MerielGJones

Ex-university academic. Plants, fungi and the internet ... having a great time in Liverpool

[MerielGJones @MerielGJones]

#WildWebsWednesday Sowthistle with leaf miners eating its leaves into a lacy network. @WebsWild #Wirral #Merseyside

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#WildFlowerHour Ox-eye daisy (llygad-llo mawr, Leucanthemum vulgare) floating over a sea of green grass. #Wirral @wildflower_hour

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#WildWebsWednesday Skipper butterfly on an ox-eye daisy (llygad-llo mawr, Leucanthemum vulgare). Young skippers need to eat grass leaves, seen in background. @WebsWild #Wirral

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#WildFlowerHour Meadow buttercup (blodyn ymenyn, Ranunculus acris) soaking up the sun! #Wirral @wildflower_hour

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#WildWebsWednesday Nettles are not glamorous, indeed are painful to the touch but are home & food for many insects. See the folded- up leaf with someone inside!

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#WildFlowerHour Mouse-ear hawkweed (Clust y llygoden, Pilosella officinarum), common, with solitary flower-head a circle of long flowers, lemon-yellow on top, red stripes below. Leaves with long hairs. @wildflower_hour #Gwynedd #seaside

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#WildFlowerHour White bryony (Bloneg y ddaear, Bryonia dioica) scrambling up fencing with its tendrils into the light. @wildflower_hour #riverdee #AfonDyfrdrwy

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#ButtercupChallenge #WildFlowerHour Water Crowfoot growing in a muddy pond at the side of a track. Amazing sight. Big white & yellow-centered flowers all over the pond. Pond water-crowfoot, Ranunculus peltatus? @wildflower_hour

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#WildWebsWednesday Cute little moth on Lady's Smock. @WebsWild

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#WildFlowerHour #PlantID What is this in a rural #hedgerow? Sort of looks like a raspberry, but big red flowers! Pretty spiky too!! @wildflower_hour #Gwent

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Another cafe opening in #PortSunlight. Cobble and Hay, behind the Gladstone Theatre. Soft launch underway. Open 10 am - 6 pm later in week and at weekends, at the moment. #Wirral #Merseyside @PortSunlight @PSRiverPark

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#CowslipChallenge On rubbish tip now become a public park. A few planted but spreading and moving around enthusiastically. Briallen Fair, Primula veris. @wildflower_hour #Wirral #Merseyside @PSRiverPark

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#TreeFlowers #WildFlowerHour So many trees starting to flower. This ash (onnen, Fraxinus excelsior) looks in good condition, but is only just opening buds. @wildflower_hour #Wirral #Merseyside

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#WildWebsWednesday Bee fly on red dead nettle. Early spring flowers so important for insects. #Wirral @WebsWild

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#SignsofSpring Clump of Winter heliotrope (Alan pêr, Petasites fragrans) advancing along the road verge and now flowering. Scenting the air on still, damp days. #Merseyside #Wirral

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#WildWebsWednesday Rust, probably Puccinia lagenophorae, on groundsel (creulys, Senecio vulgaris). Very conspicuous. Apparently this rust only known in UK since 1961, now common, originated from Australia! #Merseyside #Wirral

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#WildFlowerHour Red dead-nettle (Lamium purpureum, marddanhadlen goch) 'abundant weed', but cheerful spots of pink and red. @wildflower_hour #Wirral #Merseyside

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#WildFlowerHour Speedwells out in force in the sunshine. Green field speedwell (Veronica agrestis) and Common field speedwell (Veronica persica) I think. #Wirral @wildflower_hour

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#WildWebsWednesday Hedge still festooned with ivy berries. Mild weather, bumper year for fruits and seeds, birds have so much wild food now. But if weather becomes worse these berries will be welcomed for hungry birds. @webs_wild #Merseyside

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#WildWebsWednesday Another tree, different species, covered in lichen and algae except for the youngest twigs. @webs_wild