Something for everyone: Lucerne, Medicago sativa sativa, seed pods beginning to coil for Botanists, Oak Lantern, Carcina quercana, for #TeamMoth, …and Firebug, Pyrrhocoris apterus, for hemipterologists! 😉 Today in a field at #BuryStEdmunds #Suffolk #WildWebWednesday

Can’t imagine what this Common Blue butterfly could gain from a Wild Carrot flower head going to seed but it sat happily for over a minute today #BuryStEdmunds #Suffolk #Butterflies #WildWebsWednesday

Failed to photo a Hummingbird Hawk-moth in the garden this morning as camera battery was flat so pleased to catch up with these #butterflies later in the day around #Cambridge: Common Blue, Painted Lady, Small White, Comma.

In @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social Scented Garden today Common Calamint. @bsbibotany.bsky.social #Atlas2020 has it as Clinopodium ascendens (Jord.) Samp. but #Stace4 says 'perhaps better as Clinopodium menthifolium subsp. ascendens (Jord.) Govaerts' as the label says. 😮🤔 Don't think the bees mind. 🐝

Large-flowered Hemp-nettle Galeopsis speciosa in an Aberdeenshire field margin in heavy rain today. Certainly a plant worth getting soaked for. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Fastigiates corner at @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social today: Hornbeam, Beech & Oak; Carpinus betulus ‘Fastigiata’, Fagus sylvatica 'Dawyck', & Quercus robur ‘Fastigiata’, for #ThickTrunkTuesday

Small Toadflax, Chaenorhinum minus. Up to 25cm. Often multi-branched. Glandular hairy. Alternate, strap-shaped leaves up to 25mm long. Solitary flowers on long stalks arising in leaf axils. 2-lipped corolla up to 9mm long with basal spur

Here's the Senecio inaequidens! Also a white-flowered Silene coronaria in second photo above.

Anyone in Norwich UK whose handle I might recognise wanna do a little gardening? My struggle is I'm one guy with an energy limiting condition, but if a bunch of people did a tiny bit like waved a strimmer around for 10 minutes or pulled a dozen weeds, we could get it fixed quick.

The Systematic Beds are putting on a colourful display 🏵 #MondayMood #StopAndSmellTheFlowers

Vibrant green samphire (Salicornia) in vegetated shingle at Shingle Street, coastal Suffolk. Unusual salt-tolerant #plant. And as it's so pretty, this brilliant red peacock #butterfly (Aglais io) spotted nearby. Too bad garden-escape red valerian (Centranthus ruber) is invasive in this rare habitat.

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Help save Oaken Wood

Oaken Wood is under threat. Proposals to allocate Oaken Wood as a hard rock quarrying site will result in the loss of at least 41 hectares of Ancient Woodland.

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We're recruiting a Transect Coordinator for Suffolk. Help support and inspire local Transect Surveyors while gaining experience in monitoring methods and local butterfly populations. More info here - volunteer.butterfly-conservation.org/opportunitie... @bc-suffolk.bsky.social

Transect Coordinator (Suffolk)

Transect Coordinators help to support and promote butterfly transect recording in their area as part of the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (UKBMS). They help us to understand butterfly populations loc...

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During @cnhs1857.bsky.social outing to Darwin Green #Cambridge today I spent a lot of time looking at Wild Carrots, showing people the red dot in the middle and trying to spell Kiefferia pericarpiicola, which, of course, we had not got! #WildflowerHour

First day of August after less than 3mm of rain in July and it seems it's up to Knapweed, Centaurea nigra, and Marjoram, Origanum vulgare, to support butterflies and moths. Thanks to @cambridgeppf.bsky.social. There were hundreds! Wandlebury #Cambridge #WildflowerHour

Large-flowered Hemp-nettle, Galeopsis speciosa, with last of the flowers and now seed heads at RSPB #LakenheathFen #WildflowerHour #Suffok

There's a spot at RSPB #LakenheathFen where you can get near the water in New Fen North and see Fine-leaved Water-dropwort, Oenanthe aquatica, in flower. #WildflowerHour #Suffok

Common Glasswort patiently waiting for the sea to come back. There may be a flower there somewhere. Deben Estuary #Suffolk #WildflowerHour #ByTheSea

Sea Lavender by the tidal River Deben Woodbridge #Suffolk #WildflowerHour #ByTheSea

Always reminds me of the harvest hymn - the Hornèd Poppy doth flower by day. Glaucium flavum on Minsmere beach #Suffolk #WildflowerHour #ByTheSea

Last week this Tree Lupin tried for #WetlandPlants now making a reappearance for #ByTheSea. 😉 Minsmere #Suffolk #WildflowerHour

Cotton Thistle, Onopordum acanthium, during @cnhs1857.bsky.social outing to Darwin Green today, with a view of the pond and members studying its pond weeds, plus a distant view of new housing. #WildflowerHour #Cambridge

Spotted during @cnhs1857.bsky.social outing to Darwin Green today - Painted Lady butterfly on planted Verbena bonariensis. #Butterflies #Cambridge

First things spotted today by @bsbibotany.bsky.social VCR29 during @cnhs1857.bsky.social outing to Darwin Green #Cambridge today were two grasses escaping beds to become #PavementPlants - Pheasant's-tail, Anemanthele lessoniana, and Argentine Needle-grass, Nassella tenuissima.

Lucerne fields at Sparham held 9 Clouded Yellows today along with a Hummingbird Hawk Moth @norfolkbutterflies.bsky.social @norfolknats.bsky.social

An enjoyable visit to Quy Fen yesterday to check out the newly discovered breeding population of Southern Emerald Damselflies (superbly found by Andrew Maddocks), as well as entertaining views of a noisy juvenile Cuckoo being fed by Reed Warblers @cambsbirdclub.bsky.social

After trawling through over 200 of yesterday's mostly blurred photos from Wandlebury #Cambridge I found one that with a bit of cropping and adjustment began to look like a Clouded Yellow in flight! 😉 #Butterflies @cambridgeppf.bsky.social

Food plant of the day at Wandlebury #Cambridge seems to have been Knapweed aka Hardheads for Painted Lady #butterflies and a Hummingbird Hawkmoth. #TeamMoth @cambridgeppf.bsky.social

Seen in a (the?!) Cambridge bookshop just 200m from the Eagle pub where Watson and Crick popped in one night and said they'd 'found the secret of life'. I didn't buy it. 😡🧬😡

What we’ve lost at Dunwich Heath I’ll be furious if the tragedy of Dunwich fails to mark a real inflection point & we as a nation continue on a path to the impoverishment & ultimate destruction of our natural world... eastangliabylines.co.uk/environment/...

What we’ve lost at Dunwich Heath

Dunwich Heath has burned. The wildlife may take decades to recover

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