Reposted by @anthophiledreams.bsky.socialtaenia @taenia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026larches are absolutely worth fucking my knees up 3609
anthophiledreams.bsky.social @anthophiledreams.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Any editors out there, or botanical academics?! 032
Reposted by @anthophiledreams.bsky.socialBSBI Scotland @bsbiscotland.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Join us for the BSBI's Scotland AGM online - Tuesday 29th September, 7:30pm! #BSBIMembers Find out what has been happening in Scotland, vote for next year's Committee members, and enjoy a talk on Scotland's endemic wildlife from @jameshardingmorris.bsky.social www.tickettailor.com/events/botan... 044
anthophiledreams.bsky.social @anthophiledreams.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Crosbie Church, Ayrshire. #WaxcapWatch. No idea on these ones really. Very changeable. Lovely spot though! 210
anthophiledreams.bsky.social @anthophiledreams.bsky.social · 20/09/2026More attempted #WaxcapWatch Surveys... Stair Church, Ayrshire. I love autumn. Look at that leaf! 010
anthophiledreams.bsky.social @anthophiledreams.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Great Cumbrae. Again! Lion Rock and The Cathedral of The Isles & College of The Holy Spirit (a tiny cathedral!). 18.9.26 020
anthophiledreams.bsky.social @anthophiledreams.bsky.social · 18/09/2026🐈 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...theguardian.comNew cat species identified for first time in more than a century in BoliviaNew species of wild cat was discovered in Bolivia’s Yungas forest and is smaller than the average domestic cat 000
anthophiledreams.bsky.social @anthophiledreams.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Respond to the call to action. Nature IS heritage, and the National Lottery needs to continue to support nature. action.wildlifetrusts.org/page/199433/...action.wildlifetrusts.orgNature could miss out from Lottery funding – have your sayRespond to the call to action to share nature IS heritage and the National Lottery needs to continue to support nature. 000
anthophiledreams.bsky.social @anthophiledreams.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Fancy sharing your botanical skills with others, and assimilating more people into the botanical world?! Resistance is futile! (We'd love you to come and be an Identiplant Tutor - which is an online plant ID course run by the BSBI!) 063
anthophiledreams.bsky.social @anthophiledreams.bsky.social · 12/09/2026A delightful couple of hours spent in my local graveyard today, attempting my first #WaxcapWatch and finding an impressive population of one of my top ten favourite plants, Hare's-foot Clover. Fungi is tricky. 061
anthophiledreams.bsky.social @anthophiledreams.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy play REM, St Luke's, Glasgow 9.9.26 010
Reposted by @anthophiledreams.bsky.socialSarah @sarahfaulkner.bsky.social · 06/09/2026A week late for the #seedheads #wildflowerhour challenge, but I spotted these awesome Agrimony spikes whilst doing my butterfly transect and they are too fab not to share. 😍 How have I not noticed these before?! 🫣 1664
anthophiledreams.bsky.social @anthophiledreams.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Great Cumbrae. Please enjoy these blurry photos :) 6.9.26 020
anthophiledreams.bsky.social @anthophiledreams.bsky.social · 04/09/2026www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s... West Wing fans will appreciate this. Amazing! And disturbing that the Mercator projection makes Britain so huge.theguardian.comUN votes to adopt new world map that shows Africa’s true scaleTogo-sponsored resolution called to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland 000
anthophiledreams.bsky.social @anthophiledreams.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I love that the bumblebees use the dahlias for shelter in strong winds! 040
anthophiledreams.bsky.social @anthophiledreams.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Not so easy to photograph this Speckled Wood. Very flighty! Lovely to see in the garden this morning though. 040
Reposted by @anthophiledreams.bsky.socialBotanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Here's a great opportunity to support Identiplant, our very popular online #WildflowerID course: by becoming an Identiplant tutor! Find out how you can help beginner botanists get started, by attending an online intro session at 7pm on Tuesday 22 Sept: www.tickettailor.com/events/botan... 0167
anthophiledreams.bsky.social @anthophiledreams.bsky.social · 30/08/2026First time properly keying out a rose with the new(ish) BSBI roses handbook. Quite a nice example of Rosa sherardii. Hopefully! 020
anthophiledreams.bsky.social @anthophiledreams.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Got some very tame painted ladies in the garden at the moment. I love their undersides. And that's not something I say often... 040
anthophiledreams.bsky.social @anthophiledreams.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Nice to see one of these while down in the Crispy Cotswolds. 040
anthophiledreams.bsky.social @anthophiledreams.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Church of St John the Baptist, Cirencester 23.8.26 020
anthophiledreams.bsky.social @anthophiledreams.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Cairn Table, Ayrshire 16.8.26 010
