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Greater Celandine (Chelidonium majus), Hedge Garlic (Alliaria petiolata), CornSalad (Valeriana locusta) & Gymnocheta viridis. @norfolknats.bsky.social

Early Purple Orchid (Orchis mascula) by the roadside. Hanworth - Norfolk @norfolknats.bsky.social

The Cuckoo Pint exposed. Jeremy Bartlett's Blog Post explains it all. www.jeremybartlett.co.uk/2018/03/16/c... @norfolknats.bsky.social

Sweet Woodruff (Galium odoratum) & Mountain Witch-alder (Fothergilla major)

Forget me not.

Brimstone (Gonepteryx rhamni) on Daphne cneorum. Cuckoo Pint rust (Puccinia sessilis), Dark Blood Bee (this sp unique in having a shining hypoegimeron area beneath the wing base - seen ) in and out of the Common Furrow Bee (Lasioglossum morio) nesting holes. @norfolknats.bsky.social

Orange-tailed Mining Bee (Andrena haemorrhoa) A very fresh female and male. Plus the female's attendant satellite fly Leucocophora Sp? A quite stunning Tawny Mining Bee (Andrena fulva) too. @norfolknats.bsky.social

Blue Gentians, glorious white globes of Canadian Bloodroot but I suspect they both bow to the curlicues of Broom (Cytisus scoparius) and probably the explosion of filaments on the Goat Willow

There's nothing quite like a Blue Gentiian except perhaps a Sanguinaria canadensis flore pleno. The prisitine white globes of the Canadian Bloodroot closely followed by their enveloping leaves.

Nothing quite like a Blue! Gentian!

The incredible life of the ‘bird man’ refugee who brought tweets, chirps and trills to British radio

Pete Hegseth’s holy war: the militant Christian theology animating the US attack on Iran

Pear Bossom & Flowering Currant (Ribes odoratum))

Early Mason Wasp (Ancistrocerus nigricornis) plays host to a Ruby-tailed Wasp Sp - Chyrsis terminata? There were four of these around the wasp this morning - perhaps? @norfolknats.bsky.social

One female Osmia cornuta at camera height at Ranworth Church yesterday, in the sunshine Thank you Tim @timstrudwick.bsky.social, norfolknats.bsky.social

A few more Spring Bees & a Wasp - Small-notched Mason Wasp (Ancistrocerus gazella), Grey-patched Mining Bee ♀︎ (Andrena nitida), Small Nomad Bee (Nomada flavogutatta) & Ashy Mining Bee ♀︎ (Andrena cinerarea) @norfolknats.bsky.social

Male Early Mining Bees (Andrena haemorrhoa) quartering the grass. Hairy-footed Flower Bees (Anthophora plumipes) with their high-pitched buzz. Small green metallic Lasioglossum (Lasioglossum morio) excavating in the earth & Yellow-legged Mining Bees (Andrena flavipes) @norfolknats.bsky.social

Intermediate Screw-moss(S intermedia)&White-tipped Bristle-moss(O diaphanum), Cape thread-moss,Lesser Bird's-claw Beard-moss(S convolutum)&Crison-tuber Thread-moss(B rubens), Bryum capillare&Schreber's Forklet-moss(D schreberiana), Creeping Feather-moss(A serpens) @norfolknats.bsky.social

Blackthorn A spring beauty. @norfolknats.bsky.social

A moist Pincushion Sp gave up its identity as it dried. The narrowing below the mouth of the old capsule = Crisp Pincushion (Ulotta crispa), Dotty Thyme-moss (Rhizomnium punctatum) with Bifid Crestwort (Lophocolea bidentata, Tall Thyme-moss (Plagiomnium elatum) @norfolknats.bsky.social

One female Grey-backed Mining Bee (Andrena vaga) allowed her picture to be taken in Norwich today. A couple of males also present but not a lot of activity. A little bit cold for them I guess. @norfolknats.bsky.social

The magnificent harvestman Megabunus diadema, found at Maker church, Cornwall, last week by @vannabartlett.bsky.social. srs.britishspiders.org.uk/portal.php/p... #Harvestman #UKWildlife

The Town Hall Clock (Adoxa moschatellina) Struck and the Dog's Mercury (Mercurialis perennis) whistled in the wind. @norfolknats.bsky.social

May the call of this beautiful laughing kookaburra uplift your day. #bird #kookaburra #australia

Snow joke: capturing a land without colour – in pictures

Two Stylops sp. males today in Bengeo garden. Males live for only few hours seeking out females on their Andrena bee hosts & so are very rarely observed. @hans-pohl.bsky.social @vannabartlett.bsky.social #Strepsiptera

