Mark Plant

Plymouth - Cardiff - Nature - Surfing

[Euronews Earth @euronewsgreen]

Meet General Sherman: the largest tree on the planet.

Contrary to popular belief, this giant sequoia isn’t the tallest or the widest tree, but it has the biggest trunk volume on earth.

[Sarah M @sarah_mnstr]

Watching a Leafcutter bee taking his first look at the world never gets old 🥰 #bees

[The Bee Team @beekeepingkids]

They're hatching!!!
😁🐝🥰
#MasonBees #SolitaryBees @EDoorish #BeekeepersHour
@BumblebeeTrust #Bees @CathHodsman

[Chris @NestboxTech]

Last few red mason #bees hanging on, I made this nest box years ago, it's never been used. This year they've filled it with next year's bees and a lovely mosaic of different coloured mud 🤗

[The Wildlife Trusts @WildlifeTrusts]

Swifts, swallows, house martins and sand martins are all summer visitors to the UK.
Read our guide to work out what you might have spotted darting and diving in the sky! 👇☁️ https://t.co/eW9ucomaua

[The Bee Guy @the_beeguy]

If you haven’t got a ‘bee rehydration station’ in your garden/patch… well as the bunny once asked
‘Eh…What’s up doc?’
- go make you one.
It’s all the trend in the best gardens now I’ll have you know.
#bees #water #nature
#care #doit #gardens

[BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland @BSBIbotany]

Nice find by @berwickshire81!
Do you have Field Madder growing near you?
Find out by checking the helpful interactive on Field Madder's #PlantAtlas2020 webpage: https://t.co/gvw32sdPZe
Just select 'Zoomable' & click to zoom in.
(Works for 3,494 other wildflower species too!)

[Mark Plant @cooperplant]

@strandlined @theNPMS @BSBIbotany Cardiff has a patch too. Found herb Paris the other day….. yippee.

[Mark Plant @cooperplant]

Solitary mining Bee. Large nest site in Cardiff bay 100+

#cardiffbay #cardiffbees #solitarybee
#miningbee #biodiversity #biodiversityCardiff @SolitaryBeeWeek

[Bees & Wasps of Ireland @BeesOfIreland]

Day 2 of #CouchTo10SpringBees

Just to add, the mites on the bee are harmless and are hitching a ride until she founds a nest at which point they will disembark and keep her new nest clean.

Google 'phoresis' to find out more...

[Mark Plant @cooperplant]

Listen to them #frogs #froggies @froglifers #nature #ponds #wildlife #frogspawn

[Bernoid @bernoid]

Isn’t this #lichen beautiful? Yes, yes it is. Is it Usnea florida? Says it’s near threatened in Britain. @BLSlichens #lichens #dartmoor

[Emily Doorish @EDoorish]

Muddy bee brick containing hairy-footed flower bee babees is officially out - and it’s crazy warm here for February 🐝 ☀️

#solitarybees

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

Mushrooms release millions of microscopic spores into the wind to propagate.

Credit: Villareal C. Jojo

[National Trust Dartmoor @DartmoorNT]

Winter is a great time to get a better look at the weird and wonderful #lichens that grow on trees all over #Dartmoor.

Take care not to disturb as they only grow between 0.5 and 8mm a year. These have been around for a few decades at least.

📷 Photos thanks to Ranger Lucy

[Wildcare @WildcareUK]

Great Crested Newts and other species will soon migrate to ponds to start breeding. We have everything you'll need, from bottle traps to torches, eDNA and nets.
https://t.co/87p2wsy02p
🦎
#greatcrestednewt #newt #amphibian #herpetology #ukwildlife #ecology #survey #fieldwork

[Stephen Moss @StephenMoss_TV]

Petition: Overturn the decision to allow use of neonicotinoid pesticides on sugar crops - well done @DaveGoulson for launching this! https://t.co/9WDxto3PuW

[Mark Plant @cooperplant]

Petition: Overturn the decision to allow use of neonicotinoid pesticides on sugar crops https://t.co/5ykuIH5tbd

[Bernoid @bernoid]

Mushroom Monday #MushroomMonday #turkeytail #scarletelfcup #fungi

[Butterfly Conservation 🦋 @savebutterflies]

It's been a long month, but February is finally here!

As the days get longer and the flowers return, here are some of the species you could see over the next few weeks in your gardens and local green spaces. 🦋🏡🌼

#SaveButterflies #MothsMatter