'Beltsville Agricultural Research Centre', Maryland - I was privately commissioned to memorialise the BARC by a past employee after learning it will be shut down by the USDA after over 100 years of research. They wanted to focus of this aerial embroidery to be the field plots... 1/3 (see thread)

Other work by the Ladybird artists. ‘Wren’ Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

One to add to the canon of 'mushrooms in art'.

Very nice little exhibition at Haslemere Museum, on the museum's origins. Including some delightful memorabilia for E.W. Swanton fans.

People waste their time on which identically bitter IPA is better, when they could be enjoying the infinite variety of good apples.

Has anyone access to Mycologia Memoirs? I am looking for the species descriptions of #AquaticHyphomycetes: Matsush. Mycol. Mem. 7: 70 (1993) and Matsush. Mycol. Mem. 2: 19 (1981). Somehow it seems that nobody ever bought these or if so threw them out long ago. #Mycobookclub.

School book belonging to a 12-year-old. Village near Tolosa, Basque Country, 1966. "In school I must not speak Basque" 1,000 (one thousand) lines. Via @KikeAmonarriz. And a recent picture of the boy Lontxo Zubeldia via Naiz. Should be a museum exhibit on the realities of Francoism.

Catching up on this lovely idea, since I'm eternally behind on posting my stuff on bluesky. Day 1. Hello! #repostyourart

Cuckoo Flower, Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

Good morning - I hope you slept like a bird's-foot-trefoil-stuffed dingy skipper - I'm starting with 'Spirit of the Southern', Harry Stevens, acrylic on canvas, 1969. Have a splendid day.

The current status of bryophyte recording in Sussex. 133 000 records. Few areas are now totally unrecorded, but there is still a fair bit of work to do. The earliest records date from about 1700, but most are from the late 1980s onwards 1/2 @bbsbryology.bsky.social @sussexwildlife.bsky.social

Here they are (Zygothrica sp) going at it to defend their mushroom kingdom. El Refugio, Intag, Ecuador

Exciting fungi book news: Ascomycete.org will publish the first volume of a series of books titled Pézizomycètes d'Europe this year. Edited by Nicolas Van Vooren, with contributions from specialists from several countries #MycoBookClub #FungiFriends

Edible and poisonous mushrooms: London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1894. (source: http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2905285) #nature #illustration #art

How I plan to enter the weekend in true 1660s style. #weekendsky

a question for #Botany Bluesky: is there a definitive list of sub-shrubs native to Britain? Thanks

Just to prove that people will write books about... everything!

The shelves have been burning it's been flying off them so fast! 🔥 Another cracker from Geoffrey Kibby, have you got your copy yet? www.summerfieldbooks.com/product/cup-...

Fortified by dog wee and wine, this Shepherd's Purse, Capsella bursa-pastoris, is growing strong and tall in a tree pit on the mean streets of Croydon.

Fun with aquatic hyphomycetes: Fay Newbery's @fayrnhawk.bsky.social Field Mycology article is an engaging introduction to this understudied group of microscopic fungi, which break down plant material & prevent clogged waterways. See the treasures in river foam here: doi.org/10.63482/044...

I just voted for UNEARTHED: The need for seeds in the Webby Awards. ... and not just because my boss is in it, I genuinely thought it was great. 100% would recommend 👇 vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting...

Great article by @donnalferguson.bsky.social in today's @theguardian.com about Darwin & Henslow's plant specimens & illustrations and the fab new @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social Certificate in Botany: www.theguardian.com/environment/... Links for this course & many others here: bsbi.org/learn/traini...

Pysanky, the Ukrainian art of egg decorating. www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/p... This book is from 1968 and you can find it in full here

An engaging and in-depth article on the BBC website about Golden Oyster mushrooms, on the rampage in the UK also. ▶️ www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Barometer Earthstar Astraeus hygrometricus. This fungus is associated with trees, English Oak at this site. A hygroscopic layer inside the rays causes them to open in damp conditions which are beneficial for spore dispersal. Stover Country Park, Devon thanks @2turrell.bsky.social

During a sunny shower today this drake Teal turned on its metallic green with a turn of its head...

