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cream colored carton with tan stripes; wooden box with inscription on inside and outside of lid; wrapped in tissue; paper around scroll inside of tie; fabric is yellow; rollers are white porcelain with blue detail; image of a waterfall on the left with text on the right, building LL

A Man of Noble Character Views a Waterfall https://collections.artsmia.org/art/116372/

Birmingham's terrible public transport effectively shrinks the city to around 900k at peak times, well below Manchester even www.citymonitor.ai/analysis/bir...

Cropped image showing an engraving of an octopus

Full-page engraving from a book. It shows an octopus lying on the seabed, with a squid and a cuttlefish coming towards. The cuttlefish is making a cloud. The engraving is captioned: 'Plate XI. A Poulpe. A Cuttle-Fish Making His Cloud. A Calmar'.

Good morning to everyone but especially to all the octopuses, for today is their special day!

To celebrate World Octopus Day, here's an illustration of an octopus from the book 'The World of the Sea' by Moquin Tandon, published in 1869.

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#WorldOctopusDay #OctopusDay #RareBooks

A dark event poster titled "Gothica: Video Game Gothic" with Dr. Efram Sera-Shriar. Red text and dripping blood adorn the upper part. Below is pixel art scenery depicting a gothic landscape with a skull and horns. Event details show a Zoom session on Thursday, 23rd October, from 5:00 to 6:30 pm BST. Contact @uobgothica@gmail.com

It's officially spooky szn! 👻

We're back 😈

🎮 Video Game Gothic
🗣 Dr Efram Sera-Shriar
📆 Thurs 23rd Oct
🕔 5pm (BST)
📍Zoom

Efram is an Associate Professor at University of Copenhagen. He is currently working on representations of occulture in video games from late 70s & and mid-90s.

DM to join 👾

Atlas des champignons comestibles et vénéneux Paris, P. Klincksieck, 1891. http://biodiversitylibrary.org/item/22673

Atlas des champignons comestibles et vénéneux Paris, P. Klincksieck, 1891. (source: http://biodiversitylibrary.org/item/22673) #nature #illustration #art

#MycoBookClub

Day 7 #Invertober2025 - Scaly foot gastropod (Chrysomallon squamiferum) 🐌

SNAIL. BYE.

#SciArt #invertebrates

Collins Guide to MUSHROOMS & TOADSTOOLS By Morten Lange & F. Bayard Hora

Nature book challenge. A book per day in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews.
#Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky
#MycoBookClub

We're going a bit batty in celebration of #BatAppreciationMonth. Archibald Thorburn's "British Mammals" (1920-1921) contains some of our favorite bat #SciArt in #BHLib. Check it out thanks to #FieldMuseum
➡️ www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48418555 #BatMonth 🦇 🧪

#OnThisDay in 1849, Edgar Allan Poe passed away under mysterious circumstances. Of all the artists who gave life to Poe's macabre tales over the years, perhaps none captured them quite so brilliantly as the Irish artist Harry Clarke: publicdomainreview.org/collection/h... #OTD #EdgarAllanPoe

Illustration is a detailed scientific illustration of a type of cup fungus, specifically identified by the text as Peziza coccinea (now known as Sarcoscypha coccinea or the scarlet elfcup) and Peziza epidendra. The illustration shows several specimens of the fungus at different stages of growth and from various angles. The fungi are depicted with vibrant red interiors and white exteriors, growing on a piece of dead wood.

From James Sowerby's Coloured Figures of English Fungi or Mushrooms, published in three volumes between 1797 and 1809.

Bats Under a Full Moon
by Ohara Koson, ca. 1910

No worries, I'm annoyed by people picking excessive numbers of fungi too

GRASSLAND FUNGI a field guide 3rd edition By Elsa Wood and Jon Dunkelman Additional photographs by Keith Moseley and Malcolm Schuyl

Nature book challenge. A book per day in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews.
#Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky
#MycoBookClub

It was for an event to teach people about fungi and how to identify them. There were also specimens that needed to be examined in more detail to identify them

in the forest, a figure wears a garment reminiscent of a columned stinkhorn mushroom, featuring curved red and pink stalks that meet at the top. the figure's face peeks out from a bulbous white appendage at its base.

in the forest, two figures wear matching red garments reminiscent of dog stinkhorn mushrooms.

Halloween is weeks away. What's your costume? Riitta Ikonen is giving us some ideas with these fungi fits 🍄

www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/10/ikon...

Fluorescence of a Russula under 365nm UV light #FungiFriends #Fungi #Mycology #Fluorescent

I think this is Volvariella murinella - grey streaked cap, volva at stipe base and pinkish gills when mature #FungiFriends #mycology #fungi #ukwildlife #UKFungi

Treasure hunting again on the magical Quantock Hills, a very good year for fungi 😀 #quantockhills #ukfungi

Orange peel fungus found on the path next to the railway line.

Storm Amy last weekend meant sessions planned had to be postponed 😢 as it wasn't save to take people into the woods. So with a free weekend, when the weather cleared, it was lovely to spot many different fungi & slime mould about. #natureconnection #fungimatters

Day four of 31 Days of Fungi ✨
This is Magpie Inkcap!

They always seems to be in mossy conifer needle litter, so usually occur in plantations not grasslands

Those look like Honey Fungi to me

🍄‍🟫🍄It’s fungi season … a fly agaric spotted over the weekend in the park - thanks @samlkg.bsky.social.
Still a few tickets available for our Fungi Walk with @lukaslarge.bsky.social fri 17 Oct. Free to attend but booking essential
www.wegottickets.com/highburyparkfriendsbirmingham 🍄‍🟫🍄

Top row left to right; sulphur tufts, yellow waxcaps, Middle row left to right; orange waxcap, fabulous salmon pinkcolour on a December then young purple jellydiscs, Bottom row; gorgeous amethyst deceivers growing very slowly! and dead mens fingers.

#MushroomMonday Shades of #Lancashire from yesterday, sulphur tufts, yellow waxcaps, orange waxcaps? Fabulous colour on both the ordinary and amethyst deceivers, purple jellydisks? And dead mens fingers. #fungi #mushrooms #vitaminN

Saw loads of Spathularia flavida in Staffordshire yesterday. I normally see a few at this site, but there seemed to be patches everywhere this year #FungiFriends #ukwildlife #mycology #fungi #Ascomycota

Yes, it's a useful book if you don't mind it being in German. Here are a couple of example pages:

Painting of a range of fungi in a woodland scene.

It’s also #UKFungiDay today.
🖼️ Fungi, Ainsworth.

Brown Rollrim

Fly Agaric

Cep

Secondary woodland and colonising Heather on colliery waste

Out on Grendon Common in N.Warks with VC38 fungus group today. Fungus pics not mine but shared by a friend because my new PC or camera keep deciding that I have to format the SD card :-(. Keep losing pics. Some great species seen on this ex colliery site. @britmycolsoc.org.uk