European Paper Wasp (Polistes dominula) at least four flying today and the most gorgeous Corydalis (Unnamed unfortunately). (Little Plumstead Garden) @norfolknats.bsky.social

Early Mason Wasp (Ancistrocerus nigricornis) out and about in the sunshine. @norfolknats.bsky.social

A quartet from Strumpshaw Fen - Snowy Disco (Lachnum virgineum), Stillbella byssiseda on a Slime Mold. Lachnum pudibundum & Tremella versicolor on Peniophora @norfolknats.bsky.social

Not my usual area! Designs for F. & C. Osler & Company. Birmingham Museum collection

#Banknotes I vote for the only bird in England to visually represent the #State of English wildlife; hung-over, pissed-off, stressed, annoyed, disturbed, and wishing very much it wasn't being looked at: The Stone Curlew. #RepresentionMatters Pic from www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

www.theguardian.com/environment/... Making all the investments needed for the UK to meet net zero by 2050 will cost less than the one-off gas crisis caused by Russia invading Ukraine. And it will protect us forever from fossil fuel shocks, like - say - a surge in oil price caused by bombing Iran.

A mini 'beast' of the leaf litter the pseudoscorpion Chthonius ischnocheles. This tiny arachnid is just a few millimetres long. It uses its venomous 'pincer palps' to immobilise prey such as mites then covers them with digestive fluid and injests the liquefied remains. They are harmless to humans!

Early Spring sightings. Basking Adder No, not that close. taken with a 500mm lens on an APS-C camera. Frogs and spawn. @norfolknats.bsky.social

For this month's @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social prompt #EYAWildlife we have selected a watercolour illustration of a John Dory by William Yarrell. Yarrell authored 'A History of British Fishes' and it's believed these watercolours were used in preparation for the publication 📸 PYA1

Going through old specimens has turned up this female and male Arescon iridescens wasp of the Mymaridae found in Brede High Woods in July 2023. A new species for me, and a very rarely found species. Good find! #UKWildlife #wasps #Mymaridae #HighWeald

A excellent sign of spring. Clarke's Mining Bees (Andrena clarkella) making full use of a bit of sunshine today at Wheatfen @norfolknats.bsky.social

A few Liverworts down the microscope. Fruiting body of Mueller's Pouchwort (Calypogeia muelleriana), Notched Pouchwort (Calypogeia arguta), Two-horned Pincerwort (Cephalozia bicuspidata), Forcipated Pincerwort (Cephalozia connivens) @norfolknats.bsky.social

A day of slime molds! Metatrichia floriformis, Arcyria ferruginea?, Badhamia utricularis, StemonitsSp? @norfolknats.bsky.social

Still awaiting the final id but stunnng nonetheless. especially under the microscope. Dendrostilbella Sp? Id suggestions very welcome for the larva group & a lovely hairy fungus on Beech Mast, (Volutella ciliata) @norfolknats.bsky.social @vannabartlett.bsky.social

Early Spring calm at Overstrand. @norfolknats.bsky.social

One or two mosses from Wolterton - Knieff's feather-moss Leptodictyum riparum), Wavy Beard-moss (Didymodon sinuosus), Lesser Pocket-moss (Fissidens bryoides), Dwarf feather-moss (Microeurhyncium pumilum) @norfolknats.bsky.social

One or two recent mosses from Felbrigg - Revolute Beard-moss (Pseudocrossidium revolutum), Elegant Silk-moss (Pseudotaxiphyllum elegans), Aloe Haircap capsules (Pogonatum aloides) & Swan's-neck Thyme-moss (Mnium hornum) @norfolknats.bsky.social

A gorgeous day at Holkham Rue-leaved Saxifrage just beginning to open, Daphne laureaola in bloom and fine bottle brush rhizines of Peltigera membranacea @norfolknats.bsky.social

A rather nice Ground beetle (Nothiphilus biguttatus) accompanied the Snow Fleas this morning. @norfolknats.bsky.social

The male Snow Fleas clambering over hill and dale this morning at Felbrigg @norfolknats.bsky.social

Four from the NFSG Foray at Felbrigg - Cosmospora arxii on Beech Woodwort, Conifer Disco (Lachnellula subtilissima) on Pine, Snow Flea (Boreus hyemalis) and a beautiful, less than invisible spider (Drapetisca socialis) @norfolknats.bsky.social

Floreana giant tortoise reintroduced to Galápagos island after almost 200 years

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks