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Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I was watching this wasp get drunk on helleborine orchid nectar for a good ten minutes - such a lil beaut 🥹❤️

Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Just look at this gorgeous lil marsh pea, (Lathyrus palustris), growing in a dune slack! A nationally rare plant of calcareous fens - a habitat that’s been almost entirely lost across Britain. Here, it’s still clinging on 🌱❤️

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Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Beautifullll! I spy common knapweed, cat’s-ear and the devil’s bit scabious is so big now wowow

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Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Ong YAY!!! Did much else take too? 😍🌱🌱

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Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Waking up everyday to this flowery paradise is just amazing. It’s so hard to believe that so many people think that short, constantly mown grass is so great…🥹😍🌱

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Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Last seen at Wybunbury Moss 169 years ago, I was shocked to find this big old patch of marsh valerian (Valeriana dioica) there the other day! A seriously rare beastie in Cheshire too eeeEE 😍🌱

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Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Five years on & my gardens are an absolute paradise - 100s of orchids, 1000s of grasshoppers and so much more! All I did was plant native wildflowers plus mow ot twice a year, removing clippings each time. Low maintenance ✅ Amazing for wildlife ✅ What’s not to love?! 🌱❤️

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Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Exactly this. It’s been v draining to see how WMBC have treated this designated site over the years. They destroyed a significant area of qualifying SAC habitat at W Kirby for amenity beach too. NE not bothered & OEP had said it wouldn’t take action until there was another breach in the legislation

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Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

That’s a breach of the assent notice - no consent is in place for the import of sand. Please please report with evidence to NE, who have been dismal in allowing the clearance to happen in the first instance. When they get back, a complaint to the OEP may be in order!

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Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Near-threatened in Britain (<15 sites), so buzzing to find bird’s-foot sedge (Carex ornithopoda) on this limestone pavement in Cumbria! These pavements take 1000s of years to form as rain cuts deep cracks, creating niches for rare wildlife - this sedge being one of them 😍🌱

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Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Sadly not! Me thinks that recent change to legislation and government ideology has created quite a bit of uncertainty and so less focus on training by and large this year :(

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Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Hi Alex Was this with practical ecology? If so, it may be that we have just today decided that demand was too low and have had to cancel! :(

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Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

They’re small in stature compared to most cultivated plants, while the outer tepals are paler than the trumpet, forward-facing and often a smidgen twisted :)

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Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

A reliable indicator of truly ancient habitats - today marks the first time I’ve ever seen properly wild daffodils (Narcissus pseudonarcissus subsp pseudonarcissus)! This huge population was in a beautiful riparian ancient woodland in Cheshire and it’s made my whole month! 😍🌱

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Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

What Hoylake has now is a biodiversity hotspot here to stay filled with >250 species of wild plant, Endangered natterjack toads & much so more. Thank you to everyone who has helped fight to keep this special place over these years - I can’t tell you how appreciated you are 🌱❤️

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Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

It’s been one hell of a battle over the past 6 years. We started with Natural England consenting to widespread herbicide use across a SSSI ending in 2019 (left). From there, proposals shifted from removing all vegetated areas, down to 40%, then 10%, then 5%, and finally to this.

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Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

🚨Hoylake beach update🚨 After a LONG six years, we’re finally seeing a light at the end of the tunnel!! An agreement has finally been reached between @NaturalEngland and @WirralCouncil which means around 2% of the 41ha of vegetated foreshore at Hoylake will be cleared.

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Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Meanwhile you’re arguing that restoration of an ancient woodland is something to reconsider.

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Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

There was nothing indecent in what I said. It is lunacy, and the fact that comments consistently ignore objective reality is testament to a lack of education.

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Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

And what exactly is ideological here? It sounds to me as though you’re upset over the openness of WT to discuss an inconvenient truth.

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Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

It sounds to me as though an education is what’s missing from those who work in forestry on this thread. Perhaps you ought to be speaking to them! 😊🌱

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Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

The number of species plantations support is dwarved by the number which are supported by semi-natural habitats. To conclude anything less is only evidence of ignorance in the extreme.

