Jersey Tiger moths are doing well again in my back garden and emerging from the Green alkanet that’s also a constant buzz with bees

This Dragonfly made it 20 feet from my pond overnight and was quite happy at sunrise on the house wall in the rain. I.D. suggestions welcome if it’s possible in an emerging state #Dragonflies

Splash of colour in the meadow today #wildflowerhour

Lovely day out on the Somerset levels today and in a break from sequencing grassland fungi we went hopping around the meadow to see the Frog orchids, Southern Marsh and a Fragrant hybrid? 🤔 #wildflowerhour

Fungi are crucial to many of life’s ecological ladders, and the first rung that many plants need to exist. Without the plants we don’t get the insects, the birds and mammals that depend on them, including us! Yet Fungi are continually ignored. #Conservation #Fungi #Ecology #Naturalist #Fungifriends

How does a spider choose its flowers? 🕷️🌸 Meet Misumena vatia – an ambush predator that hunts pollinators, takes down huge prey, and even changes colour to camouflage. Join @envirosyment.bsky.social on 2 June to see how modern ecology uncovers these secrets: 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1915221742...

I’ve only a small back garden but it’s nice to escape to. Sat out looking at the Mayfly dancing up and down while I’m waiting for the early bats to arrive over the wildflower garden. Vetch have done very well this year, Bythinian in particular benefitted from the wet winter @bsbibotany.bsky.social

More “Pets” in the wildlife garden 😃 I wondered what was turfing out the old Blue Tit nest. they’re quite industrial.

Aquatic Fungi Diversity 2026! Celebrate #BiodiversityDay with us 💧🍄This Friday💧🍄 4 talks highlighting marine and freshwater fungi by experts from around the world. Register here: tinyurl.com/aquaticfungi... @funaction.bsky.social @mostfun.bsky.social @iucnaquafungi.bsky.social & GCSS

Green-winged orchid Selsley Common, Stroud yesterday. Just look at those petticoats 😃

Bird watching in Filton this morning 😃

Toads have fab eyes… who could resist such beauty? 😂

Nice to see a sleeping bee and a ladybird on my Cuckooflower when I got home from work today. Happy Earth Day everyone, let’s not forget when we look at nature the soil itself holds many secrets and should be valued for what we cannot see 👀

Well that was fun, a week in Sweden with like minded fungi conservationists. We even ventured into the forest to see the Witches cauldron - Sarcosoma globosum not yet recorded in Britain #Fungifriends #Fungi #Mycology #Nature #Wildlife #Conservation #Mushrooms

How incredible is this? 😲

Looking forward to speaking about Rights for Nature at this event in May with the British Ecological Society. Suspect tickets may sell out at the wonderful Burlington House. #NaturesRights www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/righ...

Newly described Entoloma griseopulchrum, part of the E. undulatosporum group. This was from Minchinhampton Common in the Cotswolds, confirmed by Machiel Noordeloos the genus global expert. #FungiFriends #Mycology #Mushrooms #Fungi #Naturalist #UKWildlife

Friday fungi - Neohygrocybe nitrata listed as “VU” to extinction in the wild on the IUCN Red list and is a good indicator species of quality grassland fungi habitat #Fungi #Mushrooms #UKNature #FungiFriends #Naturalist #Waxcaps #Conservation #Mycology

Great to see the Fungi Kingdom gaining more recognition. Hopefully the foundational role fungi have in our ecosystems will receive greater conservation efforts #Fungi #Mycology #Mushrooms #UKNature #FungiFriends #Naturalist #Wildlife

Something for the weekend - Vermilion waxcap - Hygrocybe miniata in its most glorious red. Exmoor grassland #FungiFriends #Fungi #Mushrooms #Mycology #UKNature #Naturalist #UKWildlife

48 LNRSs in England — most ignore fungi. Ecological recovery without fungi is a broken promise. Fungi are essential components of biodiversity. Without them, 30x30 will fail. Does your council plan to fail? #FungiFriends #Fungi #Mycology #Naturalist 👉 Find your LNRS here: www.gov.uk/government/p...

