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Went out for a walk today with seeds and fruits in mind for forthcoming #WildflowerHour, but got badly distracted by fungi instead on a beechwood floor. Must do more of these wanders in the days and weeks to come.

A selection of fungi found on a Kentish beechwood floor and margins

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George Tordoff @gmtord.bsky.social · 13h

On 21st September I found some larval spinnings of Tebenna micalis (Beautiful Twitcher) on Fleabane at Pembrey (Carmarthenshire). I collected a few for rearing and over the last few days three of the beautiful little jewel-like adults have emerged. #TeamMoth @migrantmothuk.bsky.social

Tebenna micalis (Beautiful Twitcher) adult reared from larvae found at Pembrey

Tebenna micalis (Beautiful Twitcher) larva in spinning at Pembrey

Tebenna micalis larval spinning on Fleabane (Pulicaria dysenterica) at Pembrey

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Lizzie Harper Illustrator @lizzie-harper.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Had a fabulous day illustrating this Scaberstalk #Bolete species #Leccinum cyanobasaileucum #fungus today,the illustration aims to show the scaly stem and nut Brown cap. The last picture is me chatting with visitors to my stand at #haycastle - and a lovely lot they were, too! #botanicalillustration

Scaberstalk #Bolete species #Leccinum cyanobasaileucum #fungus cut to white abd illustrated in watercoliur, showing the scaly stem and nut Brown cap. #botanicalillustration by Lizzie Harper

Completed illustration of the Scaberstalk #Bolete species #Leccinum cyanobasaileucum #fungus, alongside my watercolour box, brush, and the specimen I worked with. The cut to white and illustrated in watercolour, shows the scaly stem and nut Brown cap. #botanicalillustration by Lizzie Harper

Lizzie Harper chatting at a desk at #fungitown in #hayonwye with her specimen, paintbox, sketchbooks, prints, cup of tea, and Scaberstalk species #Leccinum cyanobasaileucum illustration

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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Despite the lack of rain, I managed to find a few colourful fungi in Bedford Purlieus NNR highlight being the rare webcap Thaxterogaster collocandoides (in the same place as last year when it was confirmed by an expert), Deceptive Knight and Charcoal Burner #fungifriends

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Darren Underwood @dku1000.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Southern Green Shieldbug (Nezara viridula). At least 10 nymphs seen at Clare in West Suffolk (vc26) today. #UKBugs

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Liz Louise @lizlouise.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Some tiny finds on an NSBFG meeting today - Holly Parachute (Marasmius hudsonii), Oak Pin (Cudoniella acicularis), a Bonnet mushroom (Mycena), & the highlight - a Branched Shanklet (Dendrocollybia racemosa) 😍 #Fungi #Mushrooms

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James Emerson @norwichbirder.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The personal highlight of todays @norfolknats.bsky.social fungus foray at Brett's Wood was this Potato Earthball, Scleroderma bovista.

A small brownish earthball fungus that has bruised pink in an area where the outer skin has been rubbed off. Held between a finger and thumb.

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Norfolk & Norwich Naturalists' Society @norfolknats.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Whilst some mycologists were at the NNNS foray today, members of the Norfolk Fungus Study Group were leading the annual foray at the excellent Ted Ellis Reserve at Wheatfen...

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Norfolk & Norwich Naturalists' Society @norfolknats.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Thanks to everyone who came to Brett's Wood today for our fungus foray with Geoffrey Kibby. Despite the dry conditions we found an interesting range of fungi, some of which are pictured here: Clustered Domecap, Weeping Widow, Grey-spotted Amanita and a Fibrecap sp.

A cluster of brown fungi growing amongst grass (Clustered Domecaps).

An underside view of a fungus (Weeping Widow) with dark gills and a wispy edge to the cap.

A Grey-spotted Amanita with a brown cap with grey veil flecks on, growing up amongst leaves.

A dome-shaped Inocybe species with radial lines down the cap, poking up through dry soil.

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Stevie P @stevieparsons.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Dorset fungi finally starting to appear. All these in woodland at Powerstock Common Nature Reserve. 3/10/26 #fungi @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social

Various woodland fungi, including Sulphur Tuft, Hoof fungus, Giant Funnel, Death Cap, False Death Cap, Amethyst Deceiver, Green Elfcup, Bleeding Fairy Helmet, various Russulas and more…

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Vanna Bartlett @vannabartlett.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

An exciting find at Blo' Norton on Thursday, the ground bug Rhyparochromus vulgaris. A relatively recent arrival in the UK. Appears to be the first record for Norfolk although I'm sure someone else will probably have beaten me to it!

A long, oval bug coloured in mottled shades of brown with a large black area at the front of the pronotum, a largely black scutellum and black wing membrane with a small white spot at the appex. There are small white patches on the edges of the pronotum and light patches in other areas. The legs are quite dark except the fore and mid tarsi which are pale orangey-brown. It is quite striking looking. The bug is sitting head uppermost on brown tree bark.

