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Hampshire Biodiversity Information Centre @hantsbic.bsky.social · 6d

Hello Bluesky - The 'Supporting Local Recording Fund' for Hampshire is OPEN. Get up to £350 to train, run wildlife recording activities or even buy equipment! Deadline, 31st January 2026. More information here: www.hants.gov.uk/landplanning... #BiologicalRecording #Ecology

A selection of wildlife and plant ID guides on white background with a hand lens, sound recorder, notebook, bat detector and binoculars.

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Bob Chapman @bobchapman.bsky.social · 23d

I came across what seems to be Leopoldius calceatus on a low Ivy hedge on the Hants coast today not sure if this is a new county record but certainly a first for me. @dipteristsforum.bsky.social

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BSBI Botany @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 2d

Well spotted, Billy & Joel @hantsbic.bsky.social!
Water Bent is one of our most rapidly increasing alien grasses, esp. in cities, according to its #PlantAtlas2020 page:
plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9...
Whereas Fern-grass's distribution hasn't changed so much:
plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9...

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Hampshire Biodiversity Information Centre @hantsbic.bsky.social · 14h

Marsh Mallow near Fawley and Long-stalked Crane's-bill on chalk grassland near Andover over the summer #WildflowerHour

📷Billy Dykes

Long-stalked Crane's-bill, a pale pink flower with a long stem.

Marsh Mallow - close up of the flower. It had white petals.

More Marsh Mallow. There are some stems of Reeds in amongst the patch of Marsh Mallow

Habitat shot for the Marsh Mallow. It is mostly shingle with a little sand near the water. The sea is flat and partly out. Some of the shingle and intertidal area is vegetated. On the opposite side of the water is Southampton with some tall buildings visible, as well as a wooded area.

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Tristan Norton @trisnorton.bsky.social · 2d

Peak Field Woundwort Stachys arvensis time in my best local spot in Hampshire's Test Valley. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @hantsbic.bsky.social

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Hampshire Biodiversity Information Centre @hantsbic.bsky.social · 2d

Our Billy found Bartramia pomiformis - a rare and declining bryophyte in Hampshire while surveying a sunken lane in the South Downs near Liss! #HantsPlants @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Sunken lane in Hampshire, UK. The road is narrow - perhaps single track - with tall steep verges that are covered in vegetation and trees. On the edge of the road is a clipboard with white paper and a dark coloured rucksack. The trees and shrubs are fully leaved so it is shaded

Bartramia pomiformis, a bryophyte, on sandy soil with exposed soil around ti. It is green and looks a bit like a mini conifer.

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Hampshire Biodiversity Information Centre @hantsbic.bsky.social · 2d

While walking between the office and St Catherine's Hill last week, our field ecologists Billy and Joel pointed out some of Winchester's pavement plants. This included Fern-grass and Water Bent @bsbibotany.bsky.social #HantsPlants

4 ecologists with rucksacks kneeling on a pavement to look at and photograph two species of plant - Water Bent and Fern-grass. Both are species of grass. The road and pavement are made of bricks, and there are stairs leading up to flats nearby.

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Tristan Norton @trisnorton.bsky.social · 11d

The latest edition of Flora News, the newsletter of the Hampshire Flora Group, is now available for FREE.

As packed with botanical interest as Hampshire is packed with amazing plants! @bsbibotany.bsky.social

hantsplants.uk/floranews.php

Hants Plants: a site for botanists in Hampshire (test)

hantsplants.uk

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Michael Caponi @chinstrap.bsky.social · 11d

Curlew enjoy a bathe followed by breakfast. Woolston Sewage Works 27.09.25 #HantsBirds #HampshireBirding #LowCarbonBirding

A Curlew standing on a gravelly beach beside the water

Curlew having a vigorous clean in the water

Curlew struggling to swallow a large shellfish

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Steve Keen @swaystevek.bsky.social · 10d

Being much pickier re trapping nights atm, last night scoring 58 of 22 in SW Hants.
Two NFY, Black Rustic & Red-line Quaker, with an excellent 8 of the former (2 was my max last year!).
Small Mottled Willow, White-point, Four-sp Footman & 3 L-album the @migrantmothuk.bsky.social offerings

#teammoth

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Dave Wheatley @wheatersdave.bsky.social · 8d

Moth stats Aug 2025 SE Hants, completed whilst baking the Christmas cake. 9 traps 1436 moths 10 NFG. Running year totals 11019 moths, 558 sp, 88 NFG. Beet Moth, Mompha propinquella, Gynnidmorpha vectisana all NFG and the cake #teammoth

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Tristan Norton @trisnorton.bsky.social · 8d

Dense-flowered Fumitory Fumaria densiflora and Common Fumitory Fumaria officinalis in full flow in a delightfully weedy bed at a Winchester allotment site today. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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Tristan Norton @trisnorton.bsky.social · 8d

