to the dark side #fungi

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Daedaleopsis confragosa brightened up another grey and misty day 🍄 📷 #UKwildlife

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Fomitopsis betulina, the Birch Polypore, may be common but this was a real biggie! 33cm at the widest point 🍄 📷#UKwildlife

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