Whether you're a geological enthusiast, researcher, or just curious about your area, BGS offers a suite of interactive mapping tools that allow you to: 🪨 Explore bedrock and superficial geology 🗺️ Access onshore and marine datasets 🌱 Track soil types and groundwater www.bgs.ac.uk/geological-d...

This September evening in the Adur Valley, Sussex. Sound on for geese.

On the cover of September's Field Mycology: a Violet Coral fungus growing in old pasture at Hardcastle Crags, West Yorkshire. Read online to find out how the #WaxcapWatch survey has expanded our knowledge of Violet Coral distribution. 👉 fieldmycology.org/index.php/jo... @plantlifeuk.bsky.social

The September issue of Field Mycology is out now! ▶️ doi.org/10.63482/a2p... The editorial finds me pondering phoenicoid fungi - and wondering what the fungi of fire sites could tell us about nature's capacity to recover.

Over the past decade, a toxic fungus that destroys cheese rinds has been popping up in cheese caves throughout New England. In a new paper from my lab, we tried to better understand this emerging threat to New England's artisan cheese industry. doi.org/10.1128/aem....

A set of Sussex Bird Reports since 1968 is available at no cost. Let me know if you would like to have them. @sussexornitholo.bsky.social

'Japanese Lanterns.' (1930) During the interwar years, Eric Slater borrowed motifs from the Ukiyo-e masters of woodblock printing Hokusai and Hiroshige, and finessed them for his own means; the final flowering of a tradition of British printmaking until a revival in the 1980s.

Hips, haws, nuts and berries! It’s starting to look a bit autumnal out there! So this week’s challenge is #fruits! Share your finds of wild & naturalised fruits for #wildflowerhour this Sunday 8-9pm. Happy fruit hunting! ☺️🍒

Autumn is just around the corner and now that it's finally rained, so are the mushrooms. I've added 'So Mushroom' card sets & prints to my shop. CARPE FUNGUM! 🍄 www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Bern...

Blackberries painted with blackberries.

Four-spotted Footman moths Lithosia quadra caught at light during the Life on the Edge South Devon National Landscape moth event at Mothecombe, Devon yesterday

In the July issue of #FieldMycology, Harry C. Evans looks back at more than two centuries of records of entomopathogenic fungi in the British Isles and asks what we might be missing. Read the article, online and open access: fieldmycology.org/index.php/jo... #Mycology #Fungi #Insects #Biodiversity

6th August 2026 Tonight's walk home.

Out now: Field Mycology July 2026.

Latest issue of Field Mycology is out: ▶️ fieldmycology.org/index.php/jo... A fine array of fascinating funguses. "Not enough toadstools", according to one reviewer. I say, let all the fungi have their turn! (Happy to receive submissions of toadstool-based articles for next issue.)

Have you bought your moth stamps yet? Moths Stamps | Discover the Hidden Beauty of Britain's Moths | Royal Mail share.google/v82c8Gie8DqQ...

Just arrived from @summerfieldbooks.com: "Fungi of Temperate Europe: Keys to the Basidiomycotes." Looks good but we now need some rain, so I can try it out. (I may have a long wait...) #MycoBookClub #Fungi #FungiFriends

Tabulae phytographicae, Turici, Impensis J.H. Fuessli, 1795-1804. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58015297 (source: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58015297) #nature #illustration #art

Featured Book: Pioneering Women in Plant Pathology 👇🏼 kamounlab.medium.com/featured-boo...

Featured Book: Pioneering Women in Plant Pathology

In this video, Sophien Kamoun briefly introduces the inspiring book “Pioneering Women in Plant Pathology”, published by the American…

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Help please. Does anyone know what this is floating on a Sussex pond amongst Frogbit.

A page with engraved fungi & plant illustrations colored by hand from my copy of “Termini botanici Iconibus Illustrati : oder, Botanische Kunstsprache durch Abbildungen erläutert”, by German botanist Friedrich Gottlob Hayne, published in 1799. 🌱 🍄 🐡 📕

Other work of the Ladybird artists ‘By the Mere’ Artist: CFTunnicliffe

'Boundaries', Maggie Vandewalle, watercolour.

@ilichenmoss2.bsky.social George Greiff in the BBC News headlines on Sunday morning. A fantastic discovery, and hopefully a way to moderate invasive (INNS) Campylopus introflexus (Heath Star Moss). Well deserved recognition for some very interesting bryological work. 🎉🙌 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Killer fungus discovered that destroys UK invasive plant

A newly discovered species raises hope that some native British habitats could be restored.

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Cool breeze atop the South Downs

Seen near Sloane Square: This year's Mushroom book from Taschen. The recipe focus isn't to my taste, but the first half looks interesting and beautifully illustrated. It even has a couple of pages on Otto Marseus van Schrieck, 'The Snuffler'. #MycoBookClub

Have you, like me, spent the last 26 years worrying if the Canadian Potato Museum STILL has the display of various potato diseases with potatoes in little coffins? Stop worrying. I checked today. Still there.

📝We’ve finished the first draft of our Ganoderma lucidum “origin” article: “A historical specimen of False Lingzhi (Ganoderma lucidum) resolves a 245-year-old confusion within an important medicinal mushroom group.” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Woken up but the sound of a Great Spotted Woodpecker drilling into the roof of our bungalow. Reckon I heard one of the tiles crack. Not cool, Woody.

'Beltsville Agricultural Research Centre', Maryland - I was privately commissioned to memorialise the BARC by a past employee after learning it will be shut down by the USDA after over 100 years of research. They wanted to focus of this aerial embroidery to be the field plots... 1/3 (see thread)