Fay Newbery

The dates for the 2026 BLS AGM should be announced soon. Always a good event!

Cherry plums seem to be having a prolific year. I've seen lots fallen at the edges of major roads while travelling today. Sadly, in places too dangerous for anyone to pick. The birds will enjoy them. But could this fruit bounty be connected to the three road-killed badgers I've also seen?

The same level of care would work for rare lichens during roof maintainable work. Could something similar be possible for rare organisms living on thatch?

Wish I could make this. I'm sure your audience will enjoy the talk @neacarter.bsky.social

You've caught the hyphae radiating from infection sites really well @rogerhorton.bsky.social I've never managed this!

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Why do treehoppers look so weird?! Our latest paper, out this week in @pnas.org, suggests a perhaps unexpected reason - static electricity ⚡ We show that treehoppers can detect the electrostatic cues of predators and that their crazy shapes may boost their electrosensitivity! doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

New #OpenAccess paper, describing/validating our hedgerows map using #lidar and Countryside Survey.

641,080 km of woody linear features in England

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Cuphea caeciliae buzzing with bees at RHS Garden Rosemoor today despite overcast sky. No other plant, not even Salvia, was attracting a good number or range of bees in the same bed.

Great work. The china is going to look gorgeous.

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It's always hard to remember how important this is. But use a new blade and it reminds you! So much easier to make thin and even sections with a fresh blade.

Well done @sueinscotland.bsky.social I've only seen this species once in 15 years!

They'll break into plastic boxes too. Tins all the way!

Sorry @sim-elliott.bsky.social Not a lichen I'm familiar with.

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Well spotted. Nothing comes to mind. Have you put it in the LF Facebook group yet?

Or love it! Knowing her she will want to dress up and live it!

Already on my granddaughter's birthday list. She's going to live it!

How did you get on @sim-elliott.bsky.social ?

Great resources @lizzie-harper.bsky.social Thank you!

Mainly several Corn chamomile (Anthemis arvensis) and a single poppy

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(Equal growth-rates in two lichens would produce a more-or-less straight line.) I doubt if you would find any thallus overgrowing another thallus if you sectioned the boundary line. But happy to be proved wrong!

I'm guessing that these two lichens were expanded theri roughly circular thalli and they first met at the angle of their present shared boundary. After that the Ochrolechia parella, appears to have grown faster than the Circinaria calcarea resulting in the bent line.

Hope you enjoyed the course, @sim-elliott.bsky.social The Physcietum ascendentis community is certainly common in southern England. I wonder if it's as common further north?

Sorry @galling.bsky.social . Didn't realise you were on Bluesky. I'm looking forward to seeing your posts.

A deep pink Rhododendron 'Fantastica' in full flower.

A flowering Cornus shrub with pink petal-like bracts.

A tall Cornus controversa tree in full flower behind a white-flowered Philadelphus purpurascens shrub.

A white-flowered Rhodendron setting off the lichens on the trunk of Cornus contraversa.

Looking great this week at RHS Rosemoor: (descriptions in alt text)

Tell us more @peterbraubach.bsky.social This looks really cool - and small. What chemicals will you be using?

You're right. Sorry. I heard that a ban on sale of R. Ponticum was being considered. I thought it had gone through. What a shame it hasn't!

I'd so like to come to this but can't. Will the talks be recorded and shared later?