Amidst a big nocturnal passage of thrushes last night, this Ring Ouzel passed over my Cambridge garden. Detected using the BTO Acoustic Pipeline's nocmig classifier xeno-canto.org/1047905 @cambsbirdclub.bsky.social #UKBirding 🔉

It's the dominant life form of Scilly, it would seem!

Here's a mutANT. Identification via standard keys fails. It's actually an aberrant individual of a Myrmica species where the petiole has fused with the thorax (and the usual spines have disappeared also). Found on St Martin's (Scilly) last week. Thanks to Andrew Jarman for confirming my suspicions.

Great stuff. Someone put me onto this - I think it was @bramblebotanist.bsky.social perhaps posting about it?

Fair enough, 'av it.

Hey, it appears to be in captivity!

Least Adder's-tongue (Ophioglossum lusitanicum) on Wingletang, St Agnes, today on a fine sunny day with @andymus.bsky.social @janettem34.bsky.social About 40 plants seen in 2 tiny patches of habitat #wildflowerhour

This is the story of my daughter Milly and Lyme Disease. There was no rash, no "summer flu", NHS blood tests negative. And she's been ill for a quarter of her life.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Thank you @lymediseaseuk.bsky.social & @lymeresourcecentre.bsky.social for raising UK awareness.

Yep!

This male Tachina from Shotesham (E Norfolk) in August looks pretty spot-on for the newly colonising (or at least newly recognised) T. magnicornis

Species 8,298: Macrosteles sardus, a hopper beaten from Great Willowherb on Shotesham Common, 100m from my desk. Thanks to @tim-hodge.bsky.social for the suggestion!

Well Merveille du Jour finally crossed my peepers today thanks to @laurasharp.bsky.social and Helen Rowe, also Ypsolopha parenthesella and a stunning (and wonderfully named) Carabus problematicus beetle #teammoth

Absolutely, a classic @panspecieslisting.bsky.social song!

A reminder that we have a weekend of NNNS fungi-related events coming up. On Saturday 27th Sept 2025 at 10:30, national fungus expert & author Geoffrey Kibby will be leading a walk at Litcham Warren. See norfolknaturalists.org.uk/wp/events-pa... for meeting point details.

On Sunday 28th September 2025, 10:30-4, county fungus recorder Dr Tony Leech is putting on a whole-day fungus identification workshop at Wheatfen, inc both lab & field parts. There is a cost of £15 & places are limited, so please book with Tony, details on norfolknaturalists.org.uk/wp/events-pa...

Marginal veins of Nymphaea alba (left) and Nymphaea candida (right) for comparison.. Veins of candida join to form closed loops, those of alba end at the leaf edge. Of course there’s a hybrid too, which is common where they meet.

Not one I recognise if so

Now available Harry

Finding pseudoscopions. Our compost bin had Pselaphochernes scorpioides in it. To search: scoop out top layer of kitchen/garden waste & put in bucket. Sieve next layer down using garden riddle over a bowl. Then use finer potting sieve over tray. They are small, around 2mm. 1/2
@duleyp.bsky.social

will do

Great find, very few recent records of this species.

Really enjoyed talking sawflies all day long today with the @norfolknats.bsky.social

Great stuff, thanks for confirming!

Increasingly regular now across much of the south-east.