Di Napier @larkinlichen.bsky.social · 09/08/2025#butterfly @bcwarwickshire.bsky.social Common Blue or Brown Argus? Markings don’t quite seem to be right for either. 140
Di Napier @larkinlichen.bsky.social · 11/07/2025Hummingbird hawkmoth, Small Copper, Red Admiral and Gatekeeper. Warwickshire garden and field edge #moth #butterfly 070
Di Napier @larkinlichen.bsky.social · 09/07/2025Though I have had a Micarea peliocarpa where I only saw the C red reaction in an apothecial section under the microscope 020
Di Napier @larkinlichen.bsky.social · 09/07/2025Interesting. I’m afraid I can’t add anything useful to Anthony’s points 110
Di Napier @larkinlichen.bsky.social · 08/07/2025Brown Argus in our Warwickshire garden on Bird’s-foot Trefoil 090
Di Napier @larkinlichen.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Interesting. I’ve only seen it non-fertile or with apothecia, but wondering whether yours maybe has pycnidia? Like Cladonia can have apothecia and/or pycnidia. The Italic website says Bunodophorum can have pycnidia, so seems plausible? italic.units.it/index.php?pr...italic.units.itBunodophoron melanocarpum (Sw.) WedinThallus fruticose, shrubby-coralloid, 3-5 cm high, often forming extensive mats; branches highly divided in upper part, markedly flattened, especially towards the base, ending with small, subterete, p... 110
Di Napier @larkinlichen.bsky.social · 01/06/2025I’ve a strong suspicion they are mites rather than slime mould. Mites like that (oribatid mites) are very common under or amongst lichen. I have seen quite a range of slime moulds (including Trichia), but none anything much like that. I think I can just about see tiny legs. 220
Di Napier @larkinlichen.bsky.social · 29/05/2025The soredia gave a faint pinkish reaction to K (not really ‘dull violet’). 050
Di Napier @larkinlichen.bsky.social · 29/05/2025#lichenGBI Caloplaca teicholyta with apothecia. First time I’ve seen it fertile. On calcareous ironstone, Warwickshire, UK. Used video to catch the red reaction on the apothecial section, as it dissolved out rapidly. The soredia gave a faint pinkish reaction to K (not really ‘dull violet’) > 1264
Reposted by Di NapierThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 24/05/2025Labour blocks proposal for ‘swift bricks’ in all new homestheguardian.comLabour blocks proposal for ‘swift bricks’ in all new homesMPs had previously backed Conservative amendment to ask developers to provide hollow bricks for endangered birds Providing every new home with at least one “swift brick” to help endangered cavity-nesting birds has been rejected by Labour at the committee stage of its increasingly controversial planning bill. The amendment to the bill to ask every developer to provide a £35 hollow brick for swifts, house martins, sparrows and starlings, which was tabled by Labour MP Barry Gardiner, has been rejected by the Labour-dominated committee. Continue reading... 298343
Reposted by Di NapierKiera Chapman @kierachapman.bsky.social · 24/05/2025So Labour say they won't install swift bricks because they are moving away from specific species mitigations to landscape level ones. But swifts nest IN BUILDINGS. So how is landscape-level compensation supposed to help? Just ecologically illiterate nonsense 🤦♀️ www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comLabour blocks proposal for ‘swift bricks’ in all new homesMPs had previously backed Conservative amendment to ask developers to provide hollow bricks for endangered birds 99644
Reposted by Di NapierGulnara Tagirdzhanova @metalichen.bsky.social · 23/05/2025🌟Call for Papers on #Lichen #symbiosis🌟 Thrilled to be a guest editor for The Lichenologist, together with @veera-t-nogerius.bsky.social, @ioanabrannstrom.bsky.social, and Ellen Cameron. Send us papers on the inner workings of lichens, submission is open till September 2025! tinyurl.com/2w7wwubm 1249
Reposted by Di Napieranntouza.bsky.social @anntouza.bsky.social · 23/05/2025My first post! And my posts are going to be about lichens. Because they are amazing and I love them! This is Dimelaena oreina, moonglow lichen. A tiny sample highly magnified, from Ft Adams, RI 4727
Di Napier @larkinlichen.bsky.social · 23/05/2025That is a fantastic display of slime mould (not a fungus or a lichen). It will likely change colour and texture dramatically. Not sure which one, maybe something like Didymium or Fuligo, or Brefeldia, but the PNW likely has different species to where I am in the UK. 120
Reposted by Di NapierHighlands Rewilding @highlandsrewilding.bsky.social · 23/05/2025🌿 Rainforest in the UK 😮 At the Chelsea Flower Show @RobStoneman, Director of Landscape Recovery at @TheWildlifeTrusts, is championing from the Rainforest Garden, which won silver-gilt. It is a breathtaking exhibit reminding us that rainforests are not just tropical.#ChelseaFlowerShow 124
Di Napier @larkinlichen.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Apothecium, plural apothecia. Like jam tarts. Some lichens have perithecia, which are enclosed. Both are types of lichen fruiting body, that produce the spores 010
Di Napier @larkinlichen.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Agh! Sorry! Not sure I like the name variiformis anyway, it sounds like it has even worse implications than varia. Dastardly things 020
Di Napier @larkinlichen.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Interesting. The habitat description for A. variiformis maybe makes it less likely? (Mostly coastal.) Don’t think it’s a UK species, so I wasn’t aware of it before. But I agree these lirellate things are tough. I have several samples that need reviewing as I couldn’t decide what they were. 210
Di Napier @larkinlichen.bsky.social · 18/05/2025It looks like a lovely soft candlewick blanket. Perhaps Lepra (Pertusaria) corallina? 110
