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Harris Clements @harrisclements.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

The leaf beetle Galerucella (tentatively ID'ed as G. sagittariae). Found on my leg! 🪲🐞 #britishbeetles #chrysomelidae #leafbeetles #essexbeetles #essexwildlife

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Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

If you study plankton, you’ll definitely come across polychaete (bristle worm) larvae, and today is a great day to recognise them, because it’s International Polychaete Day! #marineplankton 🦑 #wormwednesday

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James Emerson @norwichbirder.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Usually its ladybird or hoverfly larvae that are eating the aphids I'm trying to identify, however on the Oak I was looking at today I found the nymph of an ant-mimicking bug, Pilophorus perplexus. I potted it to photograph, and within a few hours it had moulted into an adult!

A small dark bug nymph with a white bar on thw abdomen.

A reddish-orange bug with several white markings.

A reddish-orange bug with several white markings., starting to darken ro brown near the rear.

A mostly dark-brown bug, with some faint white markings on the abdomen.

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Harris Clements @harrisclements.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

A cute little moth from seawall habitat a few weeks back. Could it be Psyche casta? 🦋 #britishmoths #essexmoths #lepidoptera #britishinsects #bagworms

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Harris Clements @harrisclements.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Who's this? 👀 A tiny Apion weevil found on a dock leaf. Probably Apion frumentarium 🪲 🌿 So many different textures on one little beast! #essexwildlife #inverts #britishbeetles #britishweevils #weevils

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Harris Clements @harrisclements.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Common Restharrow (Ononis repens) flowering in abundance at Languard Nature Reserve in #Suffolk. 🌿 🌺 #Fabaceae #wildflowers #britishflora #bsbi

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Harris Clements @harrisclements.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Perhaps a strange post (and of a strange creature indeed!) but here's the saltmarsh-dwelling sea slug Limapontia depressa! 🐌_____ ___ _ (They must add slug emojis.) From a borrow dyke in #Essex. #marinemollusc #mollusc #slugs #inverts

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Harris Clements @harrisclements.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The incredibly vibrant Flame Shield, Pluteus aurantiorugosus. Fruting early despite the heatwave. From #Essex. 🍄🍄‍🟫 #fungi #britishfungi #britishmushrooms #mycology

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Ian Beavis @ianbeavis.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Before Richard South's two volumes on moths in the Wayside & Woodland series finally settled the Macro/Microlepidoptera distinction, the bagworms (Psychidae) were often treated as Macrolepidoptera - as here in Charles Barrett's British Lepidoptera

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Ian Beavis @ianbeavis.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Following up those last 2 reposts about bagworms (Psychidae) with this fine plate from the British Entomological Society's 1978 compendium of 'Illustrated Papers on British Microlepidoptera'.

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Harris Clements @harrisclements.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Dilated Scalewort (Frullania dialata) showing off purple colours today in #Danbiry, Essex. On a fallen ash tree (perhaps as a result of recent winds? #essexwildlife #essexflora #britishflora #brophytes #liverworts #scalewort

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Harris Clements @harrisclements.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Nice Walk-rue Asplenium ruta-muraria in #Maldon from the other week between brickwork. 🌿 #ferns #britishflora #plants #essexflora #essex @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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Harris Clements @harrisclements.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Slightly different from other posts, but here'# an immature land snail Columella edentula found the other day in private woodland. A new species for me! 🐌🌳

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Harris Clements @harrisclements.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Marble Screw-moss (Syntrichia papillosa) growing abundantly on old blackthorn (?) branches. Found in the same location as the last post. 🌱 Close up inspection of the leaves clearly shows the gemmae (which are apparently baby mosses!) on the leaves. @bbsbryology.bsky.social #mosses #bryophytes

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Harris Clements @harrisclements.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Brilliant vibrant Sarcoscypha (Elf Cups) in streamside scrub from the other day. My second time ever seeing them! 🍄‍🟫🍄 @britmycolsoc.org.uk #fungi #mushrooms #toadstools #essexfungi #essexwildlife #ascomycete #chelmsford

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Harris Clements @harrisclements.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

A mosaic of #lichens species on the Seawall at #Maldon Promenade today! 🌱🍄‍🟫 The fiery Rusavskia elegans is in the centre #fungi #essex #wildessex #essexwildlife

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Harris Clements @harrisclements.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

A beautiful mural of lichens and mosses! On some garden ornaments composed of what I believe to be limestone. 🍄🍄‍🟫🌱 A short list of tentatively IDed species includes: Xanthoria parietina, Enchylium tenax, Candelariella medians, Candelariella aurella, Protoparmeliopsis muralis...(continued below...)

