Much warmer here today, and spring has resumed.
#bird-cherry flowering in a wilder part of the garden, and #wisteria standards grown in containers for fun - because, honestly, why wouldn’t you?
The garden’s first #damselfly of 2026 this afternoon, a large red 😍
@britishdragonflies.bsky.social
Hollyhock seed moth is a regular here in June, Will, but your specimen lacks the uniform dark central cross-line separated by a narrow pale band from the dark outermost line, so I would say not.
Keep on keeping on!
Tim, you must make an extra visit in spring to Mousehold to see many more!
Good numbers of spring butterflies here, particularly holly blues. Micro numbers & species diversity do seem low - but then late-Feb / early-Mar was good! 🤷🏼
‘Life is like a box of chocolates ..’
A good night on the heath last night, incl. 7x lunar marbled brown, least black arches, scalloped hook-tip and a NFSite highlight: the emperor!
Apols for appalling photo - not only would it not settle, the only container big enough was a jam jar with LQ glass
#teammoth
2026 first-gen fig-skeletoniser on the wing today in the garden - gearing up to compromise my harvest… again 🙄.
Also BBYU larva during repotting
#teammoth
In the garden this afternoon as it’s getting warmer again: a new species - always exciting - box bug (gonocerus acuteangulatus, the first red mason bee of this spring, a male holly blue and a peacock
Sadly NO!
But you really should make more of these kinds of posts
d’accord
Valiant attempt 👏🏻
Never too late to offer-up a fluffy bombylius, LYU larva (safely relocated), and some vine weevil larvae from repotting that have mysteriously vanished from a shallow tray placed on the bird table 😉
#teammoth
Conocybe pygmaeoaffinis. Picked fruitbody (on the lined page of a notebook).
Conocybe pygmaeoaffinis. Picked fruitbody (on the lined page of a notebook).
Conocybe pygmaeoaffinis. Spores x 1000 (unstained).
Conocybe pygmaeoaffinis. Cheilocystidia (stained with Congo red).
Conocybe pygmaeoaffinis.
I collected this fungus from a wood at Earsham, Norfolk, last November & submitted it for analysis by the Norfolk Fungus Study Group DNA Team.
I wrongly thought it was a brittlestem (Psathyrella).
Results just back - a new species for Norfolk.
#Fungi #FungiFriends
Astonishing numbers & diversity, Dave, as usual!
First Holly Blue of 2026 in the garden this afternoon - and several less pristine Commas & Peacocks.
The Brimstones won’t settle!
#butterflies
@norfolkbutterflies.bsky.social
37/6 with a very heavy dew that soaked everything, but including early grey, common plume, 17x common quaker and two small quakers with ostrich takes on concealment
#teammoth
Go, Steve. Raining here
Both, in your garden today?!
Amazing,
Thought about it, but conflicting forecasts. It’s clear right now, with Orion looking spectacular 🤷🏼
Outstanding!
Particularly water carpet
Pragmatic decision-making, Dave.
In my location under the city’s amberdome, winter-trapping means wasted electricity, soggy egg cartons and not much else!
We should arrange a badge
#Frog frolics this morning, and a peaceful fifteen minutes.
Pottering with the native wildflowers in my greenhouse nursery, I flush Beautiful Plumes in every month of the year. Very satisfying.
Not that that Mother Shipton - this Mother Shipton!
I was trying to stay on-topic
