Ian Senior

This microscopic freshwater organism, Limnias malicerta, is a rotifer, recognized by its rotating wheel-like structures. It uses spinning cilia on its head to swim and capture tiny food like algae and bacteria.

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'Your ghost' is still one of my fav Hersh songs. Interesting story behind it here too.

Morphological characteristics of Bolbitius corrugatus basidiocarp (holotype).

#NewSpecies!
A newly discovered fungus from #scotland for #FungiFriday:

Bolbitius corrugatus

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/038B87A3-...
Publication: doi.org/10.11646/phy...
#Phytotaxa #BolbitiusCorrugatus

#FAIRdata
#OA #ecology #nature #wildlife #conservation #fungi #mushrooms #mycology

Still awaiting the final id but stunnng nonetheless. especially under the microscope. Dendrostilbella Sp? Id suggestions very welcome for the larva group & a lovely hairy fungus on Beech Mast, (Volutella ciliata) @norfolknats.bsky.social @vannabartlett.bsky.social

Pseudopeziza trifolii ex Trifolium repens

#Pseudopezizatrifolii #Pseudopeziza #KleeblattScheinbecherchen #Trifoliumrepens #Trifolium #Weißklee #Whiteclover #Trèfleblanc #trébolblanco #trifogliobianco #mushroom #mushrooms #fungus #fungi #pilz #champignons #champignon #nature #natur #FungiFriends

Three tiny mushrooms with gray and white spotted tops rise from brown leaves. They measure approximately 1 inch/2.5 centimeters.

These tiny little mushrooms are called Tolypocladiums but I call them adorable. #FungiFriday

Yorkshire Dales sheep and cattle swap boosts biodiversity - studies Natural England began switching to cattle grazing at its Ingleborough site in the Dales in 2004.

"There's five times as many butterflies on cattle grazing sites compared with sheep grazed sites,"

@bcyorkshire.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Mandragora officinarum (mandrake) flowers blooming in Antalya, Turkey. It is a spring ephemeral flower in the Mediterannean and the fuzz protects the delicate blooms from frost.

Source: iNaturalist (tylototriton)

Marsupials previously thought extinct for millennia discovered in New Guinea The chances of finding one mammal species thought to be lost was ‘almost zero’ and finding two is ‘unprecedented’, biologist Tim Flannery says

"Flannery says the discoveries are evidence the Vogelkop was once a part of the Australian continent that had later become part of New Guinea."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The PCR positivity map is out, and positivity is up slightly in England, down slightly in Scotland.

Hotspots haven't changed, but the levels in those hotspots have.

jamestindall.info/skeuomorphol...

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Continuing the 'spectacular' theme, here's Early Meadow-grass Poa infirma on Hayling Island. Once a rarity restricted to the SW of England, it's now quite widespread and a guaranteed find here in coastal Hampshire. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Heterosphaeria patella. A small black fungus on a dead Wild Carrot stem.

Heterosphaeria patella. A small black fungus on a dead Wild Carrot stem.

Heterosphaeria patella.

A small black fungus that grows on the dead stems of Angelica and other members of the Apiaceae (Carrot family).

Found on a dead Wild Carrot stem at the allotment today.

www.outerhebridesfungi.co.uk/species.php?...

#Fungi #FungiFriends

Nice find. Is that a normal one in the background too?

Rhizanthes lowii "flower" photo by Ch'ien Lee, a terrible plant structure that looks like a free-range rectum, positively swarming with delighted flies

"flower" of Mitrastemon yamamoti from Suetsugu (2018), another stinky plant structure that attracts a VAST array of insects (including flies, beetles, cockroaches, orthopterans, etc) to come nibble its horrid pink flesh

reading up on holoparasitic plants, regretting it instantly

Such a lovely picture! #wildflowerhour people will love it too!

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.

This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.

Please spread the word.

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Eutypella dissepta

#Eutypelladissepta #Eutypella #Quaternariadissepta #Quaternaria #mushroom #mushrooms #fungus #fungi #pilz #pilze #champignons #champignon #nature #natur #FungiFriends

A 2000 year old barrel sponges in the Banda Sea spawn with the full moon, a rare natural spectacle of life. Found throughout the  
tropical coral reef environments in the Atlantic Ocean, these sponges grow slowly but can live for centuries or thousands of years in

An early 7 am vist yesterday to the Tower mustard site at Bromsberrow heath me Brian Laney and Tim Rich have been keeping habitat open with seasonally opening up bare soil areas the last few years ,various rossettes showing nicely,always good to natter along to each other as we work.

Splanchnonema foedans on Ulmus glabra

#Splanchnonemafoedans #Splanchnonema #mushroom #mushrooms #fungus #fungi #pilz #pilze #champignons #champignon #nature #natur #fungiFriends

Butterbur, Petasites hybridus, in flower on a road verge. A young flowerhead.

Butterbur, Petasites hybridus, in flower on a road verge.

Butterbur, Petasites hybridus, in flower on a road verge.

Butterbur, Petasites hybridus, in flower on a road verge. Heckingham church tower is just visible in the background to the left of the electricity pole.

Butterbur, Petasites hybridus at Heckingham, Norfolk, was looking good on today's bike ride.

Butterbur - Plantlife share.google/5avkL2BKBbiF...

A very early entry for #WildFlowerHour.

Tubular flower with dark yellow petals and reddish green calyx hang from a green understory shrub in a climate controlled conservatory.

🌱 Saw this beautiful Deppea splendens at the Huntington Library today. Believed to be extinct in nature (its home was the forests of Mexico that are now corn fields), this coffee relative lives on in various botanical gardens including here in California.

Pale yellow flowers

Cream cups, another #nativeplant SoCal

Glob-glob! Absolutely magical sea anemone larva (about 7 mm) from The Lombok Strait, Indonesia 🇮🇩

28/2/26 #OrchidsOfCyprus - Among the many highlights from today; a lovely flavescent example of the endemic #Orchid Ophrys elegans, and a trio of one of Europe's rarest #Orchids, Orchis punctulata

Civilisation is a house of cards. The bottom card is a flower. The card holding that flower in place? A bee. We spend billions searching for life on Mars while actively extinguishing the very life that enables us to exist on Earth. Wake up.

So, any other news yesterday?
Anything important?

Is it a coincidence that on the day Labour scrapped incentives for landowners to sympathetically manage the few remaining wildflower-rich grasslands, including ancient ones...Labour got a drubbing in the polls in Gorton and Denton.

Maybe no direct connection, but the direction of travel is clear.