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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)
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about 20 hours ago
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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)
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5 days ago
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A gorgeous day at Holkham Rue-leaved Saxifrage just beginning to open, Daphne laureaola in bloom and fine bottle brush rhizines of Peltigera membranacea
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5 days ago
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A rather nice Ground beetle (Nothiphilus biguttatus) accompanied the Snow Fleas this morning.
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6 days ago
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The male Snow Fleas clambering over hill and dale this morning at Felbrigg
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6 days ago
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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)
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8 days ago
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Floreana giant tortoise reintroduced to Galápagos island after almost 200 years
10 days ago
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‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks
10 days ago
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A quartet of Cladonias from Winterton - Cladonia uncialis, Cladonia foliacea, Cladonia subulata, Cladonia diversa.
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18 days ago
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A quartet of Cladonias from Horsey. Cladonia cornuta, Cladonia rangiferina, Cladonia cervicornis, Cladonia ciliata var tenuis
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18 days ago
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A couple of weeks ago this was actually a fruiting Cladonia portentosa. The Cladonia rangiferina finally hove into view yesterday. (Cladonia inexperience and a dodgy map ref honest) Cladonia rangiferina in all its glory (only site in Norfolk as previously mentioned)
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18 days ago
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As someone said only yesterday. It's that time of year. Lo and behold Wheatfen thought so too! Alder Goblet (Ciboria caucus) on Alder. Lamb's tails and female flowers on Hazel (Corylus avellana)
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20 days ago
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Vanna Bartlett
25 days ago
More harvestman line drawings completed. Leiobunum species have such long legs that I didn't even try and fit them on the page.
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A tale of two males of different species today. The first the long staying Ist Winter ♂︎ Eastern Black Redstart at Sheringham. The Second and you did say it was tiny. SO tiny... A male Snow Flea that jumped across the leaf litter at Felbrigg, by the seat at the top of the V.
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about 1 month ago
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Horsey - The only spot in Norfolk for Cladonia rangiferina. A northern reindeer moss usually found in montane heaths, moorland, dunes & woodlands in the north North & West. And something as yet unidentified.
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about 1 month ago
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Seals basking in the sunshine at Horsey.
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about 1 month ago
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The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot
about 1 month ago
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Masked government thugs snuffed out Alex Pretti’s life in broad daylight | Moira Donegan
about 1 month ago
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Spectacular Snow Buntings at Winterton.
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about 1 month ago
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Snowdrop wonderment at Church farm - West Beckham Galanthus - Angelus Early, Byfield Special, Dionysius, Franz Joseph.
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about 1 month ago
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Hard to digest: we still live in Fast Food Nation | Eric Schlosser
The long read: Twenty-five years after I revealed the practices of the industrial food giants, the profits – and dangers – of mass producing meat and milk have only grown
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/jan/06/we-still-live-in-fast-food-nation-eric-schlosser
about 2 months ago
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One or two more fungal beauties. Winter Polypore (Polyporus brumalis), Crimped Gill (Plicatura crispa) and something toothed that turned out to be (again thanks to our resupinate whisperer) not the usual Steccherinum ochraceum but the unusual Steccherinum bourdotii
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about 2 months ago
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The very beautiful structure (meruloid) of this resupinate found on a Pine log on Cawston Heath. Brilliantly determined by our resident resupinate whisperer. Glaeoporus taxicola. This being the fifth record on the Norfolk Mycota
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about 2 months ago
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A stunning Eastern Black Redstart at Sheringham (Phoenicurus ochruros) today. Form murimus/phoenicuroides/rufiventris. A paradoxus type Ist winter ♂︎. 10-12% of them have bright male plumage. 90% look like females. Birding Frontiers 2011 Thanks to the finder.
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2 months ago
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Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture | George Monbiot
3 months ago
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After a career as an environment writer, here’s what I have learned
3 months ago
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The life and limbo of a UK asylum seeker: one man’s harrowing 17-year wait for leave to remain
3 months ago
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Kat Newbert
5 months ago
Asplenium trichomanes subsp. pachyrachis is the rarest subspecies of maidenhair spleenwort found growing out of damp limestone with high humidity levels. Identified by its lobed leaves from which it gets its English name, lobed maidenhair spleenwort. This one was tucked away in the Wye Valley.
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Anthony Speca | Aspen Ecology
5 months ago
Sand-mason
#worm
(Lanice conchilega), Camusdarach, Scotland. Worm itself (up to 30 cm long) lives in tube of cemented sand and shell, filtering food using many tentacles, assisted by untidy tube fringe. Common all round Britain: don't let messy looks keep you from admiring this successful life-form!
