Tim Holt-Wilson

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Soldierfly Quiz! 📝

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Soldierflies are bold, metallic flower visitors with fascinating life histories.

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Too right!

Well said!
I doubt many exTwitter participants are interested in much beyond belly-aching in a grumpy chemtrail-inspired/Trumpist/Reformist/Starmer-kicking/fossil-fueled/bot-ridden echo-chamber.

He got left behind after the Battle of Mons Graupius.

<Just 20 accounts, excl Lennon himself, are resp for 36.8% of all retweet activity within the... echo chamber. This conc'd amplification acts as a force multiplier, creating illusion of widespread, organic public support while masking the movement’s underlying dependence on a small, coord'd elite.>

The Black Death’s counterintuitive effect: as human numbers fell, so did plant diversity New study finds that plant biodiversity collapsed in landscapes where arable production was abandoned during and after the Black Death era.

"The Black Death disrupted this [biodiversity] by reducing human disturbance. The result was a less patchy landscape and an overall loss in plant diversity. Diversity only recovered when extensive farming returned."

Interesting fossil #pollen research @york.ac.uk
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As seen springing on a matted road island at Bungay. As leaking up beside dog-irrigated lamp-posts. As waving little white hankies from brick walls

They are exceedingly rum things.

Lamps breeding streetline patches of darkness and sounds falling dead. Mist, breath, mist. Sweating bricks. Eine echt Werwolfstadt.

Revisiting Europe's temperate forests: Palaeoecological evidence for an herbivory-driven woodland-grassland mosaic biome Understanding the pre-Homo sapiens baseline of the temperate forest biome is crucial for interpreting present-day biodiversity patterns, ecosystem fun…

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Hope it sells a million.

😄 Bufo breath!
I have just laid a clean microscope slide on my patio table. In the morning I shall inspect for tell-tale patina.

For added excitement while looking for bee-flies, check your local daffodil patches for the Daffodil Dung-fly, a spiny-legged fly that is in the dung-fly family but has nothing to do with 💩

They do say you can hear them breathing, of a night.

An avenue of oak trees appearing through fog across a damp, grassy field.

Something is infesting the Suffolk claylands with massing fog (through which one cannot discern a church tower 1 km away).
X-Twitter blames it on sinister chemtrail scientists.
The @metoffice.gov.uk blames it on Saharan dust.
I blame it on sea-serpents off Orford Ness.
#Suffolk #weather #fog

Tilia with a heart
Witches' nests
Twiggery pubis

Grandma!

I'm sure Mary could supply the kosher monikers.

Unfortunately I think the moss pads concentrate water leading to freeze-thaw erosion of tiled substrate.

Last summer Dunwich Greyfriars Trust swiped its grassland down to degree zero, even right up to the walls. Goodbye flowers, butterflies, grasshoppers - hello stubble and a thatch of dead stalks. Have promised to do things differently this year. Great Green Grasshopper recorded at the site.

Mosses play a lively part on the ecosystem of my roofs.
On the south-facing surface, Sparkly Petting-moss.
On the north-facing surface, Manky Mush-moss.
Both have robust populations of mites and water-bears for endless microscopic fun.

Work to help my Flora Guardian plant Creeping Marshwort in Norfolk. Needs all the help it can get, Endangered status.

Contact David Pentin to check.

Iranians came together to bid a final farewell to 168 young girls, aged 7 to 12, who were killed in a U.S.-Israeli strike targeting their elementary school.

Who is asking for control of society to be ceded to AI?

It looks as though the structure was making use of a natural rock formation. The capstone was either at former ground level and the peat & soil have eroded away, or soil was artificially mounded up around it. Whichever, the grave is missing its surrounding womb of earth.

Creeping Marshwort conservation with Thetford Conservation Group. Meet 10.30 at Nun's Bridges Car Park, Thetford.
Work to support and protect Thetford's rarest plant, discovered here in 2020 (only found in two other places in the UK!). Contact David Pentin www.icanbea.org.uk/app/explore/...

The sooner our economies get off the oil & gas bandwagon the better. It would reconfigure Middle Eastern politics for a start...