Here to connect your dendrites with inspiring trees, forests, woodland flora+fauna = #happydendrites! Special interest in #wetwoodland habitats and #amphibians.
One of my favourite species to meet on a wander is the Changing Forget-me-not (Myosotis discolor), a small, friendly looking plant of disturbed ground whose flowers start cream, then go pink before finally turning sky-coloured forget-me-not blue 👌
#SussexNewtsFlash! Pond survey event nr #Laughton#Sussex: David Dewsbury will demonstrate his novel way of #GCN surveying using a box trap. Learn about the Dewsbury Trap & meet the inventor!
Weds 18 May PM- trap demo
Thurs 19 May AM- trap checking
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the elm trees are turning green! but those aren't leaves, they are FRUITS, you were TRICKED
(ok maybe not you personally - if you follow me you probably already know this - but i reckon some people are tricked)
Lovely new leaves on the Railway Poplar #tree in Bell Lane Recreation ground, #Lewes - but best of all is the beautiful bark that looks like patterns of wood carving!
@LewesDC
An oil beetle portrait - these beauties are out on @scillyvineyard in good numbers this year! The adults graze on grass looking very innocuous, but their larvae are rather more neferious, climbing flowers to hitch a lift with solitary bees whereupon they parasitise the nest!
How special is it that we can just be *absorbed* by mosses, lichens, liverworts?! They’re just there. It’s literally free joy. I was looking at Forked Veilwort (Metzgeria furcata) on a tree recently, a liverwort that branches like a snake’s tongue. Worlds within worlds. How lucky