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Springtails living underneath a Jelly-ear fungus which in turn is growing on an old Elder
#WildWebsWednesday
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This week’s
#TheWinter10
feels like Spring is on its way. 😊 Stinking Hellebore, Hazel, Snowdrops, Yarrow, White Deadnettle, Ragwort, Daisy, Winter Aconite, Primrose & Red Deadnettle
#WildflowerHour
4 days ago
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7-spot Ladybird sunning itself on an Ivy leaf.
#WildWebsWednesday
8 days ago
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This week’s
#TheWinter10
- Common Field Speedwell, Groundsel, Yarrow, Hazel (flower & catkin), Stinking Hellebore, Primrose, Common Ragwort, Daisy, Dandelion & Red Deadnettle
#WildflowerHour
11 days ago
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martinswarren.bsky.social
17 days ago
The National Trust is halfway to their appeal to buy Giant Hill, one of the UKs top butterfly sites, also rich in insects and flowers. The last good habitat for Duke of Burgundy in Dorset. Please donate if you can
@nationaltrust.org.uk
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/support-us/a...
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Donate to the Cerne Abbas Nature Appeal
Donate to the Cerne Abbas Appeal so together, we can help restore the land, habitats and species that live there.
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/support-us/appeals/cerne-abbas-nature-appeal
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Horrid weather this week so didn’t go out looking for flowers but walked past the Stinking Hellebore growing by the village pond.
#WildflowerHour
18 days ago
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Tiny, but surprisingly hardy Nigma walckenaeri seen active while it was snowing! Think it might be drinking melted snow on this Ivy leaf.
#WildWebsWednesday
23 days ago
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Mark Avery
24 days ago
Guest blog - Ban Bio-beads by
@chriscorrigan3.bsky.social
of
@sussexwildlife.bsky.social
Blog
markavery.info/2026/01/06/g...
#sussex
#bio-beads
#southernwater
#hastings
#rye
#dollimore
@the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social
@eastsussexcc.bsky.social
@naturalengland.bsky.social
@strandliners.bsky.social
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Late for
#WildflowerHour
-
#NYPH
results. IDs in Alt text
25 days ago
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A coastal
#TheWinter10
some of which I guess are garden escapees - Red Valerian, Ragwort, Winter Heliotrope, Daisy, *maybe* Cat’s-ear, a Fleabane, Smooth Sowthistle, Periwinkle, Ox-eye Daisy & Cyclamen
#WildflowerHour
about 1 month ago
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BSBI Botany
about 1 month ago
Not sure whether to take part in
#NewYearPlantHunt
? Worrying that your
#WildFlowerID
skills won't be up to scratch? No problem: just use one of our spotter sheets for your area:
bsbi.org/take-part/ac...
Download & print it, or find all the spotter sheet plants on a ticklist on the
#BSBIRecordingApp
!
add a skeleton here at some point
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Natural Historian
about 1 month ago
Far too late for
#WildflowerHour
but ... Was looking in the Blackthorn for Brown Hairstreak butterfly eggs and found one starting to bloom and then the elusive egg
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Rust, think Puccinia smyrnii, and leafmines, possibly from Celery Fly Euleia heraclei, both on Alexanders.
#WildWebsWednesday
about 1 month ago
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This week’s
#TheWinter10
- Ragwort, Red Deadnettle, Daisy, Common Field Speedwell, Dandelion, Smooth Sowthistle, Groundsel, Primrose, Periwinkle & Yarrow
#WildflowerHour
about 1 month ago
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BSBI Botany
about 2 months ago
Great to catch up with top gardening broadcaster Marian Foster on BBC Radio Newcastle today. We talked about how plant records collected by citizen scientists e.g. during
#NewYearPlantHunt
&
#WildFlowerHour
fed into new
#GBRedList
. Catch it here 3hrs 28 mins in:
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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After downloading this pic of Ragwort I spotted a (sadly out of focus) little black beetle on a leaf between the buds and flowers.
#WildWebsWednesday
about 1 month ago
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RSPB
about 1 month ago
Absolutely shocking. We're offering an overall award of £10k for information that leads to a conviction in these cases. We need to make raptor persecution a thing of the past.
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This week’s
#TheWinter10
- Primrose, Green Alkanet, Common Ragwort, Petty Spurge, White Deadnettle, Daisy, Smooth Sowthistle, Burnet Saxifrage, Dandelion & Yarrow
#WildflowerHour
about 2 months ago
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BSBI Botany
about 2 months ago
We love the idea that wild & naturalised plants across Britain & Ireland are getting ready for the
#NewYearPlantHunt
! Ironing their petals, polishing their anthers... How about you humans? Have you planned your route & downloaded your spotter sheets? Helpful stuff here:
bsbi.org/take-part/ac...
add a skeleton here at some point
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Jack Wallington
about 2 months ago
Good morning, please can you share this petition by
@peatfree.bsky.social
to end peat sales - all previous petitions were for the Conservative Government, and we're now close to making this law with Labour so peat habitat can never be used again
actnow.peatfreepartnership.org.uk/end-peat-sal...
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Sign the petition to end peat sales!
No more delays: Let's get peat out of gardens once and for all. The time for uncertainty has ended.
https://actnow.peatfreepartnership.org.uk/end-peat-sales/
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7-spot Ladybirds congregate and shelter on Yew.
#WildWebsWednesday
about 2 months ago
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A small spider, possibly Nigma walckenaeri, shelters from the rain under its web on an Ivy leaf.
