Hairy Shield Bug on Comfrey & Mint Leaf Beetles on Water Mint, yesterday Eridge Park SSSI; best ancient pasture woodland & ghyll woodland in Sussex. Most of the estate is private, but two footpaths (High Weald Landscape Trail & Sussex Borders Path) cross the estate. Royal Entomological Society

Some of the amazing ancient trees in the ancient deer park (pasture woodland) of Eridge Park. One of the best examples of an ancient deer park in the country. Pendunculate Oak, Birch, Sweet Chestnut from the High Weald National Landscape Landscape Trail. Woodland Trust🌳

Israel Katz, Netanyahu's Foreign Affairs Minister, calls for "temporary evacuation" of Palestinians in the West Bank- aka Ethnic Cleansing. This should be a major 🚨 klaxon🚨 for the international community, especially those like Keir Starmer & David Lammy who continue to

Q. robur in ghyll wood. Apart from the vertical scar with bryophyte (not yet IDd), there are 4 vertical lichen zones; poss. Lecanactis abietina, Cladonia caespiticia; L. abietina again & Lecanora compallens. Zonated by abiotic factors or inspired by Barnett Newman! The British Lichen Society

When you need to scratch, you need to scratch, whatever you're doing at the time. Fulmar on Westray.

Yellow Seamp Brittlegill, Russula claroflava? Silver Birch, Beech, Sweet Chestnut, woodland on wet heathland. Nr Wych Cross. Ashdown Forest High Weald National Landscape Clare Blencowe

Cladonia foliacea, not C. farinacea. I have dyslexia and lots of scientific names get scrambled in my head, and I retrieve the wrong ones; often with similar sounds. By the way, on looking again, I think P. tenella is P. adscendens- that's an ID mistake!!!

A Garden Tiger, from my moth trap. Such a beautiful moth. Only been trapping for a month. Amazing that so many stunning moths, that I had never seen before, visit my garden. Had 3 Light Emeralds last night. I'm recording using National Moth Recording Scheme. Butterfly Conservation 🦋

Cladonia coniocrea, on Witches Broom (prob. Taphrina betulina), on a Betula pendula, in a wet flush, in Ashdown Forest. C. coniocrea is common in the High Weald National Landscape on dead stumps & the stools of veteran coppiced Castanea sativa; never seen it on Witches Broom before. The British Lichen Society

Very fresh Chicken of the Woods, Laetiporus sulphureus. Cow Wood (Natural England - Sussex and Kent Team SSSI) British Mycological Society NymansNT Handcross.

It's always good to look in hollow stumps in ancient woodland. This stump at Cow Wood, an Natural England - Sussex and Kent Team SSSI north of NymansNT, was full of Beafsteak Fungus. Fistulina hepatica. We're Sussex. British Mycological Society

Distribution of Hymenophyllum tunbrigense: Atlantic fringe of Europe ... Kenya, South Africa, Madagascar, Mauritius. New Zealand, AND Sussex! In our own little nearly temperate rain forest ghyll woods. It's wet, wet, wet in Natural England - Sussex and Kent Team Cow Wood, Handcross today. BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland

Bulgaria inquinans, Black Bulgar, in Cow Wood, NymansNT; a Natural England - Sussex and Kent Team SSSI. Looks like huge apothecia of a lichen without a thallus. But B. inquinans & nearly all lichen mycobionts are Ascomycota, so they have similar reproductive strategies. The British Lichen Society British Mycological Society

The abundance of Lecanactis abietina on Quercus robur (only tested 3, all L. abietina; but some may have been Ioderma subabietinum) in the ancient Cow Wood, Handcross, was amazing. Most oaks had 1 side covered in Lecanactis or Ioderma; "shining" in the overcast day. The British Lichen Society

Stunning, but sadly dying, ancient Beech, Fagus sylvatica, in Cow Wood, Handcoss, West Sussex; covered in Artist's Bracket, Ganoderma applanatum, and Pepper Pot Lichen, Pertusaria pertusa. Woodland Trust🌳 The British Lichen Society Sussex Botanical Recording Society

Very sensible for Marchantia polymorpha to get its brolly out in all the rain today. That is actually a archegoniophore; the outgrowth of a prothallium upon which female archegonia are borne. Handcross, West Sussex, pub car park. BBSBryology

Crows taking the shedding antler velvet to eat Nature doesn’t seem to waste anything 📹 igufoto

Good morning. Someone's switched the sun on. I'm going back to sleep. Flounced Rustic, Luperina testacea. Moth trap. Back garden. Brighton.