anthophiledreams.bsky.social @anthophiledreams.bsky.social · 15/08/2026This little guy paused for a 'wash' whilst helping me with greenhouse duties this morning. I was on watering, he was on pollinating. Thanks buddy. Think he was a Common Carder Bee, but I'm finding bumblebees much harder to learn than I thought I would... 130
anthophiledreams.bsky.social @anthophiledreams.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Cloud watching. Beautiful. 040
anthophiledreams.bsky.social @anthophiledreams.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I love snail trails... Beautiful. 040
anthophiledreams.bsky.social @anthophiledreams.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Mugdock Castle and Craigend Castle 8.8.26 020
Reposted by @anthophiledreams.bsky.socialCornwall Butterfly Conservation @bc-cornwall.bsky.social · 07/08/2026We've been sent this striking photo of an albino Meadow Brown (ab. grisea-argentacea). Seen near Coverack last week by Peter Wood. 📷 Peter Wood 18316
anthophiledreams.bsky.social @anthophiledreams.bsky.social · 04/08/2026New dahlia. Princess Nadine possibly :) 050
anthophiledreams.bsky.social @anthophiledreams.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Auchentiber Moss today with the Ayrshire BSBI group. Ravens, lizard, dragons, bugs and botanists. A lovely day in the sunshine. Love sneezewort. 2.8.26 050
anthophiledreams.bsky.social @anthophiledreams.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Stroll to Snib's Cave. A proliferation of pink-flowered species, ravens, several butterflies (!), the first Cinnabar caterpillars I've seen in years, and a possible mink sighting. 27.7.26 071
anthophiledreams.bsky.social @anthophiledreams.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Love the first visit of the day to the greenhouse. Just for these droplets of condensation that gather on the leaf edges. 020
Reposted by @anthophiledreams.bsky.socialFiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social · 27/07/2026One of my favourite of Laurent Chéhère’s Flying Houses. 0335
Reposted by @anthophiledreams.bsky.socialwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Incoming tides, Stoer 2020 by Beth Robertson Fiddes, contemporary landscape painter whose work concentrates on the Scottish highlands, and Western Isles #WomensArt 246186
Reposted by @anthophiledreams.bsky.socialPeople's Trust for Endangered Species @ptes-org.bsky.social · 18/07/2026This is a silver washed fritillary 😍it's particularly special because it's the valezina form, a rare form of the female #butterfly! Normally it's bright orange! Photographed by Ian Pratt this week at our nature reserve, Briddlesfood Woods, on the Isle of Wight. 0255
Reposted by @anthophiledreams.bsky.socialwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 17/07/2026'Sun salutation class, Galapagos Islands' by Photographer Sue Hollis #womensart #FridayFeeling 5927158
anthophiledreams.bsky.social @anthophiledreams.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Garden :) (I know everyone hates buddleia, but I don't) 020
anthophiledreams.bsky.social @anthophiledreams.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Nice stroll on Arran today. LOTS of orange raspberries... Massive pod of Common Dolphins seen feeding off the ferry on the way home. Lovely. 161
Reposted by @anthophiledreams.bsky.socialBotanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Lovely Ivy-leaved Bellflower: most records are from Wales, SW Ireland & the West Country (where our friend @sylvatica2024.bsky.social 👇is based) but there's a record from N. Scotland! Worth hunting for it, if you're in the right habitat: damp acid grassland/bogs: plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9...plantatlas2020.orgPlantAtlas 0152
anthophiledreams.bsky.social @anthophiledreams.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Zigzag Clover (Trifolium medium). Never really noticed this before! Stunningly vibrant in the drizzle today. 040
anthophiledreams.bsky.social @anthophiledreams.bsky.social · 02/07/2026I stepped in to help with editing this one. I loved it, but I can't really commit to doing it next year. Does anyone else fancy a shot as editor?! bsbi.org/about/people...bsbi.orgScottish Newsletter Editor (and team) 022
Reposted by @anthophiledreams.bsky.socialBSBI Ireland @bsbiireland.bsky.social · 01/07/2026More exciting news! Our 2nd #IrishGrasslandsProject event on 18 July is a walk exploring coastal and wet grassland habitats at the amazing Sheskinmore Nature Reserve in #Donegal, on the #GreatIrishGrasslands trail🌸 Booking (essential!) opens 11 July. More info: www.eventbrite.ie/e/wildflower... 01610
Reposted by @anthophiledreams.bsky.socialDave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 28/06/2026The flowers of Wood Sage look quite attractive close up. Whitsand Bay area, Cornwall today, for #wildflowerhour Teucrium scorodonia 1231
anthophiledreams.bsky.social @anthophiledreams.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Dunure Castle, with Oysterplant and Hare's-foot Clover 28.6.26 030
anthophiledreams.bsky.social @anthophiledreams.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Portencross Castle, and coastal path 27.6.26 040
anthophiledreams.bsky.social @anthophiledreams.bsky.social · 26/06/2026That's a pretty perfect garden strawberry. Satisfying. 040