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Douglas B. ~Macrominiverse~ @macrominiverse.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

This #ladybird is associated with deciduous trees, there it feeds on aphids. 🐞:Cream Spot Ladybird 🔬:Calvia quattuordecimguttata 📍:Birmingham UK #macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #ladybug #insect #invertebrate #coleoptera #beetle

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Douglas B. ~Macrominiverse~ @macrominiverse.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Wood Anemone is an #ancientwoodland indicator species here in the #UK The seeds of this plant are rarely fertile, instead spreading #rhizomally, creeping across #woodland floors 🌱:Wood Anemone 🔬:Anemonoides nemorosa 📍:Birmingham UK #nature #wildlife #indicatorspecies #spring #woodanemone

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Douglas B. ~Macrominiverse~ @macrominiverse.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

This #mushroom is known to kick up quite the stink. On damp autumnal days the sulphurous smell of this #fungus means you often smell it before you see it. 🍄:Sulphur Knight 🔬:Tricholoma sulphureum 📍:Dudley, UK #macroaddicts #macro #nature #wildlife #mycology #autumn #fungifriends

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Douglas B. ~Macrominiverse~ @macrominiverse.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

A wonderful emerging Fly Agaric #toadstool This fungus is both Psychoactive 🫨 and Poisonous 💀🤮 so consuming is not recommended. That being said it was historically used in rituals. 🍄:Fly Agaric 🔬:Amanita muscaria 📍:Birmingham UK #macroaddicts #macro #nature #wildlife #fungifriends

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Douglas B. ~Macrominiverse~ @macrominiverse.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I found this Rose Chafer #Beetle while on a trip to #Anglesey back in July. It was clumsily flying around and landed on a busy path in need of rescue. 🪲:Cinnabar Moth 🔬:Cetonia aurata 📍:Birmingham UK #macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #coleoptera #insect #emerald #green

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Douglas B. ~Macrominiverse~ @macrominiverse.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I found a mating pair of #sawflies. As they were predisposed I managed a few shots. These individuals are from one of the several Rhogogaster species found in the #UK 🔬:Rhogogaster Sp. 📍:Birmingham UK #macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #hymenoptera #sawfly

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Douglas B. ~Macrominiverse~ @macrominiverse.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I've been trying to be more #mindful of the little things. I am getting great joy from watching my #wildflower #meadow develop. Here's my two favourite #springtime flowers: Cowslip (Primula veris) & Snake's head fritillary (Fritillaria meleagris) #nature #wildlife #conservation #haymeadow

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Douglas B. ~Macrominiverse~ @macrominiverse.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

These #fungi add a much needed splash of #colour to the #woodland at this time of the year. 🍄:Scarlet/Ruby Elfcup 🔬:Sarcoscypha sp. 📍:Birmingham UK #macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #fungifriends #mushroom #fungus #mycology #elfcup #saprotroph

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Douglas B. ~Macrominiverse~ @macrominiverse.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Been rekindling my love for #bird #photography in the last few weeks and I have always had a soft-spot for this #species 🐦:Nuthatch 🔬:Sitta europaea 📍:Birmingham UK The nuthatch uses mud to shape the entrance to their tree cavity nests. #woodlandbird #woodland #bird #nuthatch #nature #wildlife

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Douglas B. ~Macrominiverse~ @macrominiverse.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Here's a pretty little mushroom I found in my lawn I thought you #fungifriends may like. Not 100% with the I.D. so if you know better let me know! 🍄:Moss Bell 🔬:Galerina hypnorum 📍:Birmingham UK #macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #fungi #mushroom #fungus #mycology

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Douglas B. ~Macrominiverse~ @macrominiverse.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Today I am feeling super proud to have one of my photographs awarded Highly Commended in the @royentsoc.bsky.social photography competition 2024. 🔬: Anoplophora zonatrix 📍:Kerinci Seblat, Indonesia #macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #longhorn #beetle #insectweek #indonesia

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Douglas B. ~Macrominiverse~ @macrominiverse.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I hadn't had the pleasure of finding these suede beauties before. I found this cluster whilst #coppicing an old overstood Hazel stool. 🍄: Spring Hazelcup 🔬: Encoelia furfuracea #macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #fungifriends #fungus #mycology #hazel #cupfungi

