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Martine🦋Brennan🍄

@martinebrennan.bsky.social

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Sharing the joy of nature: especially butterflies, moths, hoverflies, garden birds, fungi, wildflowers. Most sightings from Laois, (mid ROI), some in Dublin, Ireland. PhD Food Microbiology UoR #teammoth #wildflowerhour #fungifriday

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Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 16h

Interesting…. 👍

Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 16h

👍 Is that daytime sightings in subway?

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Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 16h

Wow 💚

Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 3d

The Merveille must be the mint choc chip ice cream dessert then!

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Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 3d

Super photo 👏👍

Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 3d

That’s a good one 👏

Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 3d

So good to have some moths again! 17 of 10 spp. in Laois with Green Brindled Crescent x2 and November Moth agg x4 both NFY, and excitingly my 2nd ever Merveille du Jour. Here it is showing its size against Pink-barred Sallow and GBC. #teammoth

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Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 5d

Super photos 👏

Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 7d

Hawthorn Shieldbug on blackberries this evening.

Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 7d

Herald moth on blackberries this evening - I then checked lots more Bramble but didn’t find any more moths! #teammoth

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Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 7d

Narrow-leaved Ragwort / Senecio inaequidens on Dublin quays today. #wildflowerhour #urbanbotany

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Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you 😊

Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 8d

Red-green Carpet moth, seen on the house wall yesterday. This species emerges in Autumn, hibernates as an adult and flies again in Spring. #teammoth

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Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 8d

Bramble flowers yesterday for #wildflowerhour, they were surrounded by blackberries, hips, haws and sloes. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 12d

Fabulous 👏

Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 13d

Many congratulations on 600 🎉

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Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 14d

Thank you Matt 👍😄

Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 14d

Stigmella plagicolella (?) leaf mines on Prunus in the garden for #leafminermonday #teammoth

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Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 14d

Blackening Waxcap / Hygrocybe conica in Ballacolla graveyard for #MushroomMonday . Good to get my Waxcap hunting off to a start! #fungifriends

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Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 14d

Freckled Dapperling seen on a roadside in Abbeyleix for #MushroomMonday #fungifriends

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Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 14d

Thank you 😊

Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 15d

Wild flowers from my walk today in Abbeyleix: Marsh Woundwort, Red Bartsia, Common Vetch and a white Marsh Thistle, plus bonus Traveller’s Joy seedheads. #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 15d

Wildflowers (2) in my meadow this weekend for #wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 15d

Wildflowers (1) in my meadow this weekend for #wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 16d

Very fresh specimen - thanks for sharing 👍