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Gentleman Scientist. Ancora imparo.
Trustee of NatureSpot: https://www.naturespot.org
Secretary, Leicestershire & Rutland Entomological Society: https://leicestershirerutlandentsoc.blogspot.com
#Arachnids #Bugs #Environment #Hemiptera #Leicester
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Learn to spot and identify lichens in your local landscape!

Lichens of Britain & Ireland offers practical field tips, vivid images, and habitat insights.

Perfect for nature lovers and budding lichenologists. Pre-order now!
November 25, 2025 at 7:07 PM
ajcann.bsky.social
Woo hoo! Winter Moth, Operophtera brumata.
Never had one of these in the garden before.

#VC55Moths #VC55 #TeamMoth #Moths
Winter Moth, Operophtera brumata
November 25, 2025 at 6:28 PM
ajcann.bsky.social
#Arachnids #Opiliones
sharkeee.bsky.social Shane @sharkeee.bsky.social · 2d
A touch dry, but tonight we'll be searching the mossy trees for aboreal Opiliones like these 'amorous', Ramosus sp.
If you find these creatures fascinating, consider joining @megabunus.bsky.social et al, in a webinar on the 30th dec and learn more.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/arboreal-h...
November 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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#Arachnids #Opiliones
vannabartlett.bsky.social Vanna Bartlett @vannabartlett.bsky.social · 2d
A little saunter down to Colney church on the edge of Norwich with @jeremybartlett.bsky.social today led to the discovery of a Dicranopalpus larvatus harvestman. The only other site for this species in Norfolk is at Earlham Cemetery in Norwich. Good to finally get another site for them.
A flint built, round tower church with a slate roof in sunlight with blue sky behind and long dark shadows. A harvestman sitting on a whitish stone in bright sunlight. The harvestman has long dark grey legs that are hunched up around it. Its body is white with a dark patch around the dark eyes and a dark patch at the rear of the abdomen. A harvestman sitting on a whitish stone. The harvestman has long dark grey legs that are pulled up around it. Its body is white with a dark patch around the dark eyes and a dark patch at the rear of the abdomen. It has forked pedipalps held up in front of it. Close up of a harvestman sitting on a whitish stone. The harvestman has long dark grey legs that are pulled up around it. Its body is white with a dark patch around the dark eyes and a dark patch at the rear of the abdomen. It has forked pedipalps held up in front of it.
November 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
ajcann.bsky.social
Bloody #Ascomytetes! These are not the #Myxogastria you're looking for :-)

Ruzenia spermoides.

#fungifriends #fungi #mycology #microscopy #macrophotography #macro #OMSystem
Ruzenia spermoides Ruzenia spermoides spores.
November 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Slime mold, Arcyria incarnata.

Arcyria incarnata Cribsheet: www.naturespot.org/sites/defaul...

#slimemoulds #slimemolds #Myxogastria #Amoebozoa #macrophotography #macro #OMSystem
Arcyria incarnata Arcyria incarnata - empty cups Arcyria incarnata - spores & capillitium
November 22, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Slime mold, Didymium squamulosum.

Didymium squamulosum cribsheet: www.naturespot.org/sites/defaul...

#slimemoulds #slimemolds #Myxogastria #Amoebozoa #macrophotography #macro #OMSystem
Slime mold, Didymium squamulosum. Slime mold, Didymium squamulosum, with pencil tip for scale. Didymium squamulosum - stellate CaCO3 crystals in peridium
November 21, 2025 at 4:08 PM
ajcann.bsky.social
Can these tiny fungi (less than 1mm) growing on a decaying petiole in Leicestershire be identified? Might they be something like Botrytis?

#fungifriends #fungi #mycology #microscopy
November 21, 2025 at 8:00 AM
ajcann.bsky.social
Mystery slime mold. Badhamia or Physarum. Sessile but I can't find any capillitium - ???

#myxomycetes #slimemold #VC55
November 19, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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#Arachnids #spiders #microscopy
andydouglas1967.bsky.social Andrew Douglas @andydouglas1967.bsky.social · 7d
Micrargus herbigradus palp, taken using the new 'washer on a slide' method - dab of gel, palp, topped up with alcohol. Much clearer, you can't see the gel, and the 'curly appendage' that makes it herbigradus is visible amongst the curls of the embolus. This is slightly enhanced in GIMP.
November 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Potato Leafhopper, Eupteryx aurata.

#Bugs #Hemiptera #VC55 #Cicadellidae #macrophotography #macro #OMSystem
Potato Leafhopper, Eupteryx aurata
November 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Our AIDGAP sale is back! 🌿

Save up to 25% on selected identification guides and atlases — from plant galls to wasps, perfect for autumn and winter learning.

Shop now: buff.ly/IRByfaa
November 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Trioza urticae.

#Bugs #Hemiptera #VC55 #Triozidae #macrophotography #macro #OMSystem
Trioza urticae
November 16, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Robertus lividus.

