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Graham Featherstone @mothman60.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I'm currently in the Cairngorms where Ramalina fraxinae is common, i think that this is the Lichenicolous fungi : Tremella ramalinae on one of its strap like thalli ??

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Graham Featherstone @mothman60.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Delighted to find my first ever Snakefly here in the Cairngorms ( Atlantoraphidia maculicollis) we think !🙂

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Graham Featherstone @mothman60.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I'm on holiday in the Cairngorms, does anyone know which species of wasp would make these 🤔

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Graham Featherstone @mothman60.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Out and about in local woodland today on the hunt for microfungi .Over the moon to find another Pseudoscorpion but what on earth these two larvae are goodness only knows !😆

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Graham Featherstone @mothman60.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I'm needing assistance on this lichen, found on a stone at the edge of a fresh water lake !VC62 !Any help much appreciated !🙂

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Graham Featherstone @mothman60.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Yet again i have stumbled upon a lovely little critter 😃.Any help of an ID would be great !TIA.

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Graham Featherstone @mothman60.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

This little chap was hiding in a fungi sample that i brought home.What on Earth is it? Anyone able to help 🤔

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Graham Featherstone @mothman60.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Temperature dropped to -7.2 last night and the Esk has a thin coat of ice !Lealholm, VC62 !

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Graham Featherstone @mothman60.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Chaeonothecia ferruginea on an old Oak here in North Yorkshire !🙂

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Graham Featherstone @mothman60.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

A quick wander down by the river produced some nice fungi today !Great start to the year !Scarlet elf cup, Orange peel fungi and Illosporopsis christiansenii !🤗

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Graham Featherstone @mothman60.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Just call me Golden balls !! Amazing slime mould found under a wet log here in VC62 !

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Graham Featherstone @mothman60.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Yep, more Slime moulds.Sorry can't name them !😌

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Graham Featherstone @mothman60.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

In winter i spend a lot of time in the woods turning over pieces of wood/branches, hoping to find Ascos.On christmas eve i found this little beauty.Obsi says its an Epo !Any info would be greatly accepted 😃

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Graham Featherstone @mothman60.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

And finally just for Christmas , mother nature had made a Peltigera wreath for us!🤗

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Graham Featherstone @mothman60.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

There were lots of stunning Cladonia species of course !

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Graham Featherstone @mothman60.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

More lichens from yesterday .NYMNP.

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Graham Featherstone @mothman60.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Yesterday 5 of us intrepid naturalists braved the fog and visited a very remote Larch stand on the edge of the NYMNP to look at the rare lichens there !We weren't disappointed !😃

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Graham Featherstone @mothman60.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

With the fungi season slowly dwindling my attention turns towards lichens.Today i was rewarded with a new one:Coniocarpon cinnabarinum !!On Hazel by a stream side in VC62.Spores averaged 9.6 x 25.6 um !Yes i have purchased a microscope ! No VC62 records 🤔 .

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Graham Featherstone @mothman60.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Out on the moors today looking at Fungi.More examples of Lichenomphalia umbellifera found and possibly Laetisaria lichenicola on Physcia 🤔 .@jennyseawright.

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Graham Featherstone @mothman60.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

How fitting that my Deaths head Hawk moth has emerged on Halloween.🙂

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Graham Featherstone @mothman60.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

I found this wonderful Cladonia on the moor edge here in VC62.Cladonia rangiformis or C rangiferina perhaps 🤔

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Graham Featherstone @mothman60.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

My first ever Pseudoscorpion !OMG what a little beauty, possibly Neobisium carcinoides.Arncliffe woods, VC62 .

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Graham Featherstone @mothman60.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Out on the moors today looking at lichens.Pleased to find Lichenomphalia umbellifera ! @aspenecology.com

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Graham Featherstone @mothman60.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Gotta luv a Weevil.Curculio glandium 😃

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Graham Featherstone @mothman60.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Called in to see a friend today at Ruswarp, near Whitby , VC62.As we walked round her lovely garden we spotted, Western conifer seed bug,Box bug and Hawthorn shieldbug.Also 2 fresh Common blues and 4 Small copper butterflies !

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Graham Featherstone @mothman60.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

This Fistulina hepatica ( Beefsteak fungus) was a tad " overdone" for my liking !😆

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Graham Featherstone @mothman60.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Today i noticed a thallus of Hypogymnia with yellow patches.I presumed a fungal attack, however a friend has suggested Usnic acid leachate 🤔🤔

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Graham Featherstone @mothman60.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Gotta love a Pale tussock catty !🙂

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Graham Featherstone @mothman60.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

After 12mm of rain over the last 2 days, some of the common lichens on the moors look much fresher !Platismatia glauca and Parmelia omphalodes here on a large wooden post !

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Graham Featherstone @mothman60.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Only 11 sp. in the garden last night but one of them was Scarce bordered straw !😃I'm roughly 10miles from the sea and very few records near me !

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Graham Featherstone @mothman60.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

2 Deaths head hawkmoth cattys found in Sleights today, VC62 !Absolute beasts !! @migrantmothuk.bsky.social

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Graham Featherstone @mothman60.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Most of my spare time in summer is concentrated on Moths,when the Moorland species start wandering in to my garden, i get a fungal/lichen yearning!Chevron and Neglected rustic!

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Graham Featherstone @mothman60.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Not often that i see Rhizocarpon geographicum on a ridge tile,whilst slate repairing.Looking very healthy despite baking in the 27 Deg C heat !Unlike me !!🥵

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Graham Featherstone @mothman60.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Square spotted clay in my garden last night, a scarce moth in Yorkshire !

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Graham Featherstone @mothman60.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Agonopterix kaekeritziana from Dalby forest last night was a new one for me !🙂 @damianmoney.bsky.social

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Graham Featherstone @mothman60.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Barred carpet from my Lealholm garden, VC62.A rare moth in Yorkshire now, a small but stable population here in the Esk valley ! @damianmoney.bsky.social

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Graham Featherstone @mothman60.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

4 nice micros from a haul of 125 species of moth from Dalby forest last night.Names on piccys ! @damianmoney.bsky.social

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Graham Featherstone @mothman60.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Eudemis profundana !A scarce micro locally, but a little stunner !

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Graham Featherstone @mothman60.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Great to see roughly a dozen Grayling butterfly, spread out over a large area,at Skinningrove today .Their camouflage is amazing !!

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Graham Featherstone @mothman60.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Discovered another site for Bilberry pug in VC62,Dalby forest.2 taken to light , with Steve Farish. @damianmoney.bsky.social

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Graham Featherstone @mothman60.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Not often i see Nemophora degeerella on my moth sheet !

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Graham Featherstone @mothman60.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Out on the moors today.Cross leaved and Bell heather both in flower.Bog asphodel and first Harebell of Autumn !!😆

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Graham Featherstone @mothman60.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

A good night mothing last night in forestry on the North Yorkshire moors, over 90 sp.Macro highlight was Poplar lutestring ( very rare in Yorkshire) and a Larch ladybird was nice !🙂

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Graham Featherstone @mothman60.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Figure of 80 in my garden last night, a scarce moth here !

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Graham Featherstone @mothman60.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

I recorded over 90 species of moth last night in Dalby forest VC62.Still 16 Deg C at 2am.Apotomis semifasciana was the star find !Also 2 Glow-worms, which was a surprise.

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Graham Featherstone @mothman60.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Delighted to find Clytra quadripunctata near Whitby, VC62.A scarce beetle here and originally discovered by Wendy Holliday at this site last year.

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