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Douglas B. ~Macrominiverse~ @macrominiverse.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Hoverflies are often mistaken for #bees or #wasps, but these #dipterans have no ability to sting you. This is entirely intentional evolutionary trait known as Batesian mimicry. 🔬:Syrphinae sp. 📍: Worcestershire, UK #macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #hoverfly #hoverflies

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Douglas B. ~Macrominiverse~ @macrominiverse.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Some #moths look so #fluffy up close. These 'hairs' are actually modified scales which are individually pigmented aiding #camouflage. 🐛:Silver Y 🔬:Autographa gamma 📍:Birmingham UK #macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #moth #lepidoptera #wildlifephotography #invertebrate

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Douglas B. ~Macrominiverse~ @macrominiverse.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I found this #cricket whilst on a night #trek in a #jungle in #westsumatra, #Indonesia. The dew drops #magnify the striking markings on the wingcase. 🦗:Nisitrus insignis 📍:Kerinci Seblat, #Sumatra #macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #indonesia #kerinciseblat #jungletrek

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Douglas B. ~Macrominiverse~ @macrominiverse.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

I am appreciating the form of #fungi at the moment. This glorious collection were high up, but I couldn't resist the #photo. Can you see the lurking #shroom? 🍄:Oyster 🔬:Pleurotus ostreatus 📍:Birmingham UK #macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #fungifriends #fungus #mushroom

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Douglas B. ~Macrominiverse~ @macrominiverse.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Here's a photo of a cool #fungi for all you #fungifriends. This #mushroom was on the same branch of as one of my previous posts. 🍄:Winter Polypore 🔬:Lentinus brumalis 📍:Birmingham UK #macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #mycology #fungus #mushroom #mushroom

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Douglas B. ~Macrominiverse~ @macrominiverse.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

The #spiral shape is found frequently in #nature and is very pleasing to the eye. This is because they follow the #goldenratio, this formula has informed #art. 🐌:White Lipped Snail 🔬:Cepaea hortensis 📍:Birmingham UK #macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #snail #snails

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Douglas B. ~Macrominiverse~ @macrominiverse.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Wishing you all a happy #NewYear! I'd like to share my favourite #photo of the 2024 season. This #bee was in my #wildflowermeadow make #wildlifegardening your 2024 #resolution. 🐝:Cellophane Bee 🔬:Colletes sp. 📍:Birmingham UK #macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #bees

#alttext A close-up portrait of biscuity ginger coloured bee resting on top of a oxeye daisy one wing sticking out to the right. The foreground has the yellow florets of the daisy coming in and out of focus. Splitting the image in half the white of the flowers petals are in the background out of focus.

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Douglas B. ~Macrominiverse~ @macrominiverse.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Some #weevils are astonishingly #beautiful. I love the #iridescent rainbow colours this particular #weevil has on its #exoskeleton. 🪲:Aspen Leaf Rolling Weevil 🔬:Byctiscus populi 📍: Worcestershire UK #macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #beetle #coleoptera #rainbow #colors

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Douglas B. ~Macrominiverse~ @macrominiverse.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

The term #bug gets banded around colloquially to mean all #insects but to #entomologists the 'true bugs' are members of the order #hemiptera. 🪳:Green Shieldbug 🔬:Palomena prasina 📍:Birmingham UK #macroaddicts #green #macro #invertebrate #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #shieldbug #stinkbug

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Douglas B. ~Macrominiverse~ @macrominiverse.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

#Ragwort (Jacobaea vulgaris) is often over zealously removed despite being a poplar choice for pollinators. It is also essential to one day flying #moth with a striped #caterpillar. 🐛:Cinnabar Moth 🔬:Tyria jacobaeae 📍:Birmingham UK #macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife

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Douglas B. ~Macrominiverse~ @macrominiverse.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Here's a little #bee I found foraging on yarrow earlier this year. 🐝:Blood Bee 🔬:Sphecodes sp. 📍:Birmingham UK #Bees in this genus are known as #cuckoobees, which are brood #parasites. Laying their eggs in other solitary bee nests. #macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife

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Douglas B. ~Macrominiverse~ @macrominiverse.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