I've loved seeing Jasper's article on Resupinates coming together in this issue of Field Mycology. Check it out 👇! You'll never look at a crust fungus the same way again 😍 #FungiFriends

So, BlueSky, one of my passions is the study of tea in WW2. I need you to watch this oral history from three ex-tea ladies from the Bermondsey WVS. Because you could guess for ONE THOUSAND YEARS and you would not guess where it is going... #skystorians #history #tea

Full marks for entrepreneurship, but I'm not convinced there's much of a market...

Drawing of a book scorpion from 'Pseudoscorpions' by Gerald Legg & Richard Jones, Synopses of the British Fauna series, 1988

Patterns of lichen in a churchyard - Verrucaria viridula and Lepra amara #lichens

Enjoying a moment communing with the woods after a long day editing Field Mycology. If you think you might want to read it in magazine format, now's the time to subscribe because issue 27(1) should be landing at the end of the month. 🤞 ▶️ www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/fm-journal

The little fella, from the species of "Pflantz-Menschen" (plant-people), is one of many wonderous humans highlighted in a book from 1668 titled "Anthropodemus Plutonicus Das ist/ Eine Neue Weltbeschreibung/ Von Allerley Wunderbahren Menschen" (Vd 17 3:313062K).

Ah! Kind of wish I was going to Antwerp again this spring to check out this Plants of Plantin exhibition. But I'm not - I'm going to Leiden to fangirl over Clusius where he worked. If anyone's got any tips for celebrating his 500th birthday, let me know! 🍄 museumplantinmoretus.be/nl/de-plante...

There's this set of Gashapon models of bioluminescent fungi that actually glow in the dark, so I obviously had to get them! #FungiFriends

Marlon Brando with a Dragonfly, Apocalypse Now, Pagsanjan, Philippines Mary Ellen Mark, 1976

The flowing edge of a Hart’s tongue fern leaf - Kew Gardens, London #fern #hartsTongueFern #leaf #BlueSkyArtShow #flowing #classicMono

It's now listed on @summerfieldbooks.com www.summerfieldbooks.com/product/cup-...

It's publication day!

Self-published, with the help of Geoffrey Kibby, John Holden covers 98 species, with plenty of great photos and bags of useful, accessible notes and observations. An absolute must-have for anyone with an interest slime moulds! tr.ee/cqMdipPL_B #slimemoulds #myxomycetesuk #forestofdean

"In the damp, dark places of the world; beneath the leaf litter of a wood, in the hidden crevices of bark, inside rotting stumps, and even on decaying fungi, there lurk unseen predators which stalk their prey and engulf it as an amoeba engulfs bacteria."

Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.

Thank you to all these people for keeping the wheels on the BHL bus 👇

Oh, considerably smaller than I was expecting

Sussex Biodiversity Records Centre is looking for a Biodiversity Support Officer, based at The Keep, Brighton.  Apply by 15 March.  https://f.mtr.cool/daqxzhxvjk

🗣️: From Waste to Wonder: The Mysterious World of Fungi that Grow on Dung 📆: 02.22.2026 @ 10:00—12:00 📍: Zoom! 🔗 : www.newyorkmyc.org/event/from-w... #mycotalk #mycology #talks #mushroom

The Yellow Eyed Ensatina (Ensatina eschscholtzii xanthoptica) of the San Francisco Bay Area has a very moody blue fluorescence under 365 nm light. Saw a lot of the out this morning #salamander #Ensatina #UVF

14/2/26 - nocturn

We're trialling something new this year at the BSBI - an activity designed to support absolute beginner botanists with identifying *and* recording their first ever 100 plants in 2026 🌿 If you know anyone that might like to take part then please spread the word: bsbi.org/take-part/ac...

So excited for today's Sussex Biological Recorders' Seminar I woke up at 6am, dreaming about esoteric data management software.