@robin ince Just got back from a preliminary assessment where it seems I am probably auDHD. After initally worrying about it before hand the experience was quite fun. I am weird but really ok with that, just looking for help some areas. Your book really helped me feel ok about myself. Thank You

Is this Xanthogramma pedissequum? (this was suggested by iRecord) Just noticed it while cutting back brambles @sorbynathissoc.bsky.social

Surprised to see a single twayblade in flower in the small front lawn of a terraced house at station road, woodhouse. Then noticed a dog being stroked behind the window by unseen person as I peered at their lawn @sorbynathissoc.bsky.social s

@ukorchids.bsky.social Hi. I am very confused by marsh orchids (northern or southern), I live in Sheffield on the distribution border. This plant was posted on local botany whatsapp group and I am unsure which it is

@bsbibotany.bsky.social Hi. Someone posted about Flora of Derbyshire being available as an ebook from BSBI. Had a look and yes and a real bargain. Oh Receipt says I bought the Flora of Derbyshire then Download link is for Flora of Isle of Wight In hope I clicked hoping.... But no it is IoW..

We have a camouflaged #MondayMystery for you this week... can anybody identify what our colleague Ion spotted in #Worcester recently? ✨ Tip: you might need your spectacles 🥸

very small caterpillar of Brimstone Butterfly in the characteristic resting pose along the mid vein of the leaf. seen this morning in Richmond Park, Sheffield. Alder Buckthorn, one of the food plants, was planted here some years ago to attract the butterflies.

After months of work my Norfolk Pseudoscorpion guide for @norfolknats.bsky.social is now on the website free to see/download. Covers 20 species recorded in Norfolk so hopefully useful for other areas of UK. norfolknaturalists.org.uk/wp/wp-conten...

🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🌳🌲🌿🍃🐡 Star anise (Illicium verum) has anethole, characteristic flavour in cookery & drinks. Another compound from tree, shikimic acid, was industrial precursor to oseltamivir (Tamiflu) from 1990s until recombinant (GM) bacteria developed mid-2000s. People need plants! #BUC2026

@octopus.energy Thank You. Gas Meter just removed ! Went fully electric after heat pump install and switch from gas cooker to electric. Now hopefully that pesky gas standing charge will disappear.

Irreplaceable wildlife sites are at risk of being lost, with no new sites of special scientific interest (SSSIs) having been designated since 2023. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

It’s April 10, and that can only mean one thing. YES, THAT’S RIGHT! It’s the 370th anniversary of Jón Jónsson and his son Jón Jónsson being burnt at the stake in Iceland for attacking a priest (called Jón, obviously) with witchcraft and for casting fart spells on a girl using fart runes 🧵

I love working for the Species Recovery Trust, a small group of passionate conservationists working to save a whole range of species from Field Cow-wheat & Forked Spleenwort to Green Tiger Beetle & Tormentil Mining Bee. We’ve a new account on BlueSky & I’d be chuffed to bits if you give us a follow

Lovely to be able to share this 18th-century bound herbarium for a workshop on botany and the book, funded by the Isaac Newton Trust and Trinity College, Cambridge. We’ve also digitised the volumes, so everyone can take a look! cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-...

@octopus.energy Hi. Had a heat pump installed last week and now the gas combi boiler has gone I just have a very old gas cooker with very low gas usage. I guess the standing charge each day is going to outweigh my annual cost. Is it possible to disconnect the supply and move to an electric cooker?

Thought I'd try Leechpool Woods for Firecrests after @wwres.bsky.social put the idea in my head. 3 encounters, this one so close I had to step back to focus, stayed in the open for ages. No call recording used to attract! @sussexwildlife.bsky.social #firecrest #Horsham #birds

@octopus.energy Hi. I wanted to have a heat pump installed but the system proposed by octopus wasn't possible so I had to cancel but have yet to receive confirmation of the email I sent requesting cancellation.

@robinince.bsky.social I can not sleep, so glanced at my phone. Noticed something of interest but may have forgotten by morning so mentioning it now. Someone shared this on bluesky and it is fascinating. I need to know more. bsky.app/profile/rebe...

Hi @bsbibotany.bsky.social do you have an update on getting records onto the database? This has been mentioned again in the local botany whatsapp group.

