And a drawing of the spitting spider in action from W S Bristowe's 'The World of Spiders' in the New Naturalist series (1958)
06.03.2026 23:22
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🦇What should you do if you find a bat in need of help?
🏗 Are you working on a building and found bats?
🏠 Want to put up a bat box but don't know where to start?
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Our advice pages cover all the above and more: buff.ly/74fXzfM
07.03.2026 09:19
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Is Iceland getting ready to join the EU?
A new change in Iceland’s government means that joining the EU is back on the cards for Iceland.
"One thing that few people (at least in the UK) have considered is what Iceland joining the EU would mean for EFTA (4 members) and the EEA agreement (3 EFTA members)."
*Everything* you need to know about Iceland's upcoming referendum on EU membership. 👇👇
07.03.2026 07:33
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I thoroughly approve of that!
06.03.2026 22:47
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Great value. Back in the 1980s when I was a student in Aberdeen I saw lots of operas with discounted tickets (£1 in those days).
06.03.2026 22:37
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The fungus among us. iNaturalist tells me this is Chlamydopus meyenianus. It's growing in pure sand.
#BlueSkyArtShow
#Round
#hiking
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06.03.2026 15:06
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Price of first class stamps to rise to £1.80
Royal Mail says the increase reflects the rise in delivery costs, but the move angers consumer groups.
Privatization picking our pockets.
Another Royal Mail price hike: Form 7 April 2026 1st class postage price £1.80, 2nd class 91p.
When privatized in 2013 by Tory/LibDem Govt: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p.
RM doesn't meet letter delivery targets. Fines passed to customers. Execs get bonuses.
06.03.2026 15:27
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Something the Government want you to forget...
19.02.2026 18:25
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Morphological characteristics of Bolbitius corrugatus basidiocarp (holotype).
#NewSpecies!
A newly discovered fungus from #scotland for #FungiFriday:
Bolbitius corrugatus
Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/038B87A3-...
Publication: doi.org/10.11646/phy...
#Phytotaxa #BolbitiusCorrugatus
#FAIRdata
#OA #ecology #nature #wildlife #conservation #fungi #mushrooms #mycology
06.03.2026 09:26
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Small Tortoiseshell (Aglais urticae) on white butterbur this afternoon in The Scottish Wildlife Trusts' Bawsinch and Duddingston Nature Reserve, Edinburgh.
Small Tortoiseshell (Aglais urticae) on white butterbur this afternoon in The Scottish Wildlife Trusts' Bawsinch and Duddingston Nature Reserve, Edinburgh. #Butterflies #Insects #Pollinators #Nature #Photography #Nikon @scotwildlife.bsky.social
06.03.2026 16:23
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#mothfacefriday Yellow Horned, named because it has these erm, yellow horns. Not the most creative bunch the entomologists, especially when it comes to names 🙄
06.03.2026 14:05
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This made me do a quick sum to discover I must be have gone roughly 7,500 days without flying (last flight May 2005).
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A tiny pale grey baby harvestman wandering over some dark soil on a stone. To the top and bottom of the photo are numerous little round harvestman eggs, pale grey in colour.
Close-up of the baby harvestman which has short, pale translucent legs and a slightly darker body with faint grey markings. In the bottom left corner is a cluster of small, round pale eggs.
Close-up of the harvestman eggs which are pale and round. Within several of them you can clearly see the pair of dark eyes of the tiny baby harvestman inside waiting to hatch out. In several you can also just make out the legs wrapped around the body.
Cuteness overload: adorable baby harvestman, newly hatched, alongside a cluster of eggs - the eyes of the babies are clearly visible inside the unhatched eggs and you can just make out the legs. They were found under a stone in my local cemetery. #arachnids #harvestmen
06.03.2026 13:04
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A small yellowish beetle (with a tiny black one on it's back just above it) running about in a white plastic tray. The beetle is rather flattish and has a covering of fine hairs on its wing cases. The pronotum is large with a wavy rear edge. The beetle has quite long antennae and has no eyes.
A really nice find from yesterday. Sieving leaf litter in the Rosary Cemetery in Norwich, I spotted this small (circa 2mm) rather flat and eyeless beetle in my tray. It's Leptinus testaceus and it lives in small mammal nests (mostly Wood Mouse) and is rarely encountered. Very fast moving!
06.03.2026 13:13
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Cartoon by
Jeff Stahler
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05.03.2026 13:38
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The more money Reform Ltd
& Nigel 'Hitler was right' Farage get
from tax-avoiding millionaires
in Thailand, Dubai, Monaco
the less popular they become with
voters who see their pro-superrich
anti-NHS, anti-worker rights,
anti-women policies, and reject their
'on the side of working people' lies
06.03.2026 10:19
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"Traditional, low-intensity land management practices have generated diverse ecosystems for millennia. Today, where locally appropriate, they should be encouraged for the conservation of both biological and cultural diversity."
06.03.2026 10:20
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Circular stone font with dentil course, foliage & 13 arches with carvings of preachers, men fighting & a baptism.
St Mary’s Church, Wansford, Near Peterborough.
Font (c. 1120)
13 arches of carving, including a preacher (evangelist?).
“A quite exceptional piece of carving” - Pevsner. @yalepress.bsky.social
Found at Sibberton & placed on the base of another font in 20th Century.
#FontsOnFriday #Romanesque
06.03.2026 08:16
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The beautiful Slender Speedwell Veronica filiformis scrambling over the graves at St Stephen's, Sparsholt, Hampshire. Speed-you-well seems a perfect floral sentiment. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
05.03.2026 20:49
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