#WildWebsWednesday
about 2 months ago
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This week’s
#TheWinter10
- with lots of repeats from previous weeks: Common Field Speedwell, Red Deadnettle, Common Ragwort, Petty Spurge, Smooth Sowthistle, Burnet Saxifrage, Shepherd’s Purse, Yarrow, Groundsel, Daisy
#WildflowerHour
about 2 months ago
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This week’s
#TheWinter10
- Common Ragwort, Yarrow, Dandelion, Groundsel, Burnet Saxifrage, a Fleabane, Ivy-leaved Toadflax, a white Sweet Violet, Red Deadnettle & Hogweed
#WildflowerHour
2 months ago
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Jelly Ear fungi growing on Elder
#WildWebsWednesday
2 months ago
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Following the cold snap, this week’s
#TheWinter10
was hard to come by, but some sheltered spots reaped rewards: Mexican Fleabane, Creeping Buttercup, Herb Robert, Groundsel, Red Deadnettle, White Deadnettle, Petty Spurge, Burnet Saxifrage, Dandelion & Yarrow
#WildflowerHour
2 months ago
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Some Snowy Waxcaps growing in grassland at a local churchyard
#WildWebsWednesday
#Fungi
2 months ago
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Green Shieldbug, in its winter colour, on Ivy
#WildWebsWednesday
2 months ago
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This week’s
#TheWinter10
- White Campion, Bristly Oxtongue, Herb Robert, Hedge Mustard, Nipplewort, Common Field Speedwell, Smooth Sowthistle, Comfrey, a Fleabane & Red Deadnettle.
#WildflowerHour
2 months ago
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A Tachinid fly (possibly Siphona sp) enjoying Yarrow.
#WildWebsWednesday
3 months ago
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Leafmine on Stinging Nettle, possibly from fly Agromyza anthracina
#WildWebsWednesday
3 months ago
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Miles King
3 months ago
For anyone interested in Nature in the UK, this is really, really depressing reading. Despite all our efforts over the past decades (site protection, farming schemes), wild plants, an essential element of the natural world, are disappearing before our eyes.
britishandirishbotany.org/index.php/bi...
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A new vascular plant Red List for Great Britain | British & Irish Botany
https://britishandirishbotany.org/index.php/bib/article/view/195
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Adam Vaughan
3 months ago
A quarter of Britain’s native plants are now at risk of extinction The first update in two decades to a “red list” of plants found a substantial increase in the number of threatened species
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
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It seems to have been a good year for 7-spot Ladybirds. Seen so many of them and particularly on Ivy.
#WildWebsWednesday
3 months ago
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Crab Spider lurking behind an Ivy leaf
#WildWebsWednesday
3 months ago
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This week’s
#TheWinter10
- Dandelion, Wild Carrot, Hawkweed Oxtongue, Groundsel, White Clover, Red Clover, Scentless Mayweed, Chicory, Ivy & Comfrey
#WildflowerHour
3 months ago
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Syrphus sp hoverfly enjoying a Dandelion.
#WildWebsWednesday
3 months ago
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Assumed Green Shieldbug nymph hunkering down, and well camouflaged, in between Ivy berries.
#WildWebsWednesday
3 months ago
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Lesley
World News
3 months ago
David Attenborough backs bid to buy £30m estate for wildlife conservation
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1d0x39x270o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss
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Countryside Jobs Service
4 months ago
Charities’ plans for historic Rothbury Estate gain support from The National Lottery Heritage Fund to kickstart vital work on the ground -
@NorthWildlife.bsky.social
c-js.co.uk/4hmINNL
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Charities’ plans for historic Rothbury Estate gain support from The National Lottery Heritage Fund to kickstart vital work on the ground
The Wildlife Trusts alongside Northumberland Wildlife Trust have received initial support from The National Lottery Heritage Fund for the Rothbury Estate, it was announced today.
https://c-js.co.uk/4hmINNL
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These wildflowers were seen growing in a sheltered alleyway this week: Smooth Sowthistle, Green Alkanet, Petty Spurge, Black Horehound, Black Nightshade & White Deadnettle.
#WildflowerHour
3 months ago
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Hairy Shieldbug seen on Nettles
#WildWebsWedesday
3 months ago
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Hoverfly enjoying the Ivy flowers
#WildWebsWednesday
3 months ago
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Dandelion, Yarrow, Ladies Bedstraw, Herb Robert, Common Toadflax & Common Knapweed seen in a local churchyard this week.
#WildflowerHour
3 months ago
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RSPB
4 months ago
The Government has tabled 67 last-minute amendments to the Planning & Infrastructure Bill.‼️ Rushed through with little scrutiny, it’s a shambolic way to reform the planning system. It creates confusion, sidelines science and leaves nature dangerously exposed. (1/3)
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David Kleijn
4 months ago
Intensifying grassland management leads to massive loss of arthropod species. However, total arthropod numbers remain more or less stable. Many losers, few winners.
doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
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martinswarren.bsky.social
4 months ago
The new European Butterfly Red List is published today, with worrying findings. Over 1/4 (28%) of Europe’s 442 species are threatened with extinction or are close to being so. The situation is far worse for our 148 endemic species, 40% are now threatened or nearly so
www.bc-europe.eu/webpage.php?...
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Mark Avery
4 months ago
Hard-hitting quote from RSPB nails it!
markavery.info/2025/10/14/r...
Planning Bill amendments
#poorprocess
#legislativechaos
#noclarity
#cynical
#planningshambles
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Mark Avery
4 months ago
The latest Nick MacKinnon guest blog on failures of competence in plans for massive windfarm on Walshaw Moor
markavery.info/2025/10/15/g...
Scoping Report, rightly, gets rough ride from Planning Inspectorate. Would you invest in this lack of competence?
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Ivy Bee and 7-spot Ladybird on the same Ivy flower head.
#WildWebsWednesday
4 months ago
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