Citro-tropicaloid dankness on the nose. Taste offers slurpy passionfruit and a limey orange pulpy bite. A very approachable, joose-led, ABV-defying DIPA from @durationbeer.bsky.social #BskyBeer

I bought these old RSPB magazines for their CF Tunnicliffe cover pictures. They look so good together (with that delicious typeface!)

@linbrice.bsky.social just updated the Website, it's been a busy 18 months dipteraid.co.uk/projects/ looking ahead to next year already. Anyone ecologists needing help with diptera backlog from this year? Or planning lots of diptera work next year, please contact me if I can help. Please share, ta!

Details of my annual exhibition

Nature book challenge. A book per day in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews. #Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky #MycoBookClub

We needed a day out today & four months after the historic discovery of breeding Zitting Cisticolas at Walberswick, we *finally* headed to Suffolk & enjoyed smart views of 3 birds, across a couple of hours. Thx @cach22.bsky.social for up to date info 👍 @linnetincley.bsky.social #RareBirdsUK 1/2

This aphid on Yarrow appeared to have been infected by a fungus, but not the Pandora-type fuzz I'm used to seeing. This reminded me a bit of the laboulbeniales found on beetles. The body cavity was full of round spores(?) I don't suppose this is something that you recognise @dhaelewa.bsky.social ?

I've been checking Yarrow plants for aphids this week, and have managed to add a species to my Norwich aphid list. These are Small Yarrow Aphid, Coloradoa achilleae. The male is the thin yellowy one.

A large congregation of Ramshorn Bagworm Luffia lapidella at Briningham churchyard today, grazing on the lichen.

Arboridia ribauti. #Bugs #Hemiptera #VC55 #Cicadellidae #macrophotography #macro #OMSystem

From the paper, the four British species plus betulae, which might be here too. I've added the aedeagus from three specimens I have. My two from willows look like they might be crypticus. The one from hawthorn looks like to me like subaeneus, but the weevil is not metallic so must be oxyacanthae.

Exciting news: we have a new British flea weevil. Less exciting news: it is a Rhamphus. I still don't understand how to tell them all apart. Even so, this is a very useful paper: www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/16... Six new Palaearctic species and a review of diagnostic characters. #coleoptera

Hello November! We've got an exciting month ahead, as we get ready to celebrate the season! Read our latest newsletter for what's happening this month... 

Stigmella naturnella was discovered only recently in the low countries (nl.pensoft.net/article/99360/) but in my region (Ghent, Belgium) it already seems to be the most common birch #leafminer. It probably spread naturally from S Central Europe. Here's how the mines look. #mothsmatter #teammoth

Yesterday, @britentsoc.bsky.social published the 4th edition of the popular Field Guide to the Smaller Moths of Great Britain and Ireland. Completely updated and free to download in 3 digital formats: PDF, spreadsheet, and an Android App! Further details at www.benhs.org.uk/publications... #TeamMoth

More Mapping the UK's Flat Flies Project results published today with Adrian Smith & @sheldonbirds.bsky.social 212 host-parasite interactions, including 70 not previously reported, & a recent switch to gulls by some Louse Flies, Hippoboscidae. @btobirds.bsky.social @dipteristsforum.bsky.social

Christmas bargain £13.59 (with free p&p) for 'Broadland. Shaping Marsh and Fen' by Tom Williamson & Alison Yardy (with ecology @jo-the-botanist.bsky.social and geology @timholtwilson.bsky.social). 400 pages of landscape history. Go www.herts.ac.uk/uhpress/book... @broadsnationalpark.bsky.social

A selection of other fungi from Cavenham Heath NNR from todays Norfolk Fungus Study Group foray: Steccherinum ochraceum, Ramaria cf stricta, Scarlet Caterpillar Club (Cordyceps militaris) and Cowpat Gem (Cheilymenia granulata).

A cross-border raid into Suffolk today for the Norfolk Fungus Study Group, as we had a look around Cavenham Heath. We saw a decent range of mostly common species. A new one for me was Cyclaneusma minus on a pine needle (found & ID'd by Stewart) & I think there is a fungus on this Oak Marble Gall too

Weeping Bolete, Suillus granulatus. Growing with pines in Wymondham Cemetery, Norfolk. Seen on yesterday's bike ride. #Fungi #FungiFriends

A rather ghoulish #Arachtober post for the end of October - a fungus infested Liny found this week.

The 2024 Norfolk Bird & Mammal Report has now been published. Members will receive their free copy by post, whilst additional copies will be on sale at selected local outlets. The report is a huge undertaking - thanks to all involved, especially Barry Madden, Neil Lawton & Mick Saunt #NorfolkBirding

The new leafmine site update is now out. Has many excellent photos including some rarely seen eg Dialectica imperialella, Scrobipalpula tusdilaginis and Stigmella spinosissimae. Others more common. The amazing spiracles of Cerodontha iraeaos - like cow horns! www.leafmines.co.uk/html/updates...

Thanks to the kind permission of the authors, the keys are already freely available to support FunDive project. They are well-illustrated and easy to use, a great help for anyone wishing to contribute to our sampling campaigns. Explore the keys and enjoy identifying! 🔗 fun-dive.eu/en/dissemina...

