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Blurry picture of slightly wonky morel mushroom
Amazed by a morel!
Only my second time seeing one... Last time was probably the in the 80s!
The Dark-clawed Chthonic, Chthonius tenuis at Higher Hyde Heath Dorset today.
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3 Lily beetles, striking red colour, but pestilential.
Striking looking bug(-ger)s
Jellyfish baby! This stage is called an ephyra, and this is what jellyfish look like after they’ve popped off their polyp (strobilation)! I’m pretty sure this is a moon jelly (Aurelia aurita) and I’d love to have someone confirm (or deny) this.
#marineplankton 🦑
Sea Slater, Ligia oceanica. A type of crustacean, closely related to woodlice. On a rock.
Sea Slater, Ligia oceanica. A type of crustacean, closely related to woodlice. On a rock.
Sea Slater, Ligia oceanica. A type of crustacean, closely related to woodlice. On a rock, with my thumb for scale.
Sea Slater, Ligia oceanica.
Lots under stones around the coast at Wembury and Plymouth last week. They usually move very fast when disturbed but sometimes one stays still and can be photographed.
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#UKWildlife
Gorgeous Slow Worm (Anguis fragilis) in the garden today. North Herefordshire
A #birddivination for those of us attempting change, available as a solo print at bit.ly/swallowdivin.... Find the original set of 100, along with the story and process behind them, at almanacofirds.org
Lots of Early Colletes - Colletes cunicularius, bee activity in South Staffordshire near Stourbridge today
Complex maze-like galleries under a flat fungus
Underside of a bracket fungus, very fingerprinty.
Beetle on water. carpet beetles are household pests, and like wool, fur etc. Amazing camouflage in browny white.
Anthrenus sp. in the dog's water bowl! Rescued and placed outside.
Nice photo...used my wife's phone...
She's very understanding ❤️
A group of four yellowish-brown fungi in grass and bare soil
Morels! Found it the West Midlands, England #FungiFriends #mycology
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Bunch of bananas with a white fluffy spot with legs, a mealy bug. Picture taken in a supermarket.
Mealy bug on banana. #SupermarketEntomology.
Cut to white #naturalhistory #illustration of the Great green #bushcricket #Tettigoniaviridissima. It is facing right and has long thin antennae sweeping behind it. The whole insect is a soft pale green with tiny scarlet lines on the wings and top of thorax and head. The ovipositor is large and flushed crimson. Front legs point forward and hind legs are bent, ready to spring into the air. The wings are held at an angle that allows you to see the abdominal segments below. This insect was illustrated for a wildlife reserve in coastal Devon, UK, where the bush crickets hang out in unimproved grassland overlooking the sea
This is the Great green bush #cricket #Tettigonia viridissima, #sciart illustration, in watercolour.
I've seen these insects in the wild, but although large they're amazingly well camouflaged. I loved painting the the network of wing veins, and the sweep of the antennae. #insect #entomology
The reedbeds at Garston Coastal Reserve looking amazing in the sun this afternoon! #Liverpool #Merseyside #Garston #RiverMersey
And a drawing of the spitting spider in action from W S Bristowe's 'The World of Spiders' in the New Naturalist series (1958)
6 earthworms on a tarmac path in the rain
290+ worms spotted on the path this morning.
It's such a treat seeing the vitality of nature on a rainy and overcast morning.
Remember: Worms enable humanity!
Always check for #Binvertebrates! Bin tasks can take a long time I'm our household.
Tick booty
Gotta celebrate every #Binvertebrate
Magical #FungiFriends #ScarletElfcup
Under a rock on a beach, gravel and sea slaters
Sea slaters!
