Time to repost this. I've already had 4 calls and mails, reporting in total 7 little lives lost. Hedgehogs found dead on the lawn, for no apparent reason. In each case finders had left their compost doorway open so hedgehogs gained access. Please beware. x.com/HedgehogCabin/…

First porcelain fungus of the year! #fungi

Caddisfly eggs

Our featured tour this week is Spring Butterflies of the French Pyrenees and, while butterflies are the main focus, it's impossible to ignore the plethora of other wildlife we encounter - orchids, moths, etc. Here's Small Elephant Hawkmoth on Greater Butterfly Orchid. #Leptember

Please, please be hedgehog aware. If you haven’t done so already please leave a corner of your garden wild & leave out kitten biscuits & water. Hedgehogs are starving & there aren’t enough places for them 😢Region's volunteer hedgehog rescuers 'in crisis' bbc.com/news/articles/…

SO chuffed to find Pseudohydnum gelatinosum - Jelly Tooth!! Not common at all. This is only the third time I’ve found it.

Water drops! #fungi

My eagle-eyed forest school children spotted this today & thanks to following the amazing Bernoid I was able to tell them that I thought they were Caddisfly eggs. They were fascinated as was I, my first time seeing them! 🥰

Despite it not being officially autumn until the 22nd September, it seems the landscape and our hedgehogs feel differently. Already the trees are changing colour and losing their leaves, the air is redolent with the sweet scent of autumnal decay, and I've noticed hedgehogs all

WOW, Waxcap treasure this evening! A surprise find of Blushing Waxcap (Neohygrocybe ovina). Classed as vulnerable on the red list and an indicator of high mycological diversity grasslands. I found 36 fruit bodies!! The gills flush red when bruised hence "Blushing" 😍

A part of natural variation, many of our favourite wildflowers can also be found in white! A little different, the challenge this week is to share any #WhiteForm flowers that you’ve found this year. Share your pics for #WildflowerHour this Sunday 8-9pm!

The teeny mystery bolete I found yesterday has been identified as the Crimson Bolete, Rubinoboletus rubinus. Apparently it’s very rare, vulnerable on the IUCN Red List! A lovely surprise for #FungiFriday & another amazing record for this wonderful old cemetery!!!! 🥰

I’ve been Ghost Orchid-hunting this week with my good pal Dr Richard Bate - spoiler alert, we didn’t find one on this occasion! - but for #FungiFriday, here’s some lovely verdigris Cholociboria-stained wood.

Rebecca Wheeler Ha! Coincidentally I've just watched a video by Wild Food UK explaining the difference between these & the Ruby Bolete... and now I see what Marlow was saying about the decurrent pores... youtube.com/watch?v=uiZvmT…

Rebecca Wheeler Fab aren’t they! a few years back I found these in Sefton Park, Bristol and Westonbirt, three locations, one a day over three consecutive days (sounds like medicine) 😃 when they’re about they’re about

These lovely little beacons are keying out as Entoloma verae described in 2021 and split from the Mouse-pee pinkgill - Entoloma incanum group. Very rare in Britain and globally. To be sequenced soon 🤞🏼#FungiFriday #Fungi #Mycology #Mushrooms

Whiter shades of pale, #WhiteForm’s seen this year for #wildflowerhour. 🔁 from top left, white makes the green stripes pop on this lovely Green-winged Orchid, an Early Purple even more stunning in white, the palest Hedgerow Crane’s-bill & a brilliant white Herb Robert! 🤍

This week's #WildflowerHour challenge is #WhiteForm wildflowers. A chance to share a very special Late Spider Orchid.