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‘Freshwater forensics: Using DNA to solve the mysteries of biodiversity change’.
Lecture by
@berndhae.bsky.social Weds 18th March.
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#eDNA #aquatic #biodiversity #fish #invertebrates
Nettle (Urtica dioica) plants with lots of small holes in the leaves.
Who is eating holes into these nettles? They look as though they have been peppered with grape shot. No visible culprit at Wimbotsham yesterday.
@andymus.bsky.social?
A golden yellow-coloured apple with lightly red, streaked skin photographed against a blueish-green coloured background.
A golden yellow-coloured apple with lightly red, streaked skin. It has a brown mould spot about the size of a new penny on it. Photographed against a blueish-green coloured background.
Cross-section of an irregularly-shaped apple photographed against a blueish-green background.
Time to day goodbye to my last stored apple. Didn't they last well? They came from an old tree near the lane.
I'll get its DNA analysed @niab-uk.bsky.social but could be an old variety, Yorkshire Greening - good for eating as well as cooking - aka Yorkshire Goosesauce, a tart condiment.
#orchards
Improving Bee Hotel Design: The Big Bee Hotel Experiment with @davegoulson ...
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Soldierfly Quiz! 📝
Can you name these four UK species?
Soldierflies are bold, metallic flower visitors with fascinating life histories.
Want to learn how to identify them? 🧪
Join our #entoLEARN on 16 Apr:
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@kitenet.bsky.social @uk-soldierflies.bsky.social
Too right!
Well said!
I doubt many exTwitter participants are interested in much beyond belly-aching in a grumpy chemtrail-inspired/Trumpist/Reformist/Starmer-kicking/fossil-fueled/bot-ridden echo-chamber.
He got left behind after the Battle of Mons Graupius.
<Just 20 accounts, excl Lennon himself, are resp for 36.8% of all retweet activity within the... echo chamber. This conc'd amplification acts as a force multiplier, creating illusion of widespread, organic public support while masking the movement’s underlying dependence on a small, coord'd elite.>
"The Black Death disrupted this [biodiversity] by reducing human disturbance. The result was a less patchy landscape and an overall loss in plant diversity. Diversity only recovered when extensive farming returned."
Interesting fossil #pollen research @york.ac.uk
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As seen springing on a matted road island at Bungay. As leaking up beside dog-irrigated lamp-posts. As waving little white hankies from brick walls
They are exceedingly rum things.
Lamps breeding streetline patches of darkness and sounds falling dead. Mist, breath, mist. Sweating bricks. Eine echt Werwolfstadt.
Hope it sells a million.
😄 Bufo breath!
I have just laid a clean microscope slide on my patio table. In the morning I shall inspect for tell-tale patina.
For added excitement while looking for bee-flies, check your local daffodil patches for the Daffodil Dung-fly, a spiny-legged fly that is in the dung-fly family but has nothing to do with 💩
They do say you can hear them breathing, of a night.
An avenue of oak trees appearing through fog across a damp, grassy field.
Something is infesting the Suffolk claylands with massing fog (through which one cannot discern a church tower 1 km away).
X-Twitter blames it on sinister chemtrail scientists.
The @metoffice.gov.uk blames it on Saharan dust.
I blame it on sea-serpents off Orford Ness.
#Suffolk #weather #fog
Tilia with a heart
Witches' nests
Twiggery pubis
Grandma!
I'm sure Mary could supply the kosher monikers.
Unfortunately I think the moss pads concentrate water leading to freeze-thaw erosion of tiled substrate.
Last summer Dunwich Greyfriars Trust swiped its grassland down to degree zero, even right up to the walls. Goodbye flowers, butterflies, grasshoppers - hello stubble and a thatch of dead stalks. Have promised to do things differently this year. Great Green Grasshopper recorded at the site.
Mosses play a lively part on the ecosystem of my roofs.
On the south-facing surface, Sparkly Petting-moss.
On the north-facing surface, Manky Mush-moss.
Both have robust populations of mites and water-bears for endless microscopic fun.
Work to help my Flora Guardian plant Creeping Marshwort in Norfolk. Needs all the help it can get, Endangered status.
Contact David Pentin to check.
Iranians came together to bid a final farewell to 168 young girls, aged 7 to 12, who were killed in a U.S.-Israeli strike targeting their elementary school.
