I’m not fat, I’m just cold. Same, Mr Chaffinch, same. #Birds #GardenBirds #Nature #UKWildlife

Surprise moth on the back door this chilly Southampton evening, the Viburnum Tortrix, Acleris schalleriana. #Moths #MothsMatter #TeamMoth

Our wan Britsplains Irish music

Walking through wet wooded Woolston, a spot of fungal interest. Pterula multifida, Xylaria polymorpha (my 1st sighting), Scleraderma citrinum (with a longer stem than I’m used to). Finally a teeny bit of jelly fungus. #fungi #fungifriends #nature 🍄

Autumn palette, fungi of the past 2 days. Amethyst Deceiver, Blushing Bracket, Blackening Waxcap and False Chanterelle. Though I could be wrong on any or all… #Fungi #Autumn #Mushrooms

A dawdle through the autumn colour of Thursford Wood. Big swathe of Tripe Fungus, Yellow Stagshorn and Glistening Inkcap #MushroomMonday

For some bizarre reason this Xerocomus makes me think of Chico Marx. I think I may need some therapy #fungi

We nearly didn't get there - a 10k run, a cycle race and a pony round up affected our route and destination. Worth the perseverance when we finally got to walk in the New Forest near Brockenhurst. One rotten log, 3 slime moulds. #SlimeMoulds #NewForest

More mushrooms at Dersingham Bog. Is this the Heath Navel (Lichenomphalia ericatorum) @robyaxley.bsky.social? #Fungi #Mushrooms #lichen

Visited Dersingham Bog on two occasions just a couple of days apart. Big difference in the number of mushroom species on the second day following some serious rain. Splendid pair of Blackening Waxcap, or for US viewers, Witches Hat. #Fungi #Mushrooms #MushroomMonday #DersinghamBog

Autumn mothing, not always full colour sometimes classy black and white. Black Rustic (Aporophyla nigrans) and Large Wainscot (Rhizedra lutosa). #TeamMoth #MothsMatter #Moths #ento

Trollop! Glorious Pink-barred Sallow (Xanthia togata) today. Larvae feed initially inside Willow catkins then on a broader range of plants when they drop off the tree #MothsMatter #Moths #TeamMoth #ento

A parasitic fungus on its favourite fungus. The bolete eater, Hypomyces chrysospermus. #Fungus 🍄

Our work resurrecting ice age #ghostponds in the Guardian today @timholtwilson.bsky.social @hburningham.bsky.social @uclgeography.bsky.social ‘Just add water’: how to bring back ancient plants in a Norfolk ghost pond | Wildlife | The Guardian share.google/kO6HQaC4PAUJ...

Bulgaria inquinans aplenty, on a beautiful September day #fungi 🍄

A last reminder that there is an NNNS Sawfly workshop running on Sunday 21st Sept 2025 at Sheringham Park - see details below and get in touch with Mark Welch if you are interested in booking a place.

Let’s hear it for the Penny Bun! Bright spot in a miserable day. #fungi 🍄

We meet at last Mr Footman, Four-spotted Footman. New for garden. He’s a cracker. #MothsMatter #TeamMoth #Ento #Moths

I was behind the times and hadn’t realised the Engrailed and the Small Engrailed had united as one species. Ya live and learn. Very happy to find this one taking the air on a gatepost. #MothsMatter #Moths #Ento #TeamMoth

Great night for migrants. Blair’s Mocha (x 2), Rush Veneer, Vestal and Palpita vitrealis. Happy Hampshire moth-ers. #TeamMoth #MigrantMoths #MothsMatter #UKWildlife

The slugs are really struggling this year… #slugs #UKWildlife

A Pale Prominent (Pterostoma palpina) ponders life on a stick. #Moths #TeamMoth #MothsMatter. #ento

Overachieving Common Carline Thistle. I never tire of this plant. #Plants #Thistles

Another delightful pair of moths to the trap in the Walsingham garden, a Scorched Carpet and Straw Underwing #TeamMoth #MothsMatter #Moths #UKWildlife #ento