Di Napier @larkinlichen.bsky.social · 17/05/2025Interesting link to article about different perceptions of lichen interactions with building stone 174
Di Napier @larkinlichen.bsky.social · 17/05/2025Not sure about the greenish foliose one, but that bubbling bulgy one peeking in on the left looks like the weird and wonderful Lasallia pustulata 000
Di Napier @larkinlichen.bsky.social · 16/05/2025Wonderful photos. I missed so much when we were there 4 years ago. Spectacular place. 030
Di Napier @larkinlichen.bsky.social · 05/05/2025Ooh! Such lovely little things. Was that today? We saw some on 9th March, though only just opening then. 100
Reposted by Di NapierBotanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 26/03/2025We have 3 fab #WildFlowerID webinars lined up for you this spring. Led by national experts. All absolutely free! 22 Apr: Mulleins with Mike Crewe 7 May: Mints with Ambroise Baker 10 June: Broomrapes with @christhorogood.bsky.social Details & booking links: bsbipublicity.blogspot.com/2025/03/shar... 111345
Reposted by Di NapierMichael Wong @miquai.bsky.social · 29/03/2025I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity. 10934311111999
Di Napier @larkinlichen.bsky.social · 29/03/2025#eclipse projection just now onto paper, using binoculars, cardboard and (a lot of) parcel tape. Quite a fiddle to set up. Warwickshire, UK 071
Di Napier @larkinlichen.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Busy frogs last night. There was only one clump of #frogspawn at 7 pm. Warwickshire 1111
Reposted by Di NapierSean Cooch @waxcapscooch.bsky.social · 12/03/2025wcwd.substack.com/p/its-at-the... - great story, eloquently explained by @graceblakeley.bsky.social Having visited and ‘advised’ on Middlewick it deserves protecting. That means SSSI notification. There is no better legal mechanism to protect wildlife sites.wcwd.substack.com"It's at the heart of the community"How local environmentalists built a winning campaign to save a much-loved nautral space. 0114
Di Napier @larkinlichen.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Seems to be partly a matter of luck, finding basidia on lichenicolous species. I haven’t seen that one, but on Laetisaria, sometimes there are quite a few basidia, but usually it takes several tries and often no success. They are much more delicate than asci, and the basidiospores easily detach. 130
Reposted by Di NapierRoyal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery @rammuseum.bsky.social · 03/03/2025📣ARTIST OPPORTUNITY Open call for artists to apply to make new work for the exhibition Living Labyrinths: Art and Fungi 🍄 We're looking for work that breaks down boundaries + engages with scientific concepts through a lens of critically engaged art. Deadline 28 Apr. Apply: ramm.uk/artist-oppor... 12610
Reposted by Di NapierSeth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 04/03/2025(🧵) How Elon Musk betrayed America: a thread from a Musk biographer and former federal criminal investigator. Please share widely, here and elsewhere. This will be long. Author bio: www.sethabramson.net/bio Latest book: sethabramson.substack.com/p/proof-of-d... 15848502883
Reposted by Di NapierBen Averis @averisben.bsky.social · 04/03/2025This is unbelievably and horribly shocking. 280 million acres = 1.13 million square kilometres, which is: 11.5% of the USA 33% of USA's forest cover 64-91% of USA’s national forest + protected public land area (exact figure depending on how much protected public land is also national forest) 128761
Reposted by Di NapierAlliance for Scotland's Rainforest @asrainforest.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Invitation to tender: Saving Scotland’s Rainforest impact reporting. We are looking for an experienced communications specialist to help us tell the story of the impact of the Saving Scotland’s Rainforest project. Apply now! savingscotlandsrainforest.org.uk/jobs/communi...savingscotlandsrainforest.org.ukCommunications Specialist — Alliance for Scotland’s RainforestInvitation to tender for an exciting project helping us show the impact of our work with Scotland's rainforest. 0229
Reposted by Di NapierPeter Bisset @handle.invalid · 05/03/2025The happy lichenologist at a community event. Photos courtesy of Tina Knowles Photography 0102
Reposted by Di NapierPeter Bisset @handle.invalid · 05/03/2025Even happier at finding something new for me in the Community Orchard, Nectriopsis physiicola 072
Di Napier @larkinlichen.bsky.social · 03/03/2025#lichenGBI For comparison, something similar, but that doesn’t quite fit P. ucrainica, because it’s much too orange (but doesn’t quite fit anything else either, so recorded as P. candelaria s. lat.). From dog-wee zone, low down on calcareous ironstone. Found in 2 sites, same habitat. Warwickshire 010
Di Napier @larkinlichen.bsky.social · 27/02/2025That is Phacothecium varium (in the alt text but missed out from the main text). Lichenicolous on Xanthoria parietina 050
Di Napier @larkinlichen.bsky.social · 27/02/2025#lichenGBI Another #lichenicolous fungus This one is supposedly mostly coastal, but was found 25 miles inland, on Xanthoria parietina, on a branch fallen from an Ash. Midsomer Norton, Somerset. Surprising spores with 3 septa in a black apothecium. britishlichensociety.org.uk/sites/defaul... 2295
Di Napier @larkinlichen.bsky.social · 27/02/2025#lichenGBI Second time I’ve found the #lichenicolous #fungifriends Lichenochora galligena on Physcia adscendens. This time from North Somerset. On a fallen Ash twig in Midsomer Norton. 0211
Di Napier @larkinlichen.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Lovely! Some starting points for possible ids: a Hypogymnia, a Cladonia, Bryum capillare (since renamed) and a Peltigera (dog-lichen) 010
Di Napier @larkinlichen.bsky.social · 26/02/2025britishlichensociety.org.uk/learning/abo...britishlichensociety.org.ukAbout lichens | The British Lichen Society 010