Clare Blencowe

They should though 😍

It's now listed on @summerfieldbooks.com www.summerfieldbooks.com/product/cup-...

It's publication day!

It's a bit more of a 'whoopsie' vibe than I would expect from a marauding dinosaur.

Self-published, with the help of Geoffrey Kibby, John Holden covers 98 species, with plenty of great photos and bags of useful, accessible notes and observations.
An absolute must-have for anyone with an interest slime moulds! tr.ee/cqMdipPL_B
#slimemoulds #myxomycetesuk #forestofdean

"In the damp, dark places of the world; beneath the leaf litter of a wood, in the hidden crevices of bark, inside rotting stumps, and even on decaying fungi, there lurk unseen predators which stalk their prey and engulf it as an amoeba engulfs bacteria."

Macro photo of a brown stink bug in face view on a leaf, guarding a tightly-clustered bunch of eggs that are shaped and colored exactly like a full tray of dark beer with foam on top.

Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.

Thank you to all these people for keeping the wheels on the BHL bus 👇

Oh, considerably smaller than I was expecting

Job ad with text: Sussex Wildlife Trust hiring: Biodiversity Support Officer (Sussex Biodiversity Records Centre). Apply by 15 March 2026. Background of meadow flowers and grasses.

Sussex Biodiversity Records Centre is looking for a Biodiversity Support Officer, based at The Keep, Brighton. 

Apply by 15 March. 

https://f.mtr.cool/daqxzhxvjk

I can thoroughly recommend a holiday in Antwerp to see exactly how they did it at the Plantin-Moretus Museum. It's only a short hop from Brussels if you take the Eurostar.

🗣️: From Waste to Wonder: The Mysterious World of Fungi that Grow on Dung
📆: 02.22.2026 @ 10:00—12:00
📍: Zoom!
🔗 : www.newyorkmyc.org/event/from-w...

#mycotalk #mycology #talks #mushroom

Are you following the moss safari guy? Moss is where it's at.

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The Yellow Eyed Ensatina (Ensatina eschscholtzii xanthoptica) of the San Francisco Bay Area has a very moody blue fluorescence under 365 nm light. Saw a lot of the out this morning #salamander #Ensatina #UVF

small hours big time clear day / clear night it smells different - the stars, larger in a room with no light looking out

14/2/26 - nocturn

We're trialling something new this year at the BSBI - an activity designed to support absolute beginner botanists with identifying *and* recording their first ever 100 plants in 2026 🌿

If you know anyone that might like to take part then please spread the word:

bsbi.org/take-part/ac...

So excited for today's Sussex Biological Recorders' Seminar I woke up at 6am, dreaming about esoteric data management software.

Just joined Bluesky and excited to see how I’ll enjoy this platform

A little mushroom I painted to start with my first post! 🍄

#mushrooms #watercolour #scientificillustration #mushroomart #mycology

Good things come to those who wait, as they say!

All the cool kids go to the seed library

Cataloguing seed species and how many lil envelopes worth of each

Surrounded by bags and jars of seeds: a kind of heaven

Seeds for the Seed Library!!

A tricky complex not easy to separate on morphological features.

Discussion section in this paper mentions stout stipe, sometimes yellowing, for G. reginae:

DNA barcoding and morphological studies reveal two new species of waxcap mushrooms (Hygrophoraceae) in Britain share.google/vjR1t3rQ3czG...

Promotional poster for “Moss Safari Monthly”. Green illustrated design advertising live online microscopy sessions exploring the same moss habitat over five months. Text highlights one-hour Zoom events on the fourth Wednesday of each month from February to June 2026, 7–8pm UK time. Includes pricing (£10 per session or £40 for all five), recordings included, and a limit of 25 participants. Dates are listed alongside microscope, moss, and calendar illustrations, with buttons for “More Information” and “Book Now” and the website mosssafari.com.

Ever seen a live Moss Safari? Here's your chance. Join me for one or all five one hour sessions to discover what lives in moss. Learn to see the world differently. Book Now - Limited Spaces www.ticketebo.co.uk/moss-safari

Colour-printed illustration of insects on Willow catkins.

Can’t wait for it to be like this. Spring scene with insects, from ‘Brehms Tierleben’ (Leipzig, 1892). Waddleton.b.1.146 @theul.bsky.social

Illustration from "The Frog Book" (1907) depicting two frogs among green foliage. The frog on the left has a green body with dark spots and a yellowish throat. The frog on the right is larger, with a brownish body covered in irregular dark and reddish spots. Both frogs have prominent round eyes and textural skin details. The scene includes various leaves, moss, and plants, capturing a natural amphibian habitat with realistic coloring and shading.

🐸 The frog book
New York ;Doubleday, Page, 1907.

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Can I choose the 'engage an ecologist' option?

If site is home to a threatened native species, I would think it's likely got wider biodiversity interest.

Hopes for future success of a translocation project would need assessing independently, and with reference to IUCN guidelines.

I'm not sure I follow... destruction will restore it? What do you mean by that?

I don't believe in 'in perpetuity' as far as restoration initiatives go. Depends on the outlook for funding, land ownership and owner's / manager's intentions, motivations & obligations.

You can read a bunch of them every quarter in... FIELD MYCOLOGY!

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#OpenAccess

HYDRA AT A JOB INTERVIEWE

"One of my special skilles ys wearinge manye hattes."

Congratulations Graeme!

It's arrived! Pan-species Listing: How to Become a Super-Naturalist published by @pelagicpublishing. My first book.
I am so pleased with it. It looks amazing, all those photos of incredible British species really make this a very colourful book and a celebration of how fantastic our wildlife is.