Great Willowherb, Purple Loosestrife, Reed Canary Grass and Hemp Agrimony. #WetlandPlants softening the edge of an urban Local Nature Reserve boardwalk. #WildflowerHour
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This Hornet Hoverfly a large mimic species buzzed down low to settle on Frogbit for a drink in my garden pond. For scale the kidney shaped Frogbit leaves are at least 20mm across. #InsectThursday
“What’s not to Love?” Quite clearly littering Greggs customers that do not love their environment.
Eurasian Skylark, 16-18cm songbird Europe, Asia and N America NZ, Australia, Hawaii, Vancouver Island brought here in 1900! forage on insects in summer, seeds, grains in winter You will hear them before you see them!
The theme for this week’s #wildflowerhour challenge is wetland plants. So have a mosey in your local marsh, mire, bog, fen and see what you can find! Share your pics this Sunday 8-9pm using #wetlandplants #InternationalBogDay2026
42% of UK garden space has been paved over & that's building urban heat, robbing wildlife of homes + surging runoff into drains, increasing flood risk + sewage discharge. De-pave Your Garden says even just using planting strips on your drive can make a huge difference. share.google/Dkb3FOi35hqp...
How the trend for turning front gardens into driveways is adding to night-time heat
There’s a growing trend to pave over front gardens.
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After clearing a good swathe of Great Willowherb earlier on in the year Common Fleabane, Common Ragwort, Spear Thistle and Hemp Agrimony now have the chance to find themselves #StillFlowering on an otherwise parched Lincolnshire urban nature reserve #WildflowerHour
Still no rain on the horizon in Lincolnshire for #StillFlowering Common Ragwort amongst the sun scorched grass and leaves on urban green space #WildflowerHour
Prepare to be amazed! I'm sure none of my followers throw litter in the sea or on the ground but plenty of people do and that litter can be transport for some creatures. #litter www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2026/07/this...
This tiny bottle cap traveled 1,500 kilometers. It had 307 hitchhikers aboard.
Scientists cracked the case of a single plastic cap using isotope chemistry and ocean current models, revealing how trash is turning into rafts for invasive species.
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A Long Hoverfly with a longish Latin name. Sphaerophoria scripta, feeding on Wood Avens, Geum urbanum in the garden. #WildWebsWednesday
I don’t get to see much heathland in lowland Lincolnshire so it was great to see some Bell Heather in flower during a visit to North Yorkshire this weekend #WildflowerHour
Oh, no #AquaticPlants to be found on this North Yorkshire stretch of the Leeds-Liverpool Canal but this partially submerged Oxeye Daisy is keeping its head well above the tree reflected canopies in the water surrounding it. #WildflowerHour
Powder blue and ink dot smudge. The underwings of Holly Blue on show whilst nectaring the white form of Valerian in the garden. #InsectThursday
A lovely selection of your gorgeous plant photos for tonight's #WildFlowerHour! Can we encourage you to enter your best photos into our Botanical Photographer of the Year competition? Categories, how to enter, past winners etc. are here: bsbi.org/take-part/ac... Check out 👇our 16 fabulous judges!
Botanical Photographer of the Year
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Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI)@bsbibotany.bsky.social · last mo.We're delighted to announce the panel of judges for our Botanical Photographer of the Year competition! Pix 👇of 4 of them: @jillwhitelock.bsky.social @theurbanbirder.bsky.social @markavery.bsky.social & @wildflowerhour.bsky.social founder Isabel Hardman. See the rest: bsbi.org/take-part/ev...
Having looked at this first and foremost through a phone lens, all I can offer is pointy sepals. No hairs and no black dots and if present blurry stem wings so hopefully Square-stalked St John’s wort. #WildflowerID #WildflowerHour
White Bryony clambering up through and eventually around a standard Ceanothus shrub and Verbena bonariensis in the garden #Climbingplants #WildflowerHour
A different shade of blue. Viper’s-bugloss amongst a carpet of Bird’s-foot-trefoil and Lady’s Bedstraw #WildflowerHour
🐉 Dragonfly Week is just one week away! Get ready to celebrate the UK's amazing dragonflies and damselflies with species spotlights, fascinating facts, conservation stories and more. Who's excited for #DragonflyWeek? 💧✨
Tiny, very fast moving and very beautiful this is the Green-eyed Flower Bee Anthophora bimaculata. These can now be seen flying flying on Bovey Heath foraging mainly on Heather and Bramble. Their nest burrows are dug into well trodden footpaths.
My first ever live encounter with a Javelin Wasp scoping out one of my solitary bee hotels in my wildlife garden. This species of wasp featured in the BBC iplayer program “My Garden of a Thousand Bees” belonging to wildlife film-maker Martin Dohrn. Well worth a watch if you have not seen it.
Meadow crane’s-bill and Oxeye Daisy mingling in an urban local nature reserve meadow #WildflowerHour
A Narcissus Bulb Fly that started life as a larval grub chomping its way through a daffodil bulb deep underground to become a bumble bee mimic that feeds on nectar and pollen. One of many Oxeye Daisy #PollinatorPals #WildflowerHour
Farm track refuge. Pineappleweed and Hedgerow Crane’s-Bill avoiding the gigantic tyres of overarching farmland machinery #WildflowerHour
Unexpected Asteracae Movements in the Dark. Some late night Botany with Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark in the grounds of Lincoln Castle, Lincolnshire
It must be extremely irksome to have all this “green” unruly vegetation in an urban green space on the other side of the garden fence. So much so that this resident felt the need to spray a harmless narrow lightly managed, not so unruly “verge” to perhaps stake their “tidy weed free boundary” claim
I have rarely seen Mullein Moth caterpillars on the Mullein plant out in rural Lincolnshire and was unaware that they also fed on garden Buddleia. One of eight caterpillars found on the now sacrificial dwarf Buddleia in the garden. #WildWebsWednesday