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Vanna Bartlett @vannabartlett.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Nice to see Pterocallis maculata on Alder at Blo' Norton, Norfolk. They were attended by a species of large black ant which didn't take kindly to me holding the leaf to try and get a decent photo (which I failed to do). All credit to Graham Moates for finding these diminutive beauties.

A dark, shiny green leaf with several small aphids clustered along the main leaf veins. The aphids are mostly pale green with darker green mottled patches but a few are more pinkish in colour. They vary quite a bit in size.

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James Emerson @norwichbirder.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A new aphid for me (and my Norwich aphid list) this evening, Capitophorus similis on Butterbur. A fairly distinctive species when found on this host, being pale with a bristly appearance, long, thin siphunculi and a tongue-shaped cauda. #NorwichAphids

Two very pale, bristly aphids along a leaf vein on the underside of a hairy leaf.

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James Emerson @norwichbirder.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Pellitory Beauty, Cosmopterix pulchrimella, is a relatively recent arrival in Norfolk (first seen in 2020) but has spread quite a bit since then - www.norfolkmoths.co.uk/micros.php?b... Despite Pellitory-of-the-wall being common around Norwich, these leaf mines were only the 2nd time I've found it.

A Pellitory-of-the-wall plant, upright stems with dark green leaves and knots of flowers along the stems. A few of the leaves have pale brown leaf mines.

A green Pellitoey-of-the-wall leaf with a pale leaf mine along the bottom edge.

A small pale larva with a green central gut line and a dark head, on some plain paper.

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Jeremy Bartlett @jeremybartlett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Wood Bolete, Buchwaldoboletus lignicola. A nice find today at the base of a pine tree in woodland near Swaffham, Norfolk. Associated with the fungus Dyer's Mazegill, Phaeolus schweinitzii, which is parasitic on conifers. #Fungi #FungiFriends

Wood Bolete, Buchwaldoboletus lignicola (front of picture).

At the base of a pine tree with the fungus Dyer's Mazegill, Phaeolus schweinitzii, growing on it (back of picture).

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Andy Salisbury @andyentomologist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Friday, @ledzeppelin.bsky.social le🤘, @verdantbrew.bsky.social 🍻 and one of the most inspirational pieces of ecology recording republished this year by RHS and @cabi-org.bsky.social , it was a privilege to be invited to write a new intro.

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Summerfield Books @summerfieldbooks.com · 02/10/2026

Our friends at UK Fungus Day are running their fab initiative 'Fungi Connect' again this year and they asked us what you need to get started... Want to get involved? Visit the #UKFungusDay website: www.ukfungusday.co.uk/fungiconnect Have fun with your forays folks! 🍄 www.summerfieldbooks.com

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Tegwyn @arachnoteg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Badumna longinqua for today's A-Z. New to the UK and probably spreading through plant trade. Check out your local garden centre, B+Q and especially B+M stores outdoor plant areas. You will likely find the distinctive web before any spider. Visit the BAS on YouTube for more info. #Aractober

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Jeremy Gaskell @jeremygaskell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Shelduck, Grey Heron and Spoonbills shortly after sunset this evening on Breydon Water. Still a small number of Whimbrel about, too.

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I really like this one. There’s all these little tableaux in it, zoom in and have a gad about.

Same demolition, same flyover, different folk.

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James Emerson @norwichbirder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

On my way into work today I noticed a cranefly, Tipula confusa, resting on a wall. This is an autumn species (the similar Tipula rufina has a black stripe on the side of the thorax and is more common in spring).

A top-down view of a cranefly with long legs and brown-and-white patterned wings, resting ona grey wall with a metal bar running horizontally across the photo.

A slightly side-on view of a cranefly with long legs and brown-and-white patterned wings, resting ona grey wall with a metal bar running horizontally across the photo.

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Tim Holt-Wilson @timholtwilson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hard and with those structures.

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Kent Field Club @kentfieldclub.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Fungus field meetings now well under way. A few finds from our recent meeting at Pilots Wood & Polhill Bank in the west of the county: Larch Bolete, Suillus grevillei; Magpie Inkcap, Coprinopsis picacea; & caterpillar of Green Silver-lines moth, Pseudoips prasinana. #fungus #fungi #moths #KentNature

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Roger_TL45Y @rogerhorton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Today, the first adult Southern Green Shieldbug, Nezara viridula, in the garden this year, on a Small Teasel seed head. #Hemiptera #TrueBugs #Cambridge

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Tim Holt-Wilson @timholtwilson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Black, sooty-looking patches on Sycamore bark. Zooming down 40x under the microscope I see lineated, bundled structures. I assume a sooty mould fungus, perhaps feeding on honeydew fallout. Any thoughts? @ians4ad.bsky.social @britmycolsoc.org.uk Fumago vagans?

