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I have found one of the best organisms I have ever seen. Hololepta plana, which I have christened the Stupid Flat Idiot (intended affectionately, as one might refer to a sibling). Halfway between a beetle and a credit card. A dizzyingly wafer-thin beetle - like it's been run over in a cartoon.

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The @norfolknats.bsky.social species guide to the Psyllids of Norfolk has now been updated with 2024 data (251 records of 32 species - thanks to all who have submitted records). There are also new photos for Cacopsylla visci & Trioza chenopodii. norfolknaturalists.org.uk/wp/wp-conten...

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SWEET PRECIOUS BABY ANGELS

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51 mile cycle ride today checking on Sandy Stiltball Battarrea phalloides sites in Norfolk with @jeremybartlett.bsky.social Failed to find any at our target site having slogged south into the wind but then two random verges on the way home produced new sites. #Fungi #FungiFriends

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Here is your Wednesday Weevil. This cool little beetle is, I think, a straight-snouted weevil in the family Brentidae. I like the two antennae-like projections at the tail end - it kinda makes the weevil look the same coming and going. 🌿🐙 #insects (Borneo)

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In February and March 1600, William Kempe (Will Kemp) undertook his "Nine Daies Wonder", morris dancing from London to Norwich in nine days (spread over several weeks) often amid cheering crowds. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William... Wood carving by Mark Goldsworthy. Chapelfield Gardens, Norwich.

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Works as advertised

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We went on our very first #HiddenLondon tour today, deep under the bowels of Piccadilly Circus. Old signage, original Victorian-era brickwork, shades of the Blitz and creepy metal shafts. Ghosts everywhere. Thoroughly recommend, link to more info here www.ltmuseum.co.uk/hidden-london

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Looking almost like an inorganic object, like twisting green plastic emerging from the earth, this mutated green earth tongue, Microglossum viride, is probably the most unique earth tongue I've discovered. Green earth tongues alone are super cool to find, but this one takes the cake! 🍄📷 📸🎞 🌿🌱 🟢 🍄 📷

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Direct link to my Concise Guide to Norfolk Harvestmen. A more comprehensive guide can be found on the website of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society (updated version pending). arthropedia.co.uk/wp-content/u...

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I've just updated my Concise Guide to Norfolk Harvestmen. It covers the 25 species recorded in Norfolk in an easy to use format that is ideal downloaded onto a smart phone to use in the field. Follow the link on my website arthropedia.co.uk/harvestmen-2/

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A single hoverfly in Earlham Cemetery, a female Meliscaeva auricollis sitting on a gravestone. From the yellow pollen on her sides I think she had been visiting the nearby Winter Aconites. #Pollinators #Hoverfly #Diptera #Flies

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A bit of sunshine and spring is in the air in Earlham Cemetery with a pair of mating Pine Ladybirds. Also found my first Scymnus suturalis of the year, no. 12 on the #LadybirdYearList #Ladybird #Coleoptera

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Phone video of displaying Goldeneye at Carsington this morning. #ukbirding

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A bit of sunshine in chilly Norwich this week so visited my local greenspace which happens to be a cemetery. I record lots of insects here in warmer weather but for now I had to be content with admiring Winter Aconites and Snowdrops. @camself.bsky.social

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Another retirement present from my friends at @savebutterflies.bsky.social! British Moths by Nicole Bishop Art of Carlisle. Many thanks! 😊 #MothsMatter #TeamMoth

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Very excited to introduce the newest genus of wild sunflowers, a tiny desert annual covered in dense wool and heads with just two small ray florets. Ovicula biradiata, a new Composite from Big Bend National Park in Trans-Pecos Texas doi.org/10.3897/phyt... via @phytokeys.pensoft.net

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'Like a circle in a spiral Like a wheel within a wheel Never ending or beginning On an ever-spinning reel As the images unwind Like the circles that you find In the windmills of your mind.' - Alan & Marliyn Bergman (English lyrics, Windmills of your Mind) #birds #birdart

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Pretty much a cutie as far as I'm concerned

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Word of the Day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet individual whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

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Nice find! This was one of the fungi i was looking for when I worked for the 'lost and found fungi project' a Kew

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#FrogFriday

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I now have 300 of these back in stock if anyone's requiring one. Pics by @john-fielding.bsky.social and design by @typejunky.bsky.social 👇 waterlandbooks.co.uk/shop/

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Word of the day is ‘arsle’ (19th century): to have a distinct sense of going backwards.

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Here are some Fox cubs (in next door's back garden several years ago) as an antidote to horrible, dreary things such as the weather, Starmer and Trump. #Foxes

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Cold and grey today so spent some time with my Dicranopalpus specimens. This male from Felbrigg that I collected in December 2024 now confirmed as D. caudatus (as suspected). The glans of the penis always makes me think of the forehead of Moby Dick. #Harvestmen

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Some of my favourite #harvestman #opiliones shots from last year. Getting a good shot is tricky without a stray leg getting in the way😅. They're #arachnids but don't spin silk or have venom. They can't re-grow legs like spiders either and I often find them with several missing. #macrophotography

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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

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Flat-footed Flies might be tiny at 3 to 4 mm in length, but they're amazing little flies - the bright orange Agathomyia wankowiczii was seen #BBOWT's Bowdown Woods #FliesofBritainandIreland bit.ly/4dqQI8Z #gail_in_nature @flygirlnhm.bsky.social @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social

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Juvenile Rilaena triangularis harvestman and the springtail Monobella grassei under a log at Pigney's Wood, Norfolk yesterday. I under-exposed the photo in an effort to capture the pale peachy colour of the springtail but it didn't really work that well. #Harvestman #Invertebrates

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Zebra Pillbug 🦓 💊 Delightful. #Nature #Crustaceans

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The adorable newborn tapir calf is already mastering the art of wiggling its tiny trunk. 🥰 Baby tapirs use their tiny trunks for sniffing, exploring, and even grasping small objects. Their trunks are an extended upper lip and nose, which helps them sense their surroundings and forage as they grow.

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Would you believe that today is #NationalPotatoLoversDay / #PotatoLoversDay? Just look what I found at the back of veg rack. Solanum tuberosum 🥔❤️

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