The #BigButterflyCount 2023 has officially started! 🦋
Our butterflies and moths need our help more than ever. This is why we are urging everyone to get out for the Count to help us conserve them! 💚
Get involved 👉 https://t.co/mtv6gZ0dPN
#SaveButterflies#MothsMatter
The larvae of the angled sunbeam butterfly have a strange shape. When they get angry or startled, they instantly shoot tentacles from the two protrusions on their back and swing them around.
The mycelium network 🍄
It has been grown in a transparent bowl so we can see the whole organism🤯
The mushrooms you see are just the fruit of what lays underneath and what isn't visible to our eyes🍄
Magic!
#UKFungusDay
Photo by Aimee Cornwell
(insta: peggyfarmandforage)
Today is #NationalPoetryDay, the theme? The Environment💚
To celebrate this day we would like to share a #poem written by @NENorfolkSufflk's very own Fiona Tibbitt, accompanied by a beautiful #illustration created by @Jackapod 💚
So grab a coffee, sit back & be transported🌅
A juvenile Shag (?) joined me for a while to see what it could find in the rock pools. No sound (to cut out the wind noise) but you will have to trust me, it had very 'slappy' feet!
🌱 ■ Natural History GCSE ■ 🌱
Exam board @ocrexams have opened a consultation on a potential Natural History GCSE. A knock out opportunity to introduce more students to the joys of the natural world.
Pls input your views and RT so others can too!
https://t.co/gfRRC6y0n3
@williemackenzie@NMAPlymouth@mcsuk Pretty certain they are squid eggs. I wouldn't like to say which species but they don't look like the common Loligo vulgaris.. Any idea of the size? @SarahMackAttack any good with NE Atlantic species and their egg masses or know who might be?!
There is very little that is as rewarding as helping someone suddenly understand something they did not understand a moment before.
I also very much enjoy when someone else does it to me.
@henwood_barry@RichardComont Thanks Barry! One of her favourite moths, she will be delighted! I'll keep an eye out for some of the adults in the moth trap.
Youngest found this yesterday in some boarder shrubs, Plymouth. Trying to figure out what it might be. It seems to have been 'vacated'. Thinking maybe a moth cocoon? 10mm X 18mm. Thought you may know @henwood_barry@RichardComont? 🐛🦋?
That's a wrap! 19 years at @thembauk comes to an end . One last look at the view before the next chapter begins and I start training as a secondary Biology teacher! 🥲