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Ivy Bee in sunshine where else but on ivy, in the company of a ladybird, and visiting a shady sandy bank. Almost certainly not the same bee! 😉
#WildWebsWednesday #Suffolk #Brecks

Ruined wall in Abbey Gardens #BuryStEdmunds #Suffolk with autumn colour of Broad-leaved Cockspur Thorn, #Crataegus × persimilis. #WallsOnWednesday

Perhaps a rebuild after they'd lost the instructions. Perimeter wall of St Lawrence churchyard at Lackford #Suffolk.
#WallsOnWednesday

Good to have it growing wild. The only example I know is a small tree in Cambridge Botanic Garden.
@cubotanicgarden.bsky.social #Crataegus

three drying black berries on red stems still on the bush, a few leaves from green to yellowing to reddening

Black Hawthorn (Crataegus douglasii)
#idaho
#nativeplants

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

Leaked video from speech to Tech bosses at JP Morgan Tech Stars event appears to show Chancellor Rachel Reeves boasting of a "good relationship with the developer" as one of the rarest creatures in Britain "some snails on the site that are a protected species or something" could pay the price.

Nice photos! I was going to say it would be a good idea to put that in iRecord but it looks like it's already there since 23 September.

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Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

"Rachel Reeves unblocked a development of 20,000 homes that were being held up by a rare snail, after being approached by a developer with whom she said, 'we have a good relationship'

Not only stupid and ignorant, but crooked with it

Indefensible

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Yes, mine's in iRecord already. I've seen it in a field edge in Suffolk Brecks. Sometimes these have 'game bird' seed mixes and I wonder if it's a common contaminant?

They seem to turn up as contaminants in the seed of other plants. Once they grow they are attractive enough to avoid being weeded out. No idea how this one cam to be where it was. I'm sure botany recorder for VC27 East Norfolk would be interested in your plant!

N. physalodes of course! 🙄

In an otherwise barren verge around a supermarket carpark in Newmarket Rd #Cambridge surprised to find Apple of Peru, Nicandra physaloides, looking as though it has been carefully tended! 💜🖤🤗
#Solanaceae #Nightshades #Botany
@bsbibotany.bsky.social

Catherine Sutherland at her desk working.

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Congratulations! Here’s a photo I happen to have on my phone of what I think is Peltigera rufescens #Lichen at @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social Lackford Lakes. ‘Where it always is’ on dry sandy soil, and looking pinkish in the sunshine.

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Honoured to announce my appointment as the new County #Lichen Recorder for Suffolk! Grateful to @suffolk-nats1929.bsky.social for the opportunity to serve, as well as to my predecessor and now 'Emeritus Recorder' Dr Chris Hitch, a lichenological giant of East Anglia. aspenecology.com/suffolk-coun...

Curiosity & nature await! Forest school–style play & storytelling for toddlers 2–5, nurturing mindfulness & connection with the outdoors. £7/child. Mon 13 Oct - Book: https://cambridgeppf.org/etn/story-meadow-toddler-group-for-2-5-years-10/
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There's a huge dead tree trunk in the local park that's not as photogenic as this autumnal Sweet Gum, Liquidambar styraciflua, in front of it. 🍒🏘️ Cherry Hinton Hall #Cambridge #ThickTrunkTuesday

What's coming up at our Youth Action for Nature Day?

A range of workshops & inspiring talks from amazing youth-led groups including BTO Youth Ambassadors, UK Youth 4 Nature, Kids Against Plastics and Youngwilders!

https://www.suffolkwildlifetrust.org/events/2025-10-18-youth-action-nature

My mum was fond of it too perhaps because it always featured in late August holidays to the West Country. I’m a bit annoyed that it now gets called Crocosmia!

Same era: Montbretia. French botanist Antoine de Montbret in Napoleon's 1798 Egypt expedition & died there of plague, 1801. Fellow botanist Delile survived expedition & named 'Gratista Montbretie' in his honour. What is now Monbretia = Crocosmia x crocosmiiflora, garden origin 1880.

Great photo! That’s another use for the 365nm UV light I got to search for Brimstone caterpillars.

I saw a single Hornet once while looking for hover flies and last year lots patrolling a hedge. Only nests I’ve seen were this one and one last year at another reserve where it was signposted. Can’t say that’s a trend.

If you're called Fairy Ring Mushroom, Marasmius oreades, you're duty bound to make an effort with your mates to at least try to form a ring. #Fungi growing on Icklingham Triangle SSSI #Suffolk.

Some #fungi growing on Icklingham Triangle SSSI #Suffolk. In the background you can see needles from Scots Pine so maybe Bovine Bolete, Suillus bovinus as in recent photos by @jeremybartlett.bsky.social - what do you think Jeremy please? 🤔

We look forward to further instalments in your series 'literary and historical associations of flowering plants' Moira! 😉

The symbol of the fictional Sir Percy Blakeney’s secret identity as the Scarlet Pimpernel - Lysimachia arvensis growing outside Heathfield House in Croydon. #WildflowerHour

How can you
'deport' someone whom you abducted in an act of piracy?

It's been a great autumn so far for parasols. A few of those that Mrs K foraged this afternoon going in a venison stew tonight...

Lots around in the Suffolk Brecks and I saw a muntjac too!