There’s a short excerpt of Nature Within here: www.encounter-nature.com/features/nat... @encounternature.bsky.social In it, I describe how moths became my gateway to the natural world 🦋

Nature’s always listening Jelly Ear 🪼👂 #NatureWithin #fungus

Pixie-cup Lichen 🧚 #NatureWithin

I present to you the Catkinpillar 🐛 For a couple of weeks every March, I see them hanging out everywhere 🪾 (But mostly under poplar trees, bizarrely 🤔) #NatureWithin

Spring Snowflake ❄️ #NatureWithin

Everyone loves a book sale 😃

Female flower of the European Larch 💖 #NatureWithin

In a chapter of Nature Within entitled ‘Our Bipolar World’, I highlight the contrasting parental styles of the Parent Bug and the Dark-Edged Bee-fly 🪲 🐝 It’s variety like this that makes the natural world endlessly fascinating! 😊 #NatureWithin #Biodiversity #Nature

Leafminers ⛏️ #NatureWithin

Tree stump or time stamp? #NatureWithin

Meet the Shrooms 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 #NatureWithin

Male and female willow catkins 💛 💚 #NatureWithin

I’m still struggling to understand this one 🫤 #NatureWithin #Quote

A Vaulted Earthstar is born ⭐️ #NatureWithin

Moth tessellation

The allure of decay 🍂 🩶 🖤 #NatureWithin

Here are some upcoming events where I’ll be talking about #NatureWithin 🌳 🦋 🐞 🔗 Click the link in my bio to find out more

Coral Spot 🪸 🟠 #NatureWithin

Alder getting all da love 😜 #NatureWithin

A rare glimpse of a Goldcrest 👑 #NatureWithin

#NatureWithin #Quote

River Thames at Shiplake, Oxfordshire #NatureWithin

My first Peacock of the year 🥇 Full of rich reds, golden glitter and lilac eyes. A truly stunning butterfly 😍 #NatureWithin

Plenty of these around at the moment. The purple male flowers of the European Ash before and after opening. #NatureWithin #Tree #Flower

🎙️ Here’s an interview I did with Tony Errichetti as part of the Mindworks in Conversation series youtu.be/muAx_YGlqhc

Scarlet Elf Cup ♥️ 🧝 🏆 Seen yesterday in Turner’s Spring Nature Reserve, Essex. #NatureWithin #Fungi

Moss 💚 #NatureWithin

Two Vaulted Earthstars deep in conversation 🗣️ 🍄‍🟫 What on earth might they be saying? #NatureWithin

I popped by The Book Elephant this week to sign a copy of Nature Within📕 🐘 This is where we’ll be holding an event on 17th April from 6.30pm: tinyurl.com/book-elephant Please join us to discuss all things Nature and health! 🌳 🧠

Galls 💗 #NatureWithin

Pointy 🫵 #NatureWithin

I am very grateful to Tony Errichetti for his thoughtful review of Nature Within 🧐 @intimajournal.bsky.social The full review is here: tinyurl.com/intima-review

Saw these intricate patterns on ivy leaves recently. So-called chlorosis, I believe. But does anyone know the cause?

Beetle 🪲 #NatureWithin

We owe them a lot #NatureWithin #Quotes

I open #NatureWithin with an encounter in a Quebecois woodland 🇨🇦 Here are three of the species I met alongside an excerpt from the book 💬

Modelling the cosmos and imagining a future without meat: Books in brief www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Zebra 🦓 #NatureWithin

I caught up with a clan of Vaulted Earthstars this week 🍄‍🟫 🌍 🌟 Figurines rising from the soil 👤 #NatureWithin #Fungi

Parasol 🏖️ #NatureWithin

Gold 🥇 #NatureWithin

Old speckled egg

Pottery 🍶 #NatureWithin

Spiky 🦔 #NatureWithin

We are no exception #NatureWithin #Quote

Queues 🚦 #NatureWithin

Layered 🏢 #NatureWithin

The team at Stansted Mountfitchet library have been very supportive: 📢 Putting up a book display 📚 Ordering copies in 🗣️ Organising a talk (date TBC) Please ask your local library about #NatureWithin

🐸stool #NatureWithin

Round 🫥 #NatureWithin