Phlox multiflora, our Flowery Phlox, blooming now on the Green Mountain West Ridge trail #nativeplants 🌿

Mousetail Myosurus minimus in SE Hampshire this afternoon. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

“The UK’s new pandemic preparedness strategy – and ending the country’s contribution to the Pandemic Fund as part of aid cuts – raises serious questions about whether the UK can protect itself”

It’s official: the UK is rejoining Erasmus! 👏🇪🇺

The whopping bee aggregation is one of the largest and oldest ever recorded, according to a new study

Hepatica (Ranunculaceae: Hepatica spp.) is a genus of flowering perennials native to northern Europe and Asia as well as eastern North America. Also known as liverworts, these short plants flower early in the spring. North Country Trail near Pittsford Michigan, 12 Apr 2026.

Finally, a real smasher in my eyes. Viola riviniana f. luxurians. @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

Dune pansies (Viola tricolour) with yellow flowers and purple spurs. Heath violets (Viola canina) purple flowers and yellow spurs. From sand dunes in Anglesey. #wildflowerhour

As the 🌞 came out I thought I'd get a few photos of our county flower - the gorgeous Pasqueflower... The vivid, purple petals are actually sepals! These are in Cambs, but the ones just over the border in Herts will be amazing at the moment. Maybe the weather will still be nice at the weekend... 🤞

Small-flowered Buttercup (Ranunculus parviflorus) is found in several areas on Dungeness NNR It has just started flowering in the last few days and yes it is small #wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Wood Melick, Melica uniflora, may be my favourite grass, is just coming into flower in the village woods #WoodlandPlants #WildFlowerHour

I don't need much persuading to go on a #WoodlandPlant hunt! This week's #WildflowerHour challenge gave me the perfect excuse this afternoon to go and check on my local Early Purple Orchids, Orchis mascula. They are just getting going, but there was one beautiful stand out specimen. 😍

An afternoon on the allotment: Norfolk Comfrey Symphytum x norvicense & Common Ramping-fumitory Fumaria muralis looking good #wildflowerhour

Hairy Woodrush, Luzula pilosa, in the village woods #WoodlandPlants #WildFlowerHour

First British orchid of the year for me - a perfect Early Purple-orchid in its usual location at Bedford Purlieus NNR - it gave much joy to my trainee botanists who'd never seen one before :) #WoodlandPlants #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Toothwort, in an ancient woodland in north Dorset #WoodlandPlants #WildFlowerHour

Rue-leaved Saxifrage, just because it's one of my favourites and I look forward to seeing where it pops up every year. This year this tiny spring gem has chosen the top of a low wall on my street #WildflowerHour

White honesty on yesterday's Norfolk Flora group meeting @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

Great excitement on finding smooth rupturewort on yesterday's Norfolk Flora group meeting @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

Bird cherry @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

Wood spurge @bsbibotany.bsky.social #-wildflowerhour

Water Avon @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

Bugle @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

Goldilocks buttercup @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

Bluebells in wood @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

A small but exceptional Naked Man Orchid (Orchis italica). Saw this hyperchromic stunner in central southern Crete 12.04.26 #orchid #orchis

Govt backs re-introduction of Golden Eagle to England. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

HISTORIC HEAT IN COSTA RICA/Tiquicia 🇨🇷 Crazy MINIMUM 29.8C at Puntarenas HOTTEST NIGHT IN COSTA RICAN HISTORY Records of High Minimums also broken in Mexico,El Salvador,Honduras,Nicaragua,Panama,Colombia,Ecuador,Peru and Chile. And we have no Nino,imagine what will 2027 be.

