Lovely woodland bank of wildflowers on yesterday's walk along the River Leven checking the local Yellow Star-of-Bethlehem population with @wonkyeggs.bsky.social Also found Sand Leek and Field Garlic in leaf

Wes Streeting having the chutzpah to tell the story about the NHS. He doesn't tell the bit about how much he's accepted from private healthcare and the risk our NHS is at under this Labour Government. And most of all, lots of questions about his meetings with Palantir. #BBCQT

UN report logs 972 human rights defenders slain in Colombia since 2016 FARC peace, 100 yearly amid drug wars and weak state grip. Indigenous bear 23% deaths despite 4.7% populace, impunity devours justice raw. #Colombia

Plenty of #WhiteFlowers out there for the #wildflowerhour challenge this week! See ALT text for details of my favourites including that lovely white Violet. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Imagine that everything he promised his base turning out to be a lie. Shocking. Just shocking.

Canadians are currently living above a 🔥Burning🔥 Meth Lab

Moss makes an excellent seed bed. Rosette of Primula veris, Cowslip.

Starting to think the British press aren't coping too well with the Green Party wanting to tax wealth fairly. Join.greenparty.org.uk

More clips and extended clips as well. The Nightmare Begins is going to be a fascinating watch youtu.be/QvwUrJAuAHk?...

It's no longer OK for you to sit in the house of Lords because your dad did. But if your mate put you there? That's fine. Neither of these really feel like democracy to me.

Can you find any wild or naturalised plants that have white blooms? That’s the #wildflowerhour challenge this week! Share your finds this Sunday 8-9pm using the hashtag #WhiteFlowers. Happy flower hunting! @bsbibotany.bsky.social

I’ve been following the British state’s interest in censoring Irish music group Kneecap. Unlike far right campaigns* about ‘cancellation’ & ‘woke’, Starmer’s lawyers are >really< trying to censor art & remove freedom of speech. Such authoritarian actions have no place in a democracy.

My local road verges are looking absolutely Sweet Violetastic at the moment. 😍

In the greatest liberation since the US bombed a girls’ school, and bombed it again when rescuers arrived, the Epstein axis has bestowed the ultimate liberation on the women of Tehran. www.normalisland.co.uk/p/women-of-t...

#WildflowerHour #SignsOfSpring Primrose, Barnard Castle, County Durham

BREAKING: The US has confirmed those 168 school girls and staff were liberated by a Tomahawk missile and their rescuers were liberated by a 2nd Tomahawk in a "double-tap". That's two liberations for the price of one. If you don't support this, I can only assume you hate freedom.

One of many Small Nettles today from an arable field edge, some with flowers in their axils. Near Perranporth for #wildflowerhour Urtica urens

Spring Beauty under a planted Beech hedge in #Cambridge #WildflowerHour #SignsOfSpring

What did the Romans do for us? They forgot to take Alexanders with them when they left in 410AD. Early flowers from where it is invading a #Cambridge hedge. #WildFlowerHour

Purple toothwort in @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social. #WildflowerHour

Wood Anemones have opened along verges close to woodlands #SignsOfSpring #WildflowerHour Although they still seem somewhat subdued, perhaps the weather isn't ideal and we haven't had much sunlight for some time

More Cherry Plum trees have blossoms! #SignsOfSpring #WildflowerHour

Postcard from the field from our fabulous orchid tour leader, @thenewgalaxy.bsky.social, on our #OrchidsOfCyprus tour: Yesterday's highlights included these two Asiatic #orchids, on the very edge of their world range - dramatic Epipactis veratrifolia, and Orchis punctulata. Exciting finds!

If any image sums up what we love best here at Team Mariposa, it's this one from tour leader @thenewgalaxy.bsky.social today - a lovely, fresh Paphos Blue on Anacamptis syriaca, the sophisticated cousin of Green-winged Orchid. We can't think of any better thing for a butterfly to sit upon.

The Wild Daffodils, Narcissus pseudonarcissus subsp. pseudonarcissus, at Lesnes Abbey Woods are looking spectacular at the moment. 💛 #WildflowerHour #SignsOfSpring

"Look at me, I've got 14 petals!" There is always one show-off ...... 🙄 Lesser Celandine, Ficaria verna, at Lesnes Abbey Woods. #WildflowerHour #SignsOfSpring

Primrose #WildflowerHour

Green Hellebore for @haggewoods.bsky.social #WildflowerHour

Sweet Violet #WildflowerHour

Some male Dog's-mercury flowers from me for #WildflowerHour with both fresh closed and older open anthers showing in actual focus and honestly modern technology is amazing because it was windy and I am not the most stationary of people when holding a phone

Spurge-laurel in full flower - it's got a really long flowering season hasn't it? - in a very steep-sided wood near Rievaulx Abbey, North Yorkshire #WildflowerHour

I could try and say something relevant, topical, profound even on the general state of everything. However what I feel I need is a small, purple, Sea Lavender Weevil. So here it is. #Nature

Can anyone think of a native grassland creation project that really surprised and impressed you when you saw it? Asking because the ROSALÍA performance at the Brits last week was both & so I wondered if we could point to something that good but in grassland creation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fyu...

Very chonky Bee Orchid rosettes in the sun on a traffic island in central Middlesbrough yesterday

How better* to celebrate #WorldBookDay than an early emergence of one of the very first copies of Mariposa co-founder and tour leader Jon's new book at his local library? We hope it sparks an interest in butterflies for kids all over the world. *apparently Jon should have dressed as a butterfly...

Spotted this fallen cherry tree with several impressive Ganoderma brackets at the base #FungiFriends #FungiFriday

Very interesting! Thank you @beccyscottuk.bsky.social theconversation.com/the-black-de...

Dear Shabana, Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

Rustyback, Asplenium ceterach, a rare plant in #Suffolk. 10 year old record in @bsbibotany.bsky.social database, with OS grid ref as though it was on #BuryStEdmunds Cathedral wall but a case of 'it's behind you' in sunken area round Norman Belltower, plus Heart's-tongue. #FernFriday

A few days ago we announced 200,000 members. The Green Party has 215,000! 🚀 Join us making hope normal again: Join.greenparty.org.uk

Manufacturing legitimacy. #NYTimes #Iran

Had a great day out with @bcyorkshire.bsky.social coppicing Hazel at a Duke of Burgundy site nr Hawnby. There was lots of Primrose coming through underneath, and lots of it with feeding damage from Duke larvae. @savebutterflies.bsky.social @northyorkmoors.org.uk

John Healey: Iran must return to the route of diplomacy as thats the way to secure peace. Oman, which was mediating talks between the US & Iran, said on Friday that a peace deal was within reach. The next day the US & Israel attacked. Healey is treating us all like idiots.

An independent investigation is needed for the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school massacre in Minab. The culprits, whether it's the US, Israel, or Iran, need to be brought to justice in an independent international court, and the truth must be protected.

A Juniper Shieldbug, having a rest on my wheelie bin the other day.

"When you get a regime like this [Iran], lashing out in the Middle East, indiscriminately and widely, hitting civilian as well as military targets" This is the UK defence minister talking about an illegal and unprovoked attack *on Iran*

So the US & Israel attack Iran & the RAF then defends the bases & countries from where those attacks were made so the US & Israel don't suffer any consequences and can launch further attacks. This makes the UK complicit.

THIS.