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Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

You can disagree all you like. It doesn’t change the fact that afforestation accounts for 9% blanket bog loss, c20% loss of raised bog, 39% of existing ancient woodland loss (PAWS), the list is endless… These are not only nationally, but frequently globally threatened habitats.

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Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Translation: please don’t communicate objective facts about non-native conifer plantation in case the public realise the invonvenient truth 👏🌱

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Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Thank you @wtscotsocial.bsky.social for educating!! It’s long overdue folks realise the damage non-native conifers do to ancient woods, alongside many of our other globally important habitats. Please ignore the lunacy from the uneducated forester brigade 🌱❤️

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Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

You’re entitled to your wrong opinion. Non-natives objectively support substantially less wildlife (take a gander on the BRC database cor insects and their food plants). Meanwhile, non-native conifers actively chemically modify soils and extirpate species. The world isn’t centred around squirrels.

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Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Probably because it is an industry that continues to decimate some of our most important habitats left in Britain

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Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Really disappointed to see this sort of deeply ignorant commentary from an industry that continues to decimate some of our most important habitats left in Britain TBH

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Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

I believe it does! Not been to see it for a while though

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Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Over 400 acorns sown so far, collected from veteran oaks nearby, with lots more to go! English oak (Quercus robur) supports >2,500 species, making it one of Britain’s most important trees for biodiversity — yet it’s far less common than it should be in Liverpool 🌱❤️

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Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Absolutely the moon! Endangered dyer’s greenweed (Genista tinctoria) typically clings on in scraps of ancient grassland, but today we reintroduced 70+ plants I grew over summer onto this beaut Lancs Wildlife Trust reserve. Huge thanks to Stephen Cartwright & all who helped! 🌱❤️

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Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Absolutely the moon! Endangered dyer’s greenweed (Genista tinctoria) typically clings on in scraps of ancient grassland, but today we reintroduced 70+ plants I grew over summer onto this beaut @Lancswildlife reserve. Huge thanks to Stephen Cartwright & all who helped! 🌱❤️

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Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

A major peat-former on fens and transition mires, bottle sedge (Carex rostrata) was all but extinct in Greater Manchester… Having been growing an absolute tonne of this beaut all summer, today was the day it was planted out in this recovering @Lancswildlife reserve 😍🌱

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Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Beautiful chicken-of-the-woods (Laetiporus sulphureus) on a veteran oak by me in Liverpool today 😍

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Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

First time ever seeing this absolute stunnerrr in Cumbria today - few-flowered sedge (Carex pauciflora)! A specialist of blanket mires and poor fens, this lil beastie can be found at <15 places in England where it’s red-listed Near-Threatened 🌱❤️

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Plantlife @plantlifeuk.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Irreplaceable meadows need protecting📢📢 We wouldn’t let historic buildings like the Houses of Parliament get knocked down and built somewhere else. So why would we let ancient meadows? Join us in asking the government to safeguard these incredible habitats. #IrreplaceableMeadows

Field of yellow wildflowers with green trees in the background under a partly cloudy sky.

Field of wildflowers such as orchids, and buttercups prominent in the foreground, set against lush green foliage and an overcast sky.

Close-up of a Butterfly Orchid with multiple blossoms in a grassy field, set against a blurred background of grass and a partly cloudy blue sky.

Close-up of Cowslip with multiple small blossoms in a grassy field, featuring an insect on one blossom and a blurred background of scattered yellow flowers.

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Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Has anyone else noticed it? After years of waiting, it looks like we’re going to have a mast year with our native oaks!!! I’ll be collecting acorns from veteran and ancient trees around Liverpool later this year for anyone or nurseries who would like some and would like to get in touch 🌱❤️

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Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Spotted the striking (and pungent) bog myrtle (Myrica gale) in a Cumbrian upland fen yesterday. Once common on the Manchester Mosses before industry wiped it out over a century ago, Lancs Wildlife Trust and I have been working to reintroduce it since 2019 😍🌱

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Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Last recorded >150 years ago in 1874, I was absolutely shocked to find oblong-leaved sundew (Drosera intermedia) at Abbots Moss in Cheshire!! Not only is this beastie both rare and red-listed, this will soon probably be the last population in the entire county! 😱🌱❤️

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