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Harris Clements @harrisclements.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

More ferns! Pinnate-leaved plants from the first two images are Black Spleenwort (Asplenium adiantum-nigrum) and the last image shows a little Hart's-tongue fern (Asplenium scolopendrium), all of which are happy with this mild rainy weather we're getting 🌧️☔ #essex #ferns #botany #plants #maldon

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Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Can’t wait for it to be like this. Spring scene with insects, from ‘Brehms Tierleben’ (Leipzig, 1892). Waddleton.b.1.146 @theul.bsky.social

Colour-printed illustration of insects on Willow catkins.

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Ian Beavis @ianbeavis.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Shipworm (see last repost) & other tunnelling molluscs from the Oxford Book of Invertebrates (1971)

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Indikon @indikon.eurosky.social · 25/01/2026

Good morning.

Assorted lichen and moss on a short stick.

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Harris Clements @harrisclements.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

A couple of #bryophytes from back in April 2025 in Epping forest. 🌱🌲 Abundant Sphagnum bogs with lush growth present as well as Mnium hornum (Swan's-neck Thyme-moss) and Lepidozia reptans (Creeping Fingerwort).

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Harris Clements @harrisclements.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Some of my recent photos of some rock-dwelling bryophytes from the grounds of Chelmsford Cathedral: Here is the common Anomalous Bristle-moss, Orthotrichum anomalum, fruiting happily on an old grave, enjoying the calcareous rock it is composed of (assuming limestone?). 🌿🌱

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NullPointer 🍄 @nuiipointer.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

There is a 2 mm long snail in my leaf box. Carychium tridentatum. #snails #invertebrates

A white snail with a horn shaped house walking on a brown leaf.

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Harris Clements @harrisclements.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

A nice mosaic of urban fern growth in #Chelmsford the other day. Asplenium scolopendrium (Harts-tongue Fern), A. trichomanes (Maidenhair Spleenwort) and A. adiantum-nigrum (Black Spleenwort) growingly healthily. 🌿 There were even small plants of the Wall Rue, A. ruta-muraria!

Ferns growing up a wall alongside a drain pipe.

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Harris Clements @harrisclements.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Some small Moss Bells (Galerina), not sure on the species, but seen fruiting on this nice moss/ lichen covered wall in #Maldon. Mortar between bricks possibly lime, as there were a few lichens suggesting a more calcareous environment.

Three Galerina mushrooms frying on a mossy wall.

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Harris Clements @harrisclements.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

🍄‍🟫 Another parasitic fungus that frequents mossy walls (photos from back in December): I've identified this one as Arrhenia retiruga, with the common name Small Moss Oysterling according to #iNaturalist. Seems to like the common cushion moss #Grimmia as a host which it parasites upon.

Arrhenia retiruga growing happily on Grimmia pulvinata on a wall.

A different view of Arrhenia retiruga hrowing happily on a mossy wall.

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Harris Clements @harrisclements.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Whilst looking forward to orchids coming up in warmer weather, I thought I'd post a few orchid species I have spotted in Essex... Here's the fairly common Pyramidal Orchid (Anacamptis pyramidalis) growing in the dry grassland of a sea wall, a habitat it seems to like in this part of the world. 🌱🪻

Pyramidal orchid held between my fingers.

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Harris Clements @harrisclements.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

With many larger plants dormant for the season and the trees leafless I tend to keep an eye out for epiphytic bryophytes in the winter. 🌱 Here is a possible Myriocoleopsis minutissima (Minute Pouncewort) colony on a thick wild rose stem.

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Harris Clements @harrisclements.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

The only fungus I saw the other day during some pretty cold temperatures! 🥶. Identified as an Octospora, probably O. musci-muralis growing with its host the common cushion-forming moss Grimmia pulvinata. 🍄‍🟫 🌿

Growing with Grimmia pulvinata on a bridge. There was an abundance of lichens here!

Hydrated fungus and moss under the microscope.

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Harris Clements @harrisclements.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

A new #Seaweed for: Possible Bostrychia scorpioides (Scorpion-tailed Saltmarsh Weed)?, an odd red algae from the upper saltmarsh in Essex. 🌿🏖️ #BritishSeaweeds #RedAlgae #Rodophyta #Saltmarsh #SouthernEngland #Essex

General form with various green algae and Vaucheria spp. in the upper saltmarsh.

Edges of branches under a stereo microscope, showing distinctive branch ends.

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