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Jake Dalzell @bitheolaidhe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Doassansiopsis hydrophila on Potamogeton on Monday - this is one of a group of fungi infecting aquatic plants, with large spore balls (~0.2mm) which presumably float to their next host. #FungiFriends #WildPlantDisease

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Norfolk & Norwich Naturalists' Society @norfolknats.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Dates for your diary - the NNNS indoor events programme for winter 2026/27 has now been finalised. These talks, including the photographic group, are open to everyone (free to members, £3 for non-members). Full details of NNNS events will also appear at norfolknaturalists.org.uk/wp/events-pa...

A poster advertising the NNNS winter 2026/27 indoor events programme.

Norfolk & Norwich Naturalists’ Society

Talks programme for winter 2026/27

October 2026
Tuesday 13th – A changing world and changing fungi: Global warming and alien invaders by Geoffrey Kibby
Tuesday 27th – Photographic Group – “Show Your Own”

November 2026
Tuesday 10th – European deserts by Dr Chris Stone
Tuesday 24th – Photographic Group – “A mixed bag” by Tony Howes

December 2026
Tuesday 8th – Looking for the Goshawk by Conor Jameson

January 2027
Tuesday 12th - How what birds eat effects their health and life chances by Vildan Acar
Tuesday 26th – Photographic Group - “Adventures in the Andes” by Hans Watson

February 2027
Tuesday 8th – Highs and lows of a career ecologist by Rob Yaxley
Tuesday 23rd – Photographic Group - "Climate and UK Birding" by David Bryant

March 2027
Tuesday 9th – Photographic Group – “Show your own”
Tuesday 23rd – AGM & Presidential Address by Simon Harrap (title to be confirmed nearer the time).

All welcome - free entry for NNNS members, £3 charge for non-members.
Talks begin at 19:30.
Location: St. Andrew’s Church Hall, 41 Church Lane, Eaton, Norwich, NR4 6NW

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James Emerson @norwichbirder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Another plant fungus noted recently was this on Chenopodium album. I've not figured out what it is yet (Cercospora or Passalora dubia perhaps?)

Underside of a pale-green Fat-hen leaf with a pale brown leaf spot.

A microscope image showing a section through a leaf spot, with lots of thin fungal structures and some larger irregular shapes.

A closer view of the long, thin structures.

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This one is shot looking across the opened heart of a medieval graveyard, towards a building called Gildengate, named after a jousting ground which is nearby.

A single arm ripping at a large brutalist block. Hard silhouette.

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James Emerson @norwichbirder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I've been checking local Hop plants hoping to find mines of Caloptilia fidella, a species spreading in Norfolk. I've not found it yet, but did find some mines of the moth Cosmopterix zieglerella plus the powdery mildew Podosphaera macularis.

A five-lobed green Hop leaf, with a white leaf-mine of the moth Cosmopterix zieglerella.

A closer-up look at the white leaf-mine with brown off-shoots made by the moth Cosmopterix zieglerella.

A small Hop leaf with some pale spots and white powdery mildew.

An image down the microscope of some oval conidia and other structures.

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James Emerson @norwichbirder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Whilst walking into the city today I noticed a Dandelion with swellings in the flower-stem. These galls turned out to be fungal, with the causer presumably Protomyces pachydermus.

A section of green Dandelion flower stalk, showing several swellings, one of which has started turning purple.

A section through one of the galls, showing that there is no cavity inside.

Some round fungal cells alongst the gall structures.

A close-up of some of the round fungal cells.

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James Emerson @norwichbirder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A Twin-spot Centurion, Sargus bipunctatus, found indoors in Norwich yesterday.

A close up of the view of the face of a soldierfly, showing two square white spots on the frons.

A top-down view on a long, thin soldierfly with a metallic green thorax and orange legs.

A side view of a soldierfly on a white background.

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James Emerson @norwichbirder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The eclipse Pintail was present again on the river at Wensum Park in Norwich this morning. There was also a singing Chiffchaff, a Kingfisher and a Canada x Greylag Goose in addition to the usual park species. #NorfolkBirding

An eclipse drake Pintail on the water
With ripples around it.

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Jeremy Bartlett @jeremybartlett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My latest blog post: Warted Amanita, Amanita strobiliformis. A big, chunky and distinctive mushroom, often found quite early in the fungus season. www.jeremybartlett.co.uk/2026/09/30/w... #Fungi #FungiFriends

Warted Amanita, Amanita strobiliformis, on a road verge in Norwich (August 2025).

Warted Amanita, Amanita strobiliformis, a picked specimen showing the stem ring and stout, rooting stem base. From a road verge in Norwich (August 2025).

