Dung Cannon, Pilobolus crystallinus. Found today on deer dung collected on 17th February and incubated in a moist chamber. One of several species of Pilobolus - distinguished mainly by spore size, shape & colour. www.outerhebridesfungi.co.uk/species.php?... #FungiFriday #Fungi #FungiFriends

Two for the price of one. A Scarlet Elfcup surrounded by several Alder Goblets. By the River Wensum in Norwich this morning. #FungiFriday #Fungi #FungiFriends

A favorite spider to introduce people to is #Miagrammopes flavus. Or as I call them, squids.

The Bog Beacons are here! 🧡 Mitrula paludosa #FungiFriends

Bumblebees of the Asian steppes - Sibiricobombus - our latest global revision of a bumblebee subgenus out today: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

White-mouth moray - Gymnothorax meleagris #gili #giliislands #lombok #diving #scuba #trawangan #diveandstay #giliair #pets #ocean #sealife #marinelife #padi #morayeel #eel #moray

BREAKING: A national security official says Donald Trump is in a catch-22 where Iranians are threatening to release videos of him sexually assaulting children if he bombs them, and Israel is threatening the same if he doesn’t....

Auriscalpium vulgare - Earpick Fungus #FungiFriends

Does anyone know please if there's an LED equivalent to bulb type 6423FO - 15V - 150W (GZ6.35)? I've tried contacting Philips, but not had a response. It's for a fibre optic lamp. I have tried Googling, but it's a bit of a minefield! Thanks!

Has anyone seen Brad?

It was cold yesterday but we found a Spring Harbinger, Tortricodes alternella. In woods north of Norwich. norfolkmoths.co.uk/micros.php?b... #Moths #TeamMoth

Pine Jelly, Exidia saccharina. Growing on a dead pine branch in woods north of Norwich yesterday. #Fungi #FungiFriends

An unprepossessing little strip of Beech woodland in Norfolk that I visited yesterday. Turned over a log and low and behold, there was only my second ever Norfolk Homalenotus quadridentatus! #arachnids #opiliones #harvestman

Found another Cinnamon Bracket yesterday on the trunk of a Rowan tree in woods north of Norwich. Found by @vannabartlett.bsky.social. #Fungi #FungiFriends

A Green-veined White chrysalis, on a Beech tree trunk. In woodland north of Norwich yesterday with @vannabartlett.bsky.social. #Butterflies

Beechmast Candlesnuff, Xylaria carpophila. Growing on fallen Beech mast. Plenty yesterday in woods north of Norwich. www.first-nature.com/fungi/xylari... #Fungi #FungiFriends

New batch! #ammonites #crochet #softart #art #autismart #outsiderart #finnishartist

Recent Commissions! Weird round dinosaurs inspired by cattle painting :3

Morning. #SolitaryBee Osmia cornuta, 17.2.26, SW London

Other work of the Ladybird artists. ‘Missel Thrush’, 1937 Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

It’s here! The wait is over! Thank you for your patience to all of you who pre-ordered ☺️

Stink bugs from the 80s and their ridiculous shoulder pads.

The flies all had leg warmers in the 80s

The Roman Pharos (lighthouse) at Dover, still standing after almost 2,000 years! 🤩 It is the tallest surviving Roman structure in Britain, and one of only three surviving lighthouses from the former Roman Empire! Dated 1st-2nd century AD. 📷 me #Archaeology

Our new paper is now published! 🧪 "Cats, dogs, and sticky worms: invasion by land flatworms (Geoplanidae) is facilitated by household pets" doi.org/10.7717/peer...

Roger Morris and I are picking out Muscidae from the British collection ahead of the upcoming @dipteristsforum.bsky.social field course for a photo shoot! Trying to get those awkward features imaged to aid the keys and (hopefully) identifications

I bought some of the transparent card protector sleeves @tylanberry.bsky.social suggested for harmlessly restraining insects for photography. They work! #Arachnids #Spiders #entomology #Insects #macrophotography #macro

Creeping Thistle Lacebug, Tingis ampliata. #Bugs #Hemiptera #VC55

#fabulamurina (mouse story) 490 hodie mures coquunt (Today the mice are cooking). Minima sartaginem in mensam ponit; Silvius lucunculum spathā tollit (Minima puts the frying pan on the table; Silvius lifts the pancake with a spatula). bene sapiat (bon appetit)! #pancakeday

A rare wasp species by the name of 𝘖𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘹𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳 has been identified, marking the first confirmed case of a hymenopteran wasp acting as a primary parasite of an earwig. This find sheds light on how these tiny wasps interact with their insect hosts in the wild: doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1268.181472

Doctors' union may yet save the NHS from Palantir. Apparently there is a UK-developed system that is better, cheaper, does not sell us to an unstable foreign power, and which has been completely passed over. Who knew? pluralistic.net/2026/02/12/p...