#Arachnids #Spiders #VC55
Robertus lividus male Robertus lividus male palp
November 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Cupboard Spider, Steatoda grossa.

#Arachnids #Spiders #VC55
Cupboard Spider, Steatoda grossa
November 15, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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#Arachnids #spiders #video
travismcenery.bsky.social Travis McEnery @travismcenery.bsky.social · 11d
I truly enjoyed the collaborative nature of making this video, and you might enjoy that mine is not the only face in it.

This topic is amazing.

youtu.be/_QF6kaOAuYg?...
Spider Cognition: How Tiny Brains Do Mighty Things
YouTube video by Travis McEnery
youtu.be
November 15, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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#VC55 #wet
metoffice.gov.uk Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 11d
Storm Claudia brought lots of rain leading to flooding as well as widespread travel disruption

Top totals include Mount St Bernard Abbey in Leicestershire recording 96 mm since Friday 14th November 0700 am👇
A table of showing the top rainfall totals since Friday 14th November at 0700 - these include Mount St Bernard Abbey, Leicestershire, at 96 mm; Bethesda Quarry, Gwynedd; Trevethin, Gwent, Barbrook, Derbyshire; all at 71mm; Suckley, Worcestershire, at 69 mm; and Thorton, Leicestershire, at 67 mm.
November 15, 2025 at 8:47 AM
ajcann.bsky.social
#Arachnids #spiders
chizz13.bsky.social James Chisnall @chizz13.bsky.social · 11d
This Male Walckenaeria acuminata may be common but its a fantastic looking spider, since getting into Linys this Genus is so fasinating. And its great that the male and female of this species can be Identified with a hand Lens.
@britishspiders.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
ajcann.bsky.social
On this #RainyDay I'm asking - what's somata with you?

#microscopy
Rainbow Chard, Beta vulgaris, epidermis with stomata.
November 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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biologicalrecording.co.uk
Want to see what wildlife gets up to off-camera? 🦡📷

Camera traps offer a non-invasive way to study animals using motion & heat sensors.

Join our Introduction to Camera Trapping webinar with Sammy Mason, @mammalweb.bsky.social, on 22nd Jan 2026.

Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1723620849...
November 14, 2025 at 12:26 PM
ajcann.bsky.social
#bugs #Hemiptera
yvonnecouch.bsky.social yvonnecouch.bsky.social @yvonnecouch.bsky.social · 11d
By checking the antennal colours of the Hairy Shieldbugs Dolycoris baccarum I found at RSPB Rainham Marshes yesterday, I found a Vernal Shieldbug Peribalus strictus. The former has black and white banded antennae, while the latter has obvious orange on antennal segments 1 and 2.
Dolycoris baccarum, with pale tip to scutellum, banded connexivum, and black and white antennae Periballus strictus, with pale tip to scutellum, banded connexivum, but obviously orange antennal segments 1 and 2
November 14, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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ukceh.bsky.social
Rethinking land use and crop choices is vital for resilience, sustainability and future food security 🌾.

Read more about our rice trials: www.ceh.ac.uk/press/rice-t...

#food #farming
Rice takes root in British soil for the first time
Rice is being grown in the UK for the first time. This is part of a wider trial within the AgZero+ project that brings together UKCEH scientists and farmers to grow rice and other food, bioenergy and ...
www.ceh.ac.uk
November 12, 2025 at 4:52 PM
ajcann.bsky.social
Fed up with autumn leaf backgrounds yet? Let's go green.
Nigma walckenaeri.

#Arachnids #Spiders #VC55 #green #macrophotography #macro #OMSystem
Femnale Nigma walckenaeri on a green leaf.
November 12, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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timholtwilson.bsky.social
Can ecological surgery of ant mounds help to restore grassland habitats?
- www.gabrielleflinn.com/post/ecologi...
@ukceh.bsky.social @rspbscotland.bsky.social @nationaltrust.org.uk Funded by John Lewis Partnership Foundation.
My own ant hill work chronicled: storvaxt.blogspot.com/2025/10/enco...
Four people standing around a trailer beside a road on Scottish moorland, with four ant mound blocks of earth to be transported to their new home
November 12, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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stevetypesstuff.bsky.social
It’s no surprise that SUVs (or ‘wankpanzers’) are are a danger to the public.

Next time you are in a car park next to one of those pristine 5L pickups (never been near mud) stand in front of it. In a collision it will hit you from head to pelvis, full blunt force, whole body trauma.
transportenvironment.org T&E @transportenvironment.org · 14d
Leading medical publication the British Medical Journal recognises SUVs as a danger to public health in a new editorial co-authored by T&E’s James Nix: bit.ly/4hVDlBC

Large SUVs are a danger to pedestrians, cyclists & other drivers.

It's time to take action to reduce their presence in urban areas.
November 12, 2025 at 10:52 AM