Break down on the forest floor #fungi #lichen

Ascocoryne species #fungi and growing with Stereum hirsutum

Stereum hirsutum growing on a dead oak branch #fungi

“Leaf Woman” Fiber art. 2019 #blueskyartshow #warmth

For #BlueSkyArtShow a #small mushroom surrounded by a field of moss and a forest of thorny looking lichen

For #BlueSkyArtShow #small is relative. Small lichen surrounded by moss, with a teeny, tiny invertebrate on the lower left of the picture. I think it’s a springtail.

Look at those eyes! #flyday #bugskye #entomology #macro

#Lichens #Snail! #hotstick

I think this stick is hot #lichens #hotstick

With her new book, ‘Lo—TEK Water’, Julia Watons wants to reshape the aquatic world through Indigenous technologies. www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/10/lo-t...

Reflected Vista, 2018 by contemporary Impressionist US painter Erin Hanson #WomensArt

Sicus ferrugineus on Centaurea nigra. Ferruginous Bee-grabber on Knapweed.

Lobelia dortmanna #aquaticplants

I found a barely moving click beetle ready for death after being trapped in my house for who knows how long, but life hack: if you give dehydrated bugs some water you can watch them drink it and then get better

Pretty shrooms growing on the river bank. Coprinellus diseminatus with Pellia sp. liverwort in the background. The #fungi were growing at the bases of Alder trees Alnus glutinosus.

Calyopterx virgo, Beautiful Demoiselle. #BlueSkyArtShow #Vibrant

Wild strawberry yumminess jackpot

NEW PAPER, NEW THREAD! 👀 We collected insects in creeks polluted with raw sewage. 🤢 Microplastics in caddisflies were once rare. But now, in some creeks, more than half of all cases include artificial material! 🤯 A shitty thread on plastics and poop, thankfully, without the smell of it 💩 1/x 🧵👇

Graphomya maculata #fly on Heracleum sphondylium.

Lovely script #lichen in bark

Thought this moth was a piece of bark blown along by the wind. Fab camouflage. Put it in a piece of timber out of the wind. The App says it’s Phalera bucephela.

For #BlueSkyArtShow #LightAndShadow Taken at the beginning of Winter, the moon about to set in the early morning.

'Twisting and turning' by UK textile artist Rachel Wright, machine embroidered #WomensArt

Know your insect antennae! #insects #bugs #antennae #entomology #education #art #SciArt

E aí, seus tucanuçu (Ramphastos toco) "tucano-flecha" 📍 Nova Serrana, MG, Brasil 📅 05/2025 #birdsoftheworld

For #WorldBeeDay little solitary bee

Here is an ink study of Queen Bee of Apis cerana indica (Indian honeybee) for #WorldBeeDay 1/2 Since the time we moved to my studio space in 2005 #art #nature #illustration #sciart #indianwildlifeartist #scientificillustration #inkart #wildlifeart #traditionalart #penart #scicomm #insects #bugsky

Lovely frothy clouds of pink Saxifraga spathularis in the hedgerow

For #BlueSkyArtShow orange lichen on a crumbling concrete wall with a rough #texture

For #BlueSkyArtShow seaside rocks with smooth #texture

#BlueSkyArtShow #texture

Xanthoria and Lecanora #lichens

Found a little Ichneumon wasp on a plate among breadcrumbs. She nearly got brushed into the compost.

In his new book, 'The Anthropocene Illusion,' Zed Nelson takes us on a global journey that lifts the veil, so to speak, on what we think of as “wilderness” and our progressively uneasy relationship with the environment. www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/05/zed-...

Traditional management of temperate deciduous forests is still alive in northeastern Armenia: Forest grazing combined with tree coppicing and pollarding creates a fine landscape mosaic of forest and grasslands with a high diversity of plant species.

Why the long face Bombus hortorum?

オオサンショウウオ(2025/4/27京都府) 滋賀·福井県境に接する森で今年最初の野鳥調査。 沢を渡っていたらオオサンショウウオがいた。この場所では初めて出会った。

A mayfly. Right on time. Looks to be Ephemera vulgata. Bungay-on-the Waveney, Suffolk, England. @suffolk-nats1929.bsky.social

Andrena cineraria Grey Mining bee on Crataegus monogyna flower.

For #blueskyartshow #Green mossy close-up

#BlueSkyArtShow #Green #Photography #Nature #NZ

Blurry photos of Hemaris tityus, Narrow-bordered Bee Hawkmoth.

Ajuga reptans with a pink flower.

Bugle, Bluebell, Viola, Veronica. Very blue blooms.

Picture of the Day for me yesterday was this beautiful female Andrena haemorrhoa (Early Mining Bee) sunning herself on a bird feather. What do you think?

For #wildflowerhour #cabbagefamily Raphanus raphanistrum ssp maritimus and Cardamine pratensis.