Nine years ago today 🌿 Mertensia lanceolata, our Prairie Bluebell, blooming on the Towhee Trail #nativeplants

Nine years ago today 🌿 Lithospermum incisum, our Plains Stoneseed, blooming on the Towhee Trail. Not as common as our Mouse-Ears, recognizable by its fringed corolla #nativeplants

New mahogany species found in Zanzibar — but fewer than 30 trees remain.. news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

Found an attractive green form of Serepias orientalis in eastern Crete today (12.04.26). Special bonus invertebrate on the plant - in the form of a Dwarf Mantis! #orchid @withylake.bsky.social

My adventures in Crete are definitely turning into an epic. Today I found the Cyclops! OK, so it's an interesting variant of Ophrys heldreichii, but please allow me a little poetic licence 😉 #orchid

An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death

🌍 Morchella vulgaris 🇬🇧 Yellow morel 🇩🇪 Morchel 🇨🇿 Smrž 🇸🇰 Smrčok 🇵🇱 Smardz #morel #morelmushrooms #morchella #morelseason #mushroomphotography

Fungi around the year in the UK, today's great find, Spring Hazelcup (Encoelia furfuracea) here in Kent. Not a common find, so a pretty exciting one. #fungifriends #fungi #mycology #naturephotography

Ribes aureum, our Golden Currant, blooming now in Boulder county #nativeplants 🌿

Last month was full of climate extremes around the world, and it can be hard to summarize it all. Even temperatures for the #Antarctic region were at record high levels Using data from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social ERA5 reanalysis.

#BlueSkyArtShow #New #macro #mycena #mushroom #mycology #thelittlethings Brand new mycenas... @geertje-geertsma.bsky.social

Super happy to find more Goodyera macrophylla today, 9/10/2025, @1000m in the laurissilva forest of NW Madeira 🤍🇵🇹

Stumbled across many hundreds of Ophrys bombyliflora along with some beautiful O.flavicans, O.incubacea and a possible hybrid. Countless Himantoglossum robertianum... <30m asl in coastal scrub / olive groves near Vodice, Croatia. 25/3/2026. 💜🇭🇷

Spring Squill infected with Antherospora tractemae #FungiFriends #WildPlantDisease

The first national-scale study of its kind, led by UKCEH, has found detectable microplastics in moss at 94% of UK rural sites surveyed. Lead author @richardkcross.bsky.social discusses the findings & importance of such surveys as production/use of plastics increases. 🔗 tinyurl.com/yc2acct4 🧪 1/

Great display of Snake's-head Fritillary (Fritillaria meleagris) at Iffley Meadows in Oxford at the moment. Listed as Vulnerable on the Vascular Plant Red Data List for GB, this is one of only around 30 sites in the UK where they grow wild. #WildflowerHour @bbowt.bsky.social #nature #photography

Beautiful rain lilies (Zephyranthes atamasca) are blooming in our freedom lawn after recent rains. Freedom lawns are free from: pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers, & over-irrigation. They are mowed less often & allowed to go dormant. Read: greengardeningmatters.blogspot.com/2021/05/our-...

Meanwhile in ending free movement for UK citizens once and for all news. 👉 www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/young-e... #BrexitOpportunities

Anacamptis collina may look a little dull from a distance. However, when you get in close and the sun is shining - then it's an absolute dazzler! Prina, Crete, 09.04.26. @withylake.bsky.social #orchid

ABSOLUTELY EXTRAORDINARY 4TH consecutive day >30/33C in FRANCE 22 stations >30C today APRIL RECORDS 31.5 Sabliers 30.6 Moules 30.3 Le Boulou 30.1 Montarnaud 26.5 Scilè 25.4 C. Millet Western/Central Europe has been smashing hundreds of records,excluding Italy-like all previous months

Found fungus weevils at lunch today for the first time. They were bigger than I expected!

A few more Spring Bees & a Wasp - Small-notched Mason Wasp (Ancistrocerus gazella), Grey-patched Mining Bee ♀︎ (Andrena nitida), Small Nomad Bee (Nomada flavogutatta) & Ashy Mining Bee ♀︎ (Andrena cinerarea) @norfolknats.bsky.social