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How Humanity Saved the Ginkgo
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How Humanity Saved the Ginkgo
Pressed between the pages of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland — a favorite book of my childhood, which my grandmother used to read to me and which still dwells in her immense library &#…
https://www.themarginalian.org/2025/09/23/ginkgo/
5 months ago
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Still very dry at Felbrigg for Fungi. Nonetheless - Death Cap (Amanita phalloides), Burgundy Drop Bonnet (Mycena haematopa), Chicken of the Woods (Laetiporus sulphureus) and a fine slender Parasol (Macrolepiota procera) @NorfolkNats
5 months ago
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Very taken with this Lacewing Larva found on an Oak Leaf yesterday.
@norfolknats.bsky.social
5 months ago
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One or two lichens from Blakeney Point- Cladonia arbuscula?, Cladonia foliacea, Cetrarea aculeata & a crustose lichen sp on soil on the dunes?
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5 months ago
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Blakeney Point in yesterday's sunshine.
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5 months ago
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Blakeney Point. Sea Rocket in full bloom in the sunshine, starfish zigurats of Sea Sandwort (Honckenya peploides), end of the season's flowers on the twiggy, matted stems of Matted Sea Lavender (Limonium bellidifolium) and Shrubby Sea-blite plus rust. (Sueda vera)
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5 months ago
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A bittern's (Botaurus stellaris) eye view in amongst the Sea Club Rush (Bolboschoenus maritimus) at Salthouse and Summer Snow (Cladonia foliacea) on the Little Eye.
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6 months ago
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A hedge at the southern gate of Felbrigg Park only partly blossoming as yet. Hornet (Vespa crabro), Ivy Bees (Colletes hederae) & Tachina fera?
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6 months ago
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Jen Cross
6 months ago
Oak Treehopper watching over her eggs. These insects don't harm the oak tree, they just leave some twig scars. If you happen to find babies, the mom will typically be there protecting them. (Platycotis vittata) PA
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A quartet from a Fig tree In Norwich. A parasatised Aphid, Leafhopper nymph, which may be Ficocyba ficaria, Picture Wing Fly (Palloptera muliebris) & the Mediterranean Fig Psyllid (Homotoma ficus) found by JE earlier this year.
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6 months ago
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Derek Binns
6 months ago
A male Trichopria verticillata wasp of the Diapriidae found in the old meadow at Great Dixter.
#UKWildlife
#wasps
#Diapriidae
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On the Tamarisk (Tamarix tetrandra) bordering Cliff Drive & North Lodge Park - Cromer. A delightful green leafhopper popping about this afternoon. Tamarisk Leafhopper (Opsius stactogalus) with some Duke of Argyll's Tea Tree (Lycium barbarum) flowering in a nearby hedgerow.
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6 months ago
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One plant still in a fiery condition - Red-tipped Cudweed (Filago lutescens) , in the Brecks
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6 months ago
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Matt Bertone
6 months ago
Mama treehopper & her goth teens. Puberty & adolescence is hitting them HAAAAAARD!!! 🎸🤘
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vittata on birch Avery Co., North Carolina
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A quartet from Surlingham Marsh - Greater Burdock (Arctium lappa) {Leaf stalk solid rather than hollow)}, Late instar Parent Bugs (Elasmucha grisea), Field Digger Wasp (Mellinus arvensis) & the scaley patterns of Pseudocersospora depazeoisea on Elder (Sambucus nigra)
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7 months ago
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Derek Binns
7 months ago
A beautiful 5mm long Ormyrus nitidulus parasitoid wasp of the Ormyridae found under pine trees in Brede High Woods this morning.
#UKWildlife
#wasps
#Ormyridae
#HighWeald
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One or two nice moments for yesterday's high tide at Snettisham.
@norfolknats.bsky.social
7 months ago
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Aphids on Frogbit (Hydrocharis morsus-ranae) in the middle of Wheatfen Broad, Norfolk. Frogbit isn't recorded as a host on the InfluentialPoints website. Does anyone recognise the species?
@norfolknats.bsky.social
7 months ago
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Yellow Loosestrife Bees (Macropis europea) foraging on their favourite flowers - Lysimachia vulgaris (Yellow Loosestrife) on Beeston Common, Norfolk
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7 months ago
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One or two other nice things from the Brecks. Basil Thyme (Clinopodium acinos), Smooth Rupturewort (Herniara glabra), One of two treehoppers found in the UK, particularly on Broom. (Gargara genistae) & Small Blue (Cipodo minimus)
@norfolknats.bsky.social
7 months ago
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Three Bees & a wasp from the Brecks Pantaloon Bee (Dasypoda hirtirpes), Small Scabious Mining Bee (Andrena marginata), Spined Mason Bee (Osmia spinilosa), Large Shield Wasp (Crabro cribrarius)
@norfolknats.bsky.social
7 months ago
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