This #fungus has massive #genetic plasticy due to its over 23 ,000 mating types. 🍄:Split Gill 🔬:Schizophyllum commune 📍:Birmingham UK Their unusually divided #gills are characteristic. #macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #fungifriends #mycology #fungus #mushroom #fungi

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Douglas B. ~Macrominiverse~ @macrominiverse.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

I sometimes also photograph #birds, here's an Amber Listed Species from the #UK 🐦:Stock Dove 🔬:Columba oenas 📍:Birmingham UK This species nests in cavities within trees. #nature #wildlife #bird #wildlifephotography #woodland #wood #tree #forest #birdphotography #rspb

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Douglas B. ~Macrominiverse~ @macrominiverse.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

What's that? It's #flyfriday? Go on then.. I found this fly sat on my bag whilst on a jungle trek into Kerinci Seblat National Park. 🪰:Phytomia zonata? 📍: #Sumatara, #Indonesia What do you think of it's cool eyes 👀? #macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #diptera #fly #flies

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Douglas B. ~Macrominiverse~ @macrominiverse.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

It's #Winter here in the #UK so with few insects around to photograph I have turned to an emerging passion for the season #fungal #photography 🍄:Winter Polypore 🔬:Lentinus brumalis 📏:Cap ~2.5cm 📍:Birmingham UK #macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #fungifriends #fungi #fungus

#alttext Looking slightly upward at at a hopeful mushroom filling the scene whose base sits within moss. With a slight kink it's fawn coloured felted stem (stipe) travels upwards towards a stark colour change just beneath its cap. The surface changes becoming off-white an dotted with small pores covering the surface the felted fawn cap sits above curved down over and shading it's pores.

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Douglas B. ~Macrominiverse~ @macrominiverse.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Blown away by the response to my last post, I think I have finally found my community in #bluesky I'd like to say hi! I'm Doug, a #nature lover and amateur #wildlifephotographer who loves #macro. I work in #wildlifeconservation in the UK and love #walking and #travel. #newtobluesky #community

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Douglas B. ~Macrominiverse~ @macrominiverse.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Some #mushrooms exude slime, the stipe of this #fungus looks almost glass like. The wet appearance gives this #fungi its common name. 🍄:Dripping Bonnet 🔬:(Roridomyces roridus) 📏:Cap ~8mm 📍:Birmingham, UK #macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #mycology #mushroom #fungifriends

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Douglas B. ~Macrominiverse~ @macrominiverse.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

This #butterfly is near identical to another which shares a similar distribution and habitat, the Essex Skipper. Brown tips on the anttenna separate them. 🐛:Small Skipper 🔬:(Thymelicus sylvestris) 📍:Birmingham UK #macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #butterflies #lepidoptera

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Douglas B. ~Macrominiverse~ @macrominiverse.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I find the social hierarchies of insects fascinating, #ants are a great example of an #superorganism within which each individual has a defined role within the society. Slave-Maker Ant (Formica sanguinea) #macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #hymenoptera #ant #socialinsects

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Douglas B. ~Macrominiverse~ @macrominiverse.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

#Beetles are the most diverse group of insects and of them the #weevils are one of my favourite. Acorn Weevil (Curculio glandium) The elongated snout (rostrum) is used for boring into plant material, females of this species lay their eggs in #acorns. #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife

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Douglas B. ~Macrominiverse~ @macrominiverse.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Another beautiful #fungi for you today, in a less usual colour, blue. Blue Roundhead (Stropharia caerulea) 📍Birmingham, UK #birmingham #macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #fungus #fungifriends #mushroom #mycology #wildlifephotography

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Douglas B. ~Macrominiverse~ @macrominiverse.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

The distinction between a #moth and #butterfly is not as simple as their presence in day or night. Here is a day flying moth: Six-spot Burnet (Zygaena filipendulae) 📍: Dudley, UK 📅: July #macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #lepidoptera #nature #wildlife #moths #westmidlands #moths

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Douglas B. ~Macrominiverse~ @macrominiverse.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

This is one of my favourite photographs of a #lemur from my trip to #Madagascar in 2023. Whilst on a #jungletrek we encountered this sleepy Lemur resting in a hole in the tree. Sportive Lemur (Lepilemur sp.) 📍 #Kirindyforest #Wildlifephotography #nature #wildlife #endemic #primate #jungle

