Daisy portrait I. #WildflowerHour

Ragwort, White Dead Nettle, Shaggy Soldier, Groundsel, Ivy, Shepherd's Purse, Yarrow (leaning over the River Soar), Chickweed, Canadian Fleabane, Daisy, Dogwood, Red Dead Nettle. Centre of Leicester. #WildFlowerHour

Telescope Types xkcd.com/3182/

Red Valerian and Green Alkanet in Castle Gardens, Leicester today. #WildFlowerHour

A lovely walk over the Seven Sisters and through Friston Forest, gave me 9 of #thewinter10: Gorse, Daisy, Smooth Hawksbeard, Ragwort, Red Deadnettle, Smooth Sowthistle, Sweet Violet (first of the new season!), Dandelion and Yarrow. South Downs National Park, East Sussex #wildflowerhour

A Daisy growing in the grass in the churchyard of St Mary de Castro, Leicester, where only a few were flowering. #WildflowerHour

Common storksbill still flowering in Ely. #WildflowerHour

A walk by the River Soar, Leicester, yesterday: Shaggy Soldier, Shepherd's Purse, Yarrow, Ragwort, White Dead Nettle, Green Alkanet, Parsley family, Meadow Grass, Gorse, Canadian Fleabane (on a cast iron bridge over the river), Ivy and Stinging Nettle. #WildflowerHour #TheWinter10 +2

Red Dead-nettle, Field Forget-me-not and Annual Meadowgrass flowering in Durrow yesterday for #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Shaggy Soldier growing between bricks making steps up from the towpath by the River Soar. #WildflowerHour

Had a walk on the beach at Birling gap this afternoon. No Biobeads found ( thankfully), but it also made me look at wildlife I hadn't recorded before -seaweed and egg cases. It is good to get out of your comfort zone occasionally 😊 @strandliners.bsky.social

White knapweed, Meadowsweet,Hogweed & Cow parsley. #wildflowerhour

Hedgerow Cranesbill was still flowering well in the afternoon sunshine on Pigeon's Rough, near Shrewsbury, last Thursday afternoon: #WildflowerHour #Shropshire 🟣

Spotted dead nettle, Little St Mary’s, Cambridge. #WildflowerHour

Trailing bellflower growing as a pavement plant in Cambridge. #WildflowerHour

Near a busy road in Leicester, Dogwood, Shepherd's Purse, Ragwort (and the leaves of a thistle) and Ivy. #WildflowerHour

Forget-me-not in flower at Ely Leisure Village. #WildflowerHour

Autumn yellows. Hedge mustard, Ragwort with female Sphaerophoria hoverfly and Lady’s bedstraw. #WildflowerHour

#wildflowerhour smooth hawks-beard and greater knapweed near the top of Chapel Hill, Lewes

By the River Soar, Leicester city centre: white flower, Parsley family, white berry, snowberry. #WildFlowerHour

Corn marigold and speedwell amongst the stubble by the #Pembrokeshire coastal path Porthgain #Wildflowerhour

Lots of Shaggy Soldier by the river today. Also Ivy flowers and Ragwort, away from the river. #WildflowerHour

Nick Davis, Reporting from Jamaica: "I'd like to dedicate this first live page dispatch to my cousin Andrew, who works for the power company, away from his girls, to make sure the infrastructure we need is in place when we need it." www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv...

Common Hogweed in flower, North Yorkshire this weekend. #wildflowerhour #Yorkshire #sunset

Harebell, Campanula rotundifolia with a view. There are still quite a few in flower on limestone grasslands up here in South #Cumbria. Newbiggin Crags. #Wildflowerhour

Saw some cracking fungi this week for #wildfungihour I'm not very good at fungi ID, but these may be wood blewit (purple one) and shaggy parasol... #wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Common Toadflax still flowering in #Devon hedgerow. #WildFlowerHour

Autumn sunshine, Great Mullein, and a Marmalade Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus) - a little #WildflowerHour golden moment this week.

Yarrow, Daisies and Black Nightshade growing in patch of grass between a main road and a retail park. #urbanflowers #WildflowerHour

Autumn colours 🍂 Marianne North was born #OnThisDay, read about the trailblazing artist 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/marianne-north-a-trailblazing-artist#OnThisDay There's over 1,000 of her works to explore on Art UK! 'Autumn Tints in the White Mountains' by Marianne North (1830–1890) 📷 Kew Gardens

Planetary Rings xkcd.com/3156/

Daisy in the autumn rains today for #WildflowerHour

Pretty in pink are the Herb Robert and Creeping Thistle in Flower up the lane #wildflowerhour

Primroses & Centaury flowering in Mayo. #wildflowerhour

Shaggy Soldier and Ragwort. #wildflowerhour

Ivy flowering next to the River Soar, Leicester, this morning, before the fog cleared. #WildflowerHour

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com p.s. My new book of science cartoons 'Physics for Cats' is out this week. Details at www.tomgauld.com

"They discovered how the immune system is kept in check." Also raising the profile of research into autoimmune diseases, when the check no longer works, with devastating consequences. #nobelprize www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medic...

For #WildflowerHour this evening, Silverweed with a bonus 7-spot Ladybird.

Tutsan, The Metals, Dún Laoghaire. #wildflowerhour

Mallow flowers; thinking common mallow and thinking musk mallow #WildFlowerHour

Scentless Mayweed and Shaggy Soldier. #WildFlowerHour

Crocus nudiflorus (Autumn Crocus) spreading in Shrewsbury in the Quarry. There are more over towards Frankwell in more natural grassland but we were passing these in the week and they were looking splendid in the autumn sunshine. @janettem34.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

Lots of Michaelmas daisies and the odd bee. #WildflowerHour

Sea rocket, Monreith Beach, Dumfries and Galloway #wildflowerhour

Common Toadflax that has colonised a driveway of an empty property. #wildflowerhour

Rosehips and dried Teasel on a patch of wasteland in an industrial estate. #wildflowerhour

My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books

Discworld QOTD, from Going Postal

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