A couple of migrants arrived together, Tawny Wave and Small Mottled Willow. Both new for garden. #MothsMatter#TeamMoth #Moths #UKWildlife

Looking for a bit of shade on a very hot day, we went to Thursford Wood. Not expecting much mushroom so pleased with the Beefsteak Fungus (Fistulina hepatica) and a Whitelaced Shank (Megacollybia platyphylla). #Fungi 🍄

Four different Spangle galls on a single oak branch. Each is the agamic (parthenogenetic) life stage of an oak gall wasp, with a single larva in each structure #spanglegalls #oakgall #ento

Round-leaved Sundew (Drosera rotundifolia). Our first visit to Holt Lowes and won’t be the last. #carnivorousplants #BogPlants

Nothing rare but none commonly seen in our trap #moths #MothMatter #ento

Struggling with an ID for this caterpillar. Quite a chunky one as can be seen with Thick Thighs giving it scale. Looks like it may be about to pupate judging by the silk threads. No good side pic, so can't count prolegs. @rlewington2.bsky.social @norfolknats.bsky.social @norfolkmoths.bsky.social

I planted a big fat zero Hollyhocks in my garden. Here are all the different Hollyhocks flowering in my garden 😆 #garden #flowers

A couple of micro moths enjoying an early morning sit, Garden Pebble and Diamond-back #NationalMothWeek #MothsMatter #Moths #gardenwildlife

Colour co-ordinated with the ripening blackberries, I spy a final instar Dock Bug (Coreus marginatus).

walk along the shore, dotted with Common Burdock (Arctium minus) and False Mayweed (Tripleurospermum maritimum) #wildflowerhour

A better dressed couple than Bezos and Sanchez? Broad Bordered Yellow Underwing fashion #TeamMoth #MothsMatter

Upon reflection, a rather attractive Garden Grass-veneer (Chrysoteuchia culmella). #TeamMoth #MothsMatter #UKwildlife

Centaurea erythraea (Common Centaury) and Rubio peregrina (Wild Madder) both in profusion near Ringstead, Dorset #WildflowerHour

The Peach Blossom (Thyatira batis) is widespread and unmistakable, but this is probably only the third one I’ve seen in 20 years. #MothsMatter #TeamMoth #ento

In the past few days, the Gatekeepers seem to have taken wing. Wasting no time on creating the next generation. #butterflies #ento #UKwildlife

In flower along the Stiffkey, the bright cheeky faces of Monkeyflower (Erythranthe guttatus). #aquaticplants #wildflowerhour

Rather a flamboyant uniform for the Rosy Footman (Miltochrista miniata). The caterpillars apparently feed on lichens #MothsMatter #ento #TeamMoth #moths

The first time we saw this moth we wondered (using the Georgian naming practice) if it was called the OK moth. This well marked specimen shows it to be the Figure of Eighty, Tethea ocularis. #UKmoths #ento #MothsMatter

@tillingtonchum.bsky.social has made a new friend. Bordered White (Bupalus piniaria) #mothsmatter #TeamMoth #ento

It's called getting tenure

The velvet night sky of the Peacock butterfly (Aglais io) caterpillar #caterpillar #butterfly #ento #UKwildlife

It's definitely a ladybird year in our garden. 14-spot, 7-spot and loadsa spot (Harlequin) doing their thing amongst the plants #ladybirds #beetles #ento #UKwildlife

Good to see Marbled White Spot, (Protodeltote pygarga) moth, sitting on a substrate all moth-ers will recognise #TeamMoth

Pleased to see an Osteospermum interesting the locals #flower #moths #bees

Clearly used to the adulation, this Buff Tip moth simply hopped onto the stick and posed when presented with the opportunity. #moths #UKWildlife #MothsMatter #ento

On the beach at Holme-next-the-Sea at low tide, a collection of creatures new to me. A lovely person over in that other place ID’d them as Botrylloides leachii, colonial sea squirts. #UKwildlife #nature #shore #NorthNorfolk