Visited last remaining patch of lagg fen on the Thorne Peatlands today: originally the transition between the raised mass of rainfed peat and surrounding groundwater fed wetland. This narrow strip was cut for peat in medieval/early modern era but by a quirk of fate escaped 'warping' with silt.
Photo of a number of bright orange lichens on grey rock. The largest lichen in the middle is shaped like a heart.
Elegant orange sunburst lichen (Rusavskia elegans). NWT, Canada.
Photo covers about 10cm, left to right.
#lichen #fungi #fungifriends #heart
New Dispatch article on the multitude of fungal symbionts now being reported in lichens, led by @puginiercamille.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Field margin with wildflowers that can support butterflies in arable farmland
Livestock grazing is essential to maintaining grasslands in the mountains of Europe. Extensive cattle grazing has been shown to be the most beneficial but any extensive system is good
Grassland butterflies are declining across Europe, but how do we reverse that trend? We have just produced a report with some simple guidance to land managers and policy makers on how to 'Bend the curve' and help increase butterflies and other pollinators. www.bc-europe.eu/webpage.php?...
But there are honourable exceptions… Le Carré, and if it’s poorly written you’ll know by page five. And can abandon.
Nobody has ever been so lyrically yet thoroughly excoriated as in this piece. And yet, few people have ever deserved such a complete dismantling as the Prince formerly known as Andrew
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Immersed in crime and police procedurals, murder and mayhem … stuff essentially of no importance. But they must have location worthy of description. In Australia at the moment.
I just don't believe this
FFS renationalise now - without compensation
www.theguardian.com/money/2026/m...
This is us. A small regional town in New South Wales of about 24,000 people. An administrative and education centre, farming region, on a major interstate highway. Some local servos now completely out of retail fuel. www.armidaleexpress.com.au/story/919462...
A small selection of the orchids to be seen on our annual Orchids of Rhodes tour
We think a conservation charity shouldn't have to wait for a donation; not for months, and certainly not for years.
We've made our #OrchidsOfCyprus donation to @bsbibotany.bsky.social today, the day after the tour ended. We've donated to them after every orchid tour since Mariposa formed.
#orchids
♥️🌞🙏🏻
Thank you. Xx
Me, knackered.
I'll keep runnin' if you keep sponsorin'. www.justgiving.com/page/richard...
Today, we're publishing Don't Steal This Book - a (mostly) empty book from almost 10,000 authors, protesting the theft of their work by AI companies.
🧵 1/3
Ca tree frog on wet rock
maidenhair fern
desert dandelions and palm log
Roadrunner on old palm log , brittlebushes flowering in foreground.
A few more photos from Borrego Palm Canyon last Sunday, including a California tree frog on a rock near maidenhair ferns, and a roadrunner on a washed down California native fan palm trunk (Photos: Sicco Rood).
Well, yeah. 😘
This weekend I made the annual pilgrimage to the host of wild daffs at Steps Bridge, on the edge of Dartmoor, so here's a video of an amazing ant heap
Thoreau, March 10, 1852. I see cup lichens (cladonias) with their cups beset inside and out with little leafets like shellwork.
[Cladonia grayi, Gray's cup lichen, by Jason Hollinger]
I tick all of those, plus east/west divide. Plus capability of causing glazing of the eyes in innocent conversation. 🥸
Forced retirement from work.
I used to find that travelling to that London for work on the train from York was like time travelling. Approx three weeks ahead down there. 💚🌱
A *food bank* attacked by an arsonist.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
🧡♥️🙏🏻
The final shot from the Saharan dust storm is probably my favourite. I was literally being dragged away from the beach at this point by my OH ... couldn't stop taking #PHOTOS #NatureIsMagic #photographer
Incipient blackthorn blossom Prunus spinosa
Shotesham St. Mary church, Norfolk.
Clustered Brittlestem, Britzelmayria multipedata.
Clustered Brittlestem, Britzelmayria multipedata.
Clustered Brittlestem, Britzelmayria multipedata.
Clustered Brittlestem, Britzelmayria multipedata.
Shotesham St. Mary church, Norfolk.
Seen on today's bike ride with @vannabartlett.bsky.social.
www.naturespot.org/species/clus...
#Fungi #FungiFriends
