I’m very excited: Silent Earth is published today! Everyone can get involved in saving our insects – find out how inside! #BanUrbanPesticides #SilentEarth

Not so many weeks away...

Blue opal with dendrites from Peru

Starling moon. 🐦

Wordle 214 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Have you signed up for this weekends #BigGardenBirdWatch yet?😀 If you're in the UK, please take part, it's essential in determining population trends & finding out which birds need help.🙏 You can sign up here (It's free!) rspb.org.uk/get-involved/a… Will you see any of these?🐦

Gold brooch with garnets, Merovingian or Lombardic, 6th-7th century AD from The British Museum. Source: britishmuseum.org.

Hairy-footed Flower #bees (Anthophora plumipes) will soon be out and about. The ginger coloured males emerge first, followed a week or so later by the all-black females. They have a penchant for lungwort, dwarf comfrey, red dead nettle & wallflowers, so keep your eyes peeled!

I now get my oat milk delivered by the milk float, in glass bottles. No cows were kicked in producing it. And its environmental impact is MUCH smaller than dairy's.

Blimey, mammatus clouds in Scotland. These are formed by down drafts at the base of large anvil-shaped storm clouds and sometimes precede tornadoes. Easy to see why they have this name.

Act now or never for a liveable climate createsend.com/t/j-3ECF51BF4D…

Seeing the interview in its entirety is sickening, but at the same time the bullying & patronising nature of it is getting plenty of coverage for what is the most crucial time for our future existence on this planet. Only one person came out of this well & that’s Miranda Whelehan

Necklace made of silver and gold, set with blister pearls, diamond sparks and a demantoid garnet for the eye, with three pendent pearls, designed by Charles Robert Ashbee; made by the Guild of Handicraft Ltd. at Essex House, London, 1901-02. Victoria & Albert Museum.

Statue of palaeontologist Mary Anning by artist Denise Dutton unveiled in Dorset, UK. Anning's 19thc discoveries helped shape the science. The statue was a result of a 5 year campaign by 15 yr old Evie Squire. Anning's life was recently covered in the film 'Ammonite'

An extraordinary Bronze Age gold ‘hat’ from Avanton, France. One of four cone-shaped objects from ancient Europe interpreted as hats. Hammered gold decorated with solar motifs and a ‘sun-like starburst’ about 3,500 years ago. 📷: © Alison Fisk #TheWorldofStonehenge #Archaeology

"Horizons were misty, the sun cold with blue sky above, the north wind light. Herring gulls in snow were calm as camels in the desert. Goldfinches...fluttered & hovered over thistle-heads...Their calls chipped at the frosty air." JA Baker, The Peregrine (1967), January entry

Dartmoor national park to pay landowners to allow wild camping | Access to green space | The Guardian theguardian.com/environment/20…

For #MosaicMonday a glimpse into Hisham’s palace in the West Bank city of Jericho with it's marvellous early islamic mosaics: 38 intricate panels depict geometric and floral patterns as well as a 'tree of life'. Dating 8th century AD. Photo: m.facebook.com/WeDigHeritage/…

An embroidered folk artform known as Temari, meaning ‘hand ball’ and given as special gifts in Japan, created with many different complex and colourful designs #WomensArt