Mosaic puffball on Exmoor grassland #FungiFriends #Fungi #Mycology #Mushrooms #UKNature #UKNaturalist #Wildlife

Entoloma atromadidum, sequenced find from a Cotswold Common. One of the Big Blue Pinkgill group that contains species yet to be determined. #FungiFriends #Mycology #Fungi #Mushrooms #UKWildlife #Naturalist #Nature

Gliophorus psittacinus - Parrot Waxcap for Mushroom Monday. Love the way these so often blend in with their surroundings so well you can hardly find them until their age gives them away #FungiFriends #Fungi #Mushrooms #UKWildlife #Naturalist #Mycology #Nature #Naturalist

Cotswold grazed grassland was where I saw this chunky little Cordyceps militaris recently #Fungi #Mushrooms #Mycology #UKNaturalist #Wildlife #FungiFriends

Lovely find

Monday #Mushroom added to the English list last week and one to look out for at the moment, Clavaria calabrica. Looking a bit like Clavaria fumosa but with “dividing fingers”, the texture is more wax crayon like than C. fumosa. #FungiFriends #Naturalist #Mycology #Fungi #UKWildlife

A different location than last week for Clustered Bellflower on a Minchinhampton Common today #WildflowerHour

Harebell in the mist on Minchinhampton Common today Early submission for #WildflowerHour as I’ll be busy later

My first book RHS Fungi for Gardeners is out now! Such an amazing opportunity to write for RHS and with such fantastic publishers as DK. Better yet is that doing it enabled me to get my own compound microscope 🤩🍄 Check how the hyphae bend out at 90° on Mycena leptocephala stems #fungifriends

Think this is Clustered Bellflower - Campanula glomerata I saw yesterday, not large plants, not much clustering going on… and quite late in the year. Not recorded in the area for a while #WildflowerHour sorry it’s a bit late 😀 Oh and a late Autumn Gentian from Minchinhampton last wk (diff location).

Protecting Waxcaps: All the Losses We Cannot See. Britain’s waxcap grasslands are considered to be some of the best in Europe.... www.plantlife.org.uk/protecting-w...

The lovely sky was worth braving the chill wind on Minchinhampton Common today

Toasted Waxcap - Cuphophyllus colemannianus are up on some of the Cotswold Commons #Fungifriends #Fungi #Mushrooms #UKNature #Naturalist #Wildlife

Big blue Pinkgills are out now, these are most likely Entoloma bloxamii s. str. I saw on a Cotswold Common #Fungi #Fungifriends #Mushrooms #UKWildlife

[email protected] and 127 co-authors present a global call to strengthen national #SoilBiodiversity action, in an #OpenLetter to policymakers at 27th meeting of the @unbiodiversity.bsky.social SBSTTA taking place in Panamá City this week. 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #SBSTTA27

Stopped for coffee and was transported to another world: Poznan

Autumn Gentian on Minchinhampton Common.. possibly the last of the year in flower on Sunday

Had a very blowy return from a trip to Croatia yesterday.. then the Uber had a blow out in heavy rain on the M56 which took 2 hours to fix… but it was worth it all 😂

Entoloma neglectum from a Cotswold Common. There are around 17 British records including duplicates since 1800 to date so this sequenced find is quite rare #Fungifriends #Fungi #Mycology #Nature #UKWildlife

Finally got around to sequencing a Big Blue Pinkgill from Bodmin 2018 which revealed it as Entoloma madidum. One of the rarer species in the E. bloxamii group. #FungiFriends #Fungi #Mushrooms #UKWildlife #Nature

5:22am this morning and the bats were still over my wildlife garden. (Obligatory rescue cat demanding food as they do).

Pseudoinonotus dryadeus - Oak Bracket will be showing itself any time now until the season end. Image from a few years ago around this time of year. #FungiFriends #Fungi #Mycology #Nature #Mushrooms

This week’s challenge is #PollinatorPals! Find a flowering wild or naturalised plant with a pollinating visitor & snap away. Of course it’s not just about bees! Butterflies, moths, wasps, flies & beetles can all be #pollinators too! Share your pics for #Wildflowerhour this Sunday 8-9pm!

Volvariella bombycina - Silky Rosegill on a large fallen oak today #Fungi #FungiFriends #Fungi #Nature #Mycology #Mushrooms

Climate journalist and New Scientist contributor Alec Luhn has gone missing on a Norwegian glacier. His family is asking that anyone hiking in the region share any information with local authorities. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

For my European #FungiFriends why not give some conservation value to your fungi forays this season #Fungi #Mushrooms #Nature #Mycology

Free to download, the latest British Field Mycology quarterly 👌🏼 #Fungifriends #Fungi #Mushrooms #Naturalists #Nature

Salad Burnet Rust - Phragmidium sanguisorbae (DC.) J. Schröt, Selsley Common today

It’s lovely to see the fruits of your labour and in this case it’s Cherry Plums from some of the hundreds I planted out in hedgerows over the last six years