🔍🔑Keys on the website! You can find expert-level identification keys for several FunDive targets on our website. Prepared by Jens Petersen, the keys come from the book "Fungi of Temperate Europe: Keys to the Basidiomycotes" (Læssøe T., Petersen J., Frøslev T., Heilmann-Clausen J., expected in 2026)

For a gentle introduction to aquatic hyphomycetes, try my article out today in Field Mycology 26(3) fieldmycology.org/index.php/jo...

Field Mycology issue 26(3) is up on the internets 😎 ▶️ doi.org/10.63482/cjr... I think it's a good one -- you should read it. It's free! cc. @britmycolsoc.org.uk

Honey Fungus is a very common species, found around Norfolk at this time of year. So this is how the Norwich Evening News have chosen to headline a sighting of it…

Crab Brittlegill, Birch Brittlegill, Chestnut Bolete & Bloody Brittlegill from Wareham Forest 🍄‍🟫❤️🍂 #Mushrooms #Fungi #MushroomMonday

Hedgehog Harvestman Nemastomella bacilliferum, Plymouth, Devon, this very distinctive but tiny harvestman is found at several sites around the city. It has not been found anywhere else in the UK but may be overlooked? It is usually found sat on the underside of rocks lying on the ground.

Waxcap 13 - Glistening Waxcap (Gloioxanthomyces vitellinus). Our smallest waxcap. Starting a deep beautiful yellow and aging to pure white. The deeply decurrent gills have a thin slime layer along their edge. Usually found in acidic places. #wildfungihour

Splendid Waxcaps, Hygrocybe splendidissima. For #WildFungiHour

Enjoying a long weekend away in the Derbyshire Dales and taking plenty of opportunities to check out the Grassland #Fungi round here! #Waxcaps and Spindles galore, and many other #chegd beauties too! Thoroughly enjoying the #WildFungiHour

I’ve seen some beautiful grassland fungi for #WildFungiHour in the last few days. 🔁 from top left Mealy Pinkgill, Dark Fieldcap, Parrot Waxcaps, Persistent Waxcaps looking like flowers, Blackening Waxcaps, Poppies for #WildflowerHour & lastly gorgeous Crimson & Scarlet Waxcaps🥰

A few fungi for #WildFungiHour / #WildFlowerHour... All from our local park. Two years ago I counted over 50 Collared Earthstars! My favourite are the Shaggy Scalycaps, almost over now. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Devil’s fingers fungi, Clathrus archers. Egg, hatching and full glory.

A few fungal gems

A huge thank you to all our wonderful contributors @kitenet.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk @earthwormuk.bsky.social @nbntrust.bsky.social and all to the latest NFBR newsletter www.nfbr.org.uk?q=newsletters ! Thank you also to the amazing @aquatilis.bsky.social for bringing it all together :)! Enjoy!

A patch of Shaggy Ink Caps (Coprinus comatus) growing in Norwich this week, showed a nice transition from fresh to completely deliquesced. 🍄📷

Waxcap 12 - Persistent Waxcap (Hygrocybe acuticonica). A usually dry, conical cap that ranges from yellow to orange. Stem is fibrillose and within the same colour range. Gills are adnexed to free. An early fruiting species, one I see more often on base-rich substrates.

Best Green Elfcups I've ever seen. Chlorociboria spp. #VC55 #fungifriends #fungi #mycology

Woolly Woodwart, Lasiosphaeria ovina. #VC55 #fungifriends #fungi #mycology

Slime mold in local woods. Fascinating stuff.

One of the local Muntjac Deer, found on Mousehold Heath - aware of my presence but not bothered by it.

My book has got a great endorsement from Chris Packham: "This clever and immensely resourceful book is an overdue gem". There's also a few pages up on the website too! It's up for pre-order here with publication set for January pelagicpublishing.com/products/pan...

#speciesaday no. 655 is Orange Grisette (Amanita crocea). I have only ever seen this at one place, Ebernoe Cricket Pitch and then not every year. It was up last week but looking a little dried out (this is a photo from 31st Oct 20015!). It is associated with birch. I think it must be 'uncommon'.

Join us for a festive celebration! Grab a drink & watch live music from the amazing Clark & Zuppardi! We'll have children's activities & crafts set up to keep them entertained whilst you natter with friends & enjoy hot food from a local food van. 🦇 Book now: www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la...

Reminder: This Saturday (25th October 2025) at 10:30 there is an NNNS fungus foray at Brett's Wood NWT reserve, led by national fungus expert & author Geoffrey Kibby. For meeting details see the events page on our website norfolknaturalists.org.uk/wp/events-pa...

My latest blog post: Five Fungi from Sweet Briar Marshes. (The current list for the reserve is around 300 species. I've written about five of them - and a beetle that lives in fungi.) www.jeremybartlett.co.uk/2025/10/23/f... #Fungi #FungiFriends #NorfolkWildlife

Allochernes wideri confirmed new to Norfolk! Found by a fellow county recorder; luckily I was present at the time and got to see them and take these photos. Unfortunately, I now have to update my guide to pseudoscorpions in Norfolk... #arachnids #pseudoscorpions