Springtails living underneath a Jelly-ear fungus which in turn is growing on an old Elder #WildWebsWednesday

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

7-spot Ladybird sunning itself on an Ivy leaf. #WildWebsWednesday

This week’s #TheWinter10 - Common Field Speedwell, Groundsel, Yarrow, Hazel (flower & catkin), Stinking Hellebore, Primrose, Common Ragwort, Daisy, Dandelion & Red Deadnettle #WildflowerHour

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...

Horrid weather this week so didn’t go out looking for flowers but walked past the Stinking Hellebore growing by the village pond. #WildflowerHour

Tiny, but surprisingly hardy Nigma walckenaeri seen active while it was snowing! Think it might be drinking melted snow on this Ivy leaf. #WildWebsWednesday

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

Late for #WildflowerHour - #NYPH results. IDs in Alt text

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

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!

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

Rust, think Puccinia smyrnii, and leafmines, possibly from Celery Fly Euleia heraclei, both on Alexanders. #WildWebsWednesday

This week’s #TheWinter10 - Ragwort, Red Deadnettle, Daisy, Common Field Speedwell, Dandelion, Smooth Sowthistle, Groundsel, Primrose, Periwinkle & Yarrow #WildflowerHour

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/...

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

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.

This week’s #TheWinter10 - Primrose, Green Alkanet, Common Ragwort, Petty Spurge, White Deadnettle, Daisy, Smooth Sowthistle, Burnet Saxifrage, Dandelion & Yarrow #WildflowerHour

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...

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...

7-spot Ladybirds congregate and shelter on Yew. #WildWebsWednesday

A small spider, possibly Nigma walckenaeri, shelters from the rain under its web on an Ivy leaf. #WildWebsWednesday

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

This week’s #TheWinter10 - Common Ragwort, Yarrow, Dandelion, Groundsel, Burnet Saxifrage, a Fleabane, Ivy-leaved Toadflax, a white Sweet Violet, Red Deadnettle & Hogweed #WildflowerHour

Jelly Ear fungi growing on Elder #WildWebsWednesday

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

Some Snowy Waxcaps growing in grassland at a local churchyard #WildWebsWednesday #Fungi

Green Shieldbug, in its winter colour, on Ivy #WildWebsWednesday

This week’s #TheWinter10 - White Campion, Bristly Oxtongue, Herb Robert, Hedge Mustard, Nipplewort, Common Field Speedwell, Smooth Sowthistle, Comfrey, a Fleabane & Red Deadnettle. #WildflowerHour

A Tachinid fly (possibly Siphona sp) enjoying Yarrow. #WildWebsWednesday

Leafmine on Stinging Nettle, possibly from fly Agromyza anthracina #WildWebsWednesday

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...

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...

It seems to have been a good year for 7-spot Ladybirds. Seen so many of them and particularly on Ivy. #WildWebsWednesday

Crab Spider lurking behind an Ivy leaf #WildWebsWednesday

This week’s #TheWinter10 - Dandelion, Wild Carrot, Hawkweed Oxtongue, Groundsel, White Clover, Red Clover, Scentless Mayweed, Chicory, Ivy & Comfrey #WildflowerHour

Syrphus sp hoverfly enjoying a Dandelion. #WildWebsWednesday

Assumed Green Shieldbug nymph hunkering down, and well camouflaged, in between Ivy berries. #WildWebsWednesday

David Attenborough backs bid to buy £30m estate for wildlife conservation https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1d0x39x270o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

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

These wildflowers were seen growing in a sheltered alleyway this week: Smooth Sowthistle, Green Alkanet, Petty Spurge, Black Horehound, Black Nightshade & White Deadnettle. #WildflowerHour

Hairy Shieldbug seen on Nettles #WildWebsWedesday

Hoverfly enjoying the Ivy flowers #WildWebsWednesday

Dandelion, Yarrow, Ladies Bedstraw, Herb Robert, Common Toadflax & Common Knapweed seen in a local churchyard this week. #WildflowerHour

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)

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...

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?...

Hard-hitting quote from RSPB nails it! markavery.info/2025/10/14/r... Planning Bill amendments #poorprocess #legislativechaos #noclarity #cynical #planningshambles

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?

Ivy Bee and 7-spot Ladybird on the same Ivy flower head. #WildWebsWednesday