Hi, would just like peoples thoughts on this. Several Years ago I tagged along on a visit to Anston Stones Wood. Noticed this on a high rock outcrop and pointed it out as Brittle Bladder Fern, which I had seen before in Derbyshire. photos.app.goo.gl/KQtQv6c4uJzV... @bsbibotany.bsky.social

@octopus.energy I noticed something called givback and wondered if its worth trying? Have batteries (for solar) and would like to help by discharging power when its most needed

Help needed. Yesterday I noticed a small upright shrubby looking plant. Went to look and it had a restharrow like flower though mainly in seed, got hold of it for a picture and ouch, unexpected spines. Is it spiny RH? Never seen one, or something else? @bsbibotany.bsky.social

I promise not to ask too often, but if you could help Small Son and I raise funds for The Miscarriage Association we'd really appreciate it. We are going to be doing a sponsored walk on the 12 October and all donations are very welcome via our fundraising page. www.justgiving.com/page/p-boynt...

Is it time to leave facebook when Lee Anderson and Elon Musk like your comment? Does that mean you are added to the list?

@robinince.bsky.social Yesterday after seeing so much negative stuff in the world I noticed this and it made me feel better. bsky.app/profile/andy...

I picked up some acorns the other day. One was particularly well formed. So...

Noticed some clumps of bearded couch next to a stream in a wooded area. Decided to use iRecord to put a record in and as I was doing so it came back with Brachypodium sylvaticum as the most likely candidate with elymus caninus second choice. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

In the past 15 years soft shield fern has started turning up in and around Sheffield. You wouldn't know this from the distribution map brown squares are records from 2020 onwards and mainly showing in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire @bsbibotany.bsky.social

@bsbibotany.bsky.social Is it possible to produce a uk wide distribution map of records from 2020 onwards? With separate colours for vc recorder records and other peoples? I am trying to understand why the few records I send in never appear on the mapping.

Doubt I would have noticed Water Chickweed if it wasn't in flower and it's the first time I have seen this plant. Last week. at Woodhouse Washlands, Sheffield. #WildFlowerHour

@plantlifeuk.bsky.social Hi. I have been concerned about plant records for the last year or so. If we want to conserve plants we need data - records; and also access to them for people who need to know what is on the ground when making decisions.

@octopus Do you have an import tariff for charging home solar batteries overnight from the grid in winter like charging an electric car. I have an export tariff that is working well and would like to keep. I would also like to keep control of my own battery as much as possible

Late for #WildflowerHour and late as I saw these #UrbanPlants last month. Two grasses growing together

Discover the power of citizen science! Join Dr Sammy Mason on 9 July to explore how @mammalweb.bsky.social is transforming mammal monitoring with 2M+ camera trap records and a growing community. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1349516232... 🧪 🌍 #MammalWeb #CameraTraps #CitizenScience

@bsbibotany.bsky.social some of my plant records are taking a long time to transfer into the BSBI database. I only realised when looking at online mapping, several months is ok, but is it acceptable to wait for years?

@robinince.bsky.social Hi Robin. Have you encountered this book, The Light Eaters ? Someone recommended it but the cover seems to suggest plant intelligence and that rings alarm bells. Is it worth looking at or not do you think, if you have heard of it

@robinince.bsky.social I always like reading or listening to your books. I wasn't expecting this one to resonate quite so much. Weird?, yes, I remember borrowing books on everything from the library as a kid rather than playing football. Thanks for sharing so much, its really helped.

Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal is officially out tomorrow - so pleased to get these reactions from Chris Packham, Camilla Pang and Lucia Osborne Crowley Robinince.com

This week Hitchin Nature Network launches the Great #Hitchin Bee #Orchid Hunt. We need your help to map Hitchin's Bee Orchids. Pls send email to [email protected] incl. co-ordinates on what3words.com. If they're on Council land, they've agreed not to mow them when they are flowering.

Just seen my first male Hairy Footed Flower Bee of the year. It was moving too fast for a picture

Out today, hope it’s well received.

@haggewoods.bsky.social Hi Linden. Do you know what the difference is between Sasa palmata and Pseudosasa japonica? Someone just asked if the plant he found is one of those

Surprised to see an Earwig with her eggs at this time of year. This is soil along side of a plant pot that was exposed when I tried to clear pot of weed seedlings and pot fell away. I have replaced the pot to keep them safe

Great thread giving more detail on the work we have been doing with @wildjustice.bsky.social ! Read it and weep, and then let's figure out how to right this wrong.