Field Penny-cress Thlapsi arvense at Highcliffe community allotments in Winchester, Hampshire today. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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Daniel Brown @danjbrown97.bsky.social · 8d

Fly agaric at Millyford Bridge in the New Forest today. #FungiFriends

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Tristan Norton @trisnorton.bsky.social · 8d

What looks like Maple-leaved Goosefoot Chenopodiastrum hybridum, growing in a Winchester allotment today. I've only seen it once before, but this looked unusual. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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Dan Houghton @dan-h-n.bsky.social · 7d

Some larval stuff from Gosport, Hants this afternoon- a Phyllocnistis midrib mine on Willow, mines of Phyllonorycter schreberella and tristrigella and a Grey Dagger larva on Elm. #teammoth

Phyllonorycter schreberella mines on Elm

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Ian Exton @ianexton.bsky.social · 6d

Our first @btobirds.bsky.social Winter Bird Survey at Ludshott Common, Hampshire, today. Don't know if you can hear but there's a Woodlark singing his head off like it's the first day of Spring. Also Siskin, Redpoll, Crossbill, Dartford, Linnet and Stonechat in this one spot.

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Andy Collins @collinsarc.bsky.social · 4d

Was struggling with this but then I realised I had seen it once in the New Forest in the 1990s! Southern Chestnut (I think!) - good for Southampton #teammoth

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Hampshire Biodiversity Information Centre @hantsbic.bsky.social · 6d

Save the date - the 2026 HBIC Forum is on 7th March at Littleton Memorial Hall, near Winchester!

Would you or someone from your group like to come and talk to us or have ideas for a theme? Some excellent examples here: www.youtube.com/channel/UCNl... #Ecology #BiologicalRecording

A group of people sat in a hall listening to a talk with a presentation.

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Hampshire Biodiversity Information Centre @hantsbic.bsky.social · 4d

Welcome to the Hampshire Nature (UK) feed collating wildlife and plant sightings in Hampshire: bsky.app/profile/did:...

Welcome to the Hampshire Nature feed which is for natural history sightings and events/news (bioblitz, talks, walks etc), in Hampshire. The feed picks up tags like #HantsBirds, #HantsPlants, #HantsMoths, and #TeamMoth will work for Hampshire moth-ers. Some key locations should be picked up too, and extra locations or tags can be added. Please let us know if you've got suggestions to improve it 😊
Other feeds which might be of interest:
• #HantsBirds
• Moth feeds - #TeamMoth & #MigrantMothsuk
• UK Wildlife photos
• Birding UK/IRE (#HantsBirds works as do #ukbirding and other regional tags)
• Low Carbon Birding (#LowCarbonBirding)
• UK Patch Birding (e.g. #PWC2025 – patchwork challenge)
• Birds! which collates global sightings & photos
• Birding Gear
• Wildlife ID and info books

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Hampshire Biodiversity Information Centre @hantsbic.bsky.social · 4d

Last week we had an interesting afternoon at St Catherine's Hill SSSI and were joined by @ralphsian.bsky.social! Species noted included Bastard Toadflax, Autumn Gentian, Clustered Bellflower and Red Bartsia #WildflowerHour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Clustered Bellflower - two purple flowers

Red Bartsia - this is a small example with little pink flowers.

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Tristan Norton @trisnorton.bsky.social · 12d

Shiny Glasswort Salicornia emerici, Gutner Point, Hayling Island, Hampshire. Not a lot found today, but to be honest, I could've seen loads 😅. Salicornias are anything but straightforward. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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Dave Wheatley @wheatersdave.bsky.social · 9d

Better numbers last night 133/36 in SE Hants. 2 NFY Orange Sallow and Rhomboid Tortrix (escaped before proper photo), both sp absent last year. 2 L-album, White Point, Turnip, Dewick’s, 2 Blair’s Mocha, 2 Four-spotted Footman, RDP either migrants/locals #migrantmothuk #teammoth

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Tristan Norton @trisnorton.bsky.social · 8d

Some planted but spreading oddities at a Winchester allotment today. A Lycium species, likely L. chinense (Goji), and Reseda odorata.

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 8d

1776: Black snails are more sluggish than in the summer; but in sight all day at this season of the year. Rooks steal wallnuts off the trees. Some wallnut trees naked of leaves. Saw one hornet. When mice eat nuts, they perforate a round hole in the shell: but squirrels split their nuts in halves...

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Dave Wheatley @wheatersdave.bsky.social · 7d

Well almost a first for Hants, the Anarsia has been confirmed as a male lineatella by dissection. The first and only record to date was in 1971, and reared through from an imported Spanish plum. I did bottle it and got my friend Richard to do the gen det work! #teammoth

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