Spot the harvestman...

Not a day to be out looking for fungi but I was watering pots in the conservatory when I spotted something interesting in a Begonia pot. Hothouse Conecap, Conocybe intrusa. Pretty big for a Conocybe! #Fungi #FungiFriends

Took a spider from the cemetery home to ID. Turned out to be a Liny which I don't normally look at (too small). Surprised that it was straightforward to key out: female Gonatium rubellum. I put the live spider in a 'floating frame' to keep it still under the microscope and released her afterwards.

#fabulamurina (mouse story) 489 hodie breviter ningit, itaque Silvius foris festinat et traheam novam experitur. (Today it's snowing for a little while, so Silvius hurries outside and tries out his new sledge). carpe nivem! (Seize the snow!)

Annoyingly, I didn't spot the Hesperomyces fungus on this Harmonia quadripunctata when I photographed it in Earlham Cemetery on Friday. I only noticed after downloading the photos at home. So today I went back to look for it, despite the weather conditions... 1/2

“Snow has fallen again, as it will sometimes do in February” What to Look for in Winter, 1959 Artist: CF Tunnicliffe Writer: EL Grant Watson

Now that the report into the NNNS research project at Broadland Country Park has been published & sent out to members, its time for a reminder that the findings and discussions of the next steps will be discussed at a free conference! To book your place, visit www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/norfolk-no...

Tiny, delicate oak-pin #fungus (Cudoniella acicularis). Not true mushroom despite shape! Produces spores in asci or 'sacs' within 'pinhead', not from gills under 'umbrella'. Widespread in Britain but not common (or maybe just underrecorded). This one on rotting oak stump in Old Wood LWS, Shropshire.

Sunday 15 Feb: This afternoon from 2-4pm, I'll be the mudlark-in-residence at the Secrets of the Thames exhibition at London Museum Docklands. You'll need a ticket to the exhibition, but if you've been meaning to come, it's a good day for it! Info: www.londonmuseum.org.uk/whats-on/secrets-thames/

#caturday never doubt that you can fit in.

So far, we found 16 insects with #Laboulbeniales ectoparasitic microfungi, out of 361 screened ones — marking a prevalence of 4.4%. Not bad at all! Go #TeamLaboul! @taxonexpeditions.bsky.social

A typically ambiguous Fumitory from a Devon hedge today. This looks like White Ramping-fumitory Fumaria capreolata, but could be a weird Common Ramping-fumitory Fumaria muralis. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Happy #ValentinesDay, all you love bugs ❤️ (Warty leaf beetles, half a rice grain in size but a ton of pure lovin', Brazil) #BugSky 🐙🌿📷

An unusual Eyed Ladybird (Anatis ocellata) on a gravestone in Earlham Cemetery from yesterday (13/02/2026). Probably the nicest one I've ever found. #ladybirds #coleoptera #insects

Ancient #BoardGames 🙂

NNNS members will shortly receive two publications, our annual journal "Transactions..." along with a full length supplement detailing our research project at Broadland Country Park. Thank you to the many people who have contributed to both. A thread follows with some detail about the articles...

I never really sign stuff. But this was different. It's not about trying to facilitate or block a particular party's route to power. It's about an electoral system that's unsuited to the political realities we face today and risks giving us government after government with no convincing mandate.

Just arrived in paperback! Field Guide to the Grasshoppers and Allies of Great Britain and Ireland from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social Grab your copy here: tr.ee/PikfcmveM1 #newbookday #grasshoppers #crickets #earwigs #mantids #stickinsects

Tremendous coverage from @channel4news.bsky.social on the science of #AMOC collapse 👏 Do take the time to watch this and take it in. This story needs to be shared and absorbed. #EmergencyOnPlanetEarth