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Douglas B. ~Macrominiverse~ @macrominiverse.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Jumping spiders see the world very differently to us. For starters some have #tetrachromatic vision allowing them to see #UV light. Their large front eyes (AME) have two lenses allowing them to zoom like a telephoto lens. #macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #indonesia #travel

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Douglas B. ~Macrominiverse~ @macrominiverse.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Some #fungi are incredibly tiny requiring keen eyes to spot, this #mushroom has a cap measuring only 3mm 🤯 Holly Parachute (Marasmius hudsonii) 📍 #Birmingham UK The cap and stem are covered in bristly hairs (setae) #macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #fungifriends #mycology

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Douglas B. ~Macrominiverse~ @macrominiverse.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Shiny Woodlouse (Oniscus asellus) #Detritivores play an important role in #ecosystems when it comes to nutrient cycling. Woodlouse are not actually insects as some believe but #isopods an Order of #crustaceans. #woodlouse #isopod #macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife

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Douglas B. ~Macrominiverse~ @macrominiverse.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

#Dipteran Unknown 🪰 This #fly landed on my boot whilst on a boat cruise visiting #tanjungputing #nationalpark in #borneo #indonesia Some dipterans have very cool #patterns in their compound eyes. These #eyes reminds me of #deerfly or #horsefly I.D. welcome #macroaddicts #macro #nature #wildlife

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Douglas B. ~Macrominiverse~ @macrominiverse.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

#Dragonflies and #Damselflies both have incredibly large compound eyes which give them near 360° vision. This combined with their agile #flight means they are effective hunters with ~90% success. 🤯 #odonata #dragonfly #damselfly #macroaddicts #macro #predator #macrophotography #wildlife #nature

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Douglas B. ~Macrominiverse~ @macrominiverse.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

A common phobia is Spiders. For the most part #spiders pose no danger to humans and in fact provide a valuable ecosystem service as #apexpredators they work as pest control. This #jumpingspider ambushes prey, not relying on a web. #macro #spider #macroaddicts #arachnid #oOOo #wildlife #nature

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Douglas B. ~Macrominiverse~ @macrominiverse.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Another in the #wildlifegardening series. These sweet bees nest in my #bee hotel every year. Red #MasonBee 🐝 Osmia bicornis These #bees use mud to 'brick up' their brood cells. #savethebees #macroaddicts #hymenoptera #nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #macro #solitarybee

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Douglas B. ~Macrominiverse~ @macrominiverse.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Whilst in Madagascar I was lucky enough to see this Elephant-eared #Chameleon (Calumma brevicorne). This species is #endemic to #Madagascar 📍:Andasibe Mantadia #reptile #lizard #jungle #wildlife #photography #wildlifephotography #camouflage #endemic #travel #ecotourism #trekking #Africa

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Douglas B. ~Macrominiverse~ @macrominiverse.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I like the effect of the man made surfaces in this photo. I usually shoot in natural settings so the straight lines make a refreshing change. Asian Common Toad 🐸 (Duttaphrynus melanostictus) #toad #amphibian #macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #indonesia #frog #naturephoto

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Douglas B. ~Macrominiverse~ @macrominiverse.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Amethyst Deciever 🍄 (Laccaria amethystina) This fungus is a symbiont that shows a strong preference for growing in symbiosis with Beech. #macroaddicts #macro #photography #purple #woodland #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #fungifriends #fungi #mushroom #symbiotic #fungal

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Douglas B. ~Macrominiverse~ @macrominiverse.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Ladybirds make great subjects for #macrophotography Their brightly coloured wing-cases (elytra) often make them 'pop' from the background. Here's a very common native #ladybird in the #UK, the Seven-spot (Coccinella septempunctata). #macroaddicts #macro #nature #wildlife #ladybug #beetle #red

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Douglas B. ~Macrominiverse~ @macrominiverse.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Gardening for #wildlife is so rewarding, this showed up in my wildflower meadow earlier this year. Species: Black-tailed Aphid Eater (Eupeodes luniger) #macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #conservationgardening #conservation #fly #diptera #mimic #photography #wildlifephotography

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