Photo of a cluster of a couple of dozen cream coloured, fan-shaped fungi growing on a dead, bark-free tree trunk. A pill bug is visible in front of the fungi.
A cluster of fungus, Panellus stipticus. #Newfoundland, Canada. Cluster is approx 8 to 10cm, left to right. #fungi #fungifriends
Without looking down a microscope, we can have no idea of the real range of biodiversity out there...
earthstars are some of my favourite fungi
Just look at those water-worn rocks...
Spotted a mating pair of Norellia spinipes - Daffodil Dung files in Birmingham this afternoon #UKwildlife #insects #files #Diptera @ecorecord.bsky.social
A Common Frog (Rana temporaria) sitting on a log. There's some dead reed floating in the water in front of the log, and some dead reed behind the log to the left. In the bottom right corner, there's some light green pond weed. The frog's partial reflection is visible bottom centre.
Forget about an elf on the shelf, look at what we've got! 😀
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Indeed a beautiful moth...
Marsh carpet moth - light and brown horizontal bands, resting on wood - credit Steve Clarke/UK Moths
Marsh carpet moth larva - green with dark bands, hunched on a plant stem - Neil Sherman
Common meadow-rue - tufts of yellow stamens, petal-less flowers. Credit: David Gould/NatureSpot
What kind of marshy carpet does a marsh carpet #moth prefer? One of common meadow rue! To support the return of this fabulous insect to the Great Fen, volunteers have been planting a new meadow habitat. Read all about it from Catherine Weightman! www.greatfen.org.uk/blog/guest-p... @wildlifebcn.org
Cedar Cups - Geopora sumneriana seen in Stourbridge #FungiFriends @ecorecord.bsky.social
Work to help my Flora Guardian plant Creeping Marshwort in Norfolk. Needs all the help it can get, Endangered status.
Hope this work is successful. Hard work to keep it going in the introduction sites here in Oxon. Needs close scything/cutting regularly.
Wood Anemones were responding to the early March sunshine in many Dorset Hazel coppices today.
Just wonderful.
#Dorset #Spring #Nature
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Slender Pond Snail (Omphiscola glabra), highly characteristic of seasonal pool complexes on remnants of common land in Vale of York/Humberhead Levels. Globally Near Threatened. Typically occurs with the more widespread White-lipped Ramshorn (Anisus leucostoma) & Moss Bladder-snail (Aplexa hypnorum).
I celebrate good restoration of pools everywhere..
The advance of brambles in almost every nature area I study or work is a big worry to me. Cut them yes, but only the tree popper pulling out the roots gets rid of them, and it is really slow work. Repeated cutting through the year might do it?
How temporary might that wetland be?
Let's hear it for the Sphagnum mosses, sundews and butterworts! Go peat free.
The Large Scabious Mining Bee Andrena hattorfiana needs our help...plant more scabious everywhere there is suitable soil for the bee to nest in
Marsh fritillary larvae out and busy in the morning sun. North Dorset. @dorsetbutterflies.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social
Dark-edged or Dotted? 🐝
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An animal that can photosynthesise by stealing chloroplasts from its food plants......How clever, and how wonderful is our biodiversity?
And here's the two-handed scrape-seeding dance being expertly performed by a volunteer at Rock Edge! The Wild Marjoram was the last seed to go out.....Followed by a light rake to settle the seed in.
The photo shows a number of small white flowers clustered on dark twigs. There are out of focus flowers and twigs in the background.
Remarkably we've got a young Blackthorn that is already in full flower, along with our Cherry Plum! (And yes, this one is Blackthorn.) #WildFlowerHour @judywebb.bsky.social
A lot of frogs getting busy spawning in Lye Valley ponds!
Look how important crocus flowers can be for Queen bumblebees in early spring...
Fly time is coming again. I like this little, neatly patterned shore fly
Bearing you in mind. Depends if we achieve grant funding for a project here in Oxon, fen species.
Beautiful blues and greens in such old glass.. and the demon as well!
"Diversity within species contributes to ecosystem functioning and represents an often-overlooked layer of biodiversity."
#Biodiversity - we have so little understanding of what we are trashing
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Look ! fascinating video of how scarlet elf cup fungi disperse spores..