Warted Amanita, Amanita strobiliformis, on a roadside in a Norfolk beechwood. September 2025.

Measuring the height of a Warted Amanita, Amanita strobiliformis. Earlham Cemetery, Norwich, October 2023.

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Liz Louise @lizlouise.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Birch Webcap (Phlegmacium triumphans) and Birch Bolete (Leccinum scabrum) at Otterhead Lakes, Somerset 🌿🍄‍🟫 #Fungi #Mushrooms

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James Wright @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I realise not everyone can get to my book tour dates, so I will be doing an online launch event on Wednesday 7 October at 7pm (UK time) 🙂 For more info & bookings, please visit: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-buildi...

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Nic Wilson @nicwilson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Planning presents for December? I've got signed & stamped copies of Land Beneath the Waves, one of BBC Wildlife's Best Books of 2025, in hardback & paperback. Ideal for anyone who loves #naturewriting, #landscape, #countrydiary & for those living with #chronicillness @summersdalebooks.bsky.social

The front cover of Land Beneath the Waves with teal waves on a sandy background and a golden red kite at the top.

Copy of Land Beneath the Waves on a rock in front of the blue sea.

A copy of Land Beneath the Waves open at the title page with signature of the author and a golden red kite stamp.

A copy of Land Beneath the Waves under the water in Nic's local chalk stream. It's all a bit wet! (No books were harmed - much - in the making of this image)!!

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Annie Irving @sconzani.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Some nice fungi from today's walk in north Cardiff, around Cefn Onn Park and down to Roath Park Lake: new-to-me Wood cauliflower (Sparassis crispa), an abundance of Porcelain fungus (Oudemansiella mucida), & Shaggy inkcap (Coprinus comatus). #fungi

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Stevie P @stevieparsons.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A fabulous morning fungi foray (finally) and a bewildering array of boletes. There might be more posts when I’ve worked out what they all are 😅 29/9/26 #fungi

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David Stevens 🇺🇦 @davidst999.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Garden lawns still rich with fungi. Parrot Waxcaps, Slimy Waxcaps, White spindles and a Blackening Waxcap. More info in ALT Text. #Fungi #Mushrooms #Mycology #Nature #Photography #Nikon #OMSystem

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Dave Brice @davebriceflies.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Calling ecologists! Diptera backlog? Need ID work done before next season? Planning lots of diptera work next year? We can help! Please contact me for Diptera ID, full species lists and conservation status etc, see dipteraid.co.uk/projects/ Please share Conicera tibialis (Phoridae) for interest.

Conicera tibialis (Phoridae) tiny fly with huge pointed antenna

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The White Falcon @markgolley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Are there any Bristletail experts out there to advise on whether this is Trigoniophthalmus alternatus (Cave Bristletail). Seen in south Devon (& I've read now that it's a hot-spot nationally for the species). Looks good to us but expert help would be welcomed. @linnetincley.bsky.social #bristletail

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Vanna Bartlett @vannabartlett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Finished my Cheiridium museorum drawings and have now made them into Bookmarks. 5 bookmarks per A4 page, just need to get them printed on to some nice thick paper at my local printers. Quite appropriate I think as these pseudoscorpions are commonly called Book Scorpions.

A sheet of approx A4 size paper divided into 5 equal strips by thin black horizontal lines. Each resulting rectangle contains 5 black and white line drawings of a pseudoscorpion in a different position. The pseudoscorpions appear to be wandering off across the page in different directions with their claws held out at different angles, variously facing up, down, left and right.

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Margaux Boeraeve @margauxboeraeve.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Dendrocollybia racemosa, a weird little mushroom that grows on the sporocarps of a.o. Russula nigricans. It's only the third time ever I have found this species since it's pretty rare and rather inconspicuous. 🍄 #FungiFriends

Small mushrooms that are basically just branched stipes without a hat, appearing between litter and moss on the forest floor

Fruiting bodies of Dendrocollybia racemosa with in the background the much larger fruiting body of Russula nigricans

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Butterfly Conservation Norfolk @norfolkbutterflies.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Reports received of Swallowtail caterpillars feeding on Fennel. These are likely to be the Continental Swallowtail (gorganus), not the British one (britannicus) which is found only in the Norfolk Broads. We would be interested to hear of any sightings of the Continental form.#savebutterflies

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Vanna Bartlett @vannabartlett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Work in progress: Cheiridium museorum. I'm working on some pseudoscorpion drawings based on observations of live animals in the field, photographs & reference specimens. The petri dish contains specimens that were found dead in cobwebs in a church & gives an idea of how small these arachnids are.

An A4 size drawing pad with pencil drawings of six pseudoscorpions on the page, four of which have been gone over in black ink. A grey pigment liner pen is at the top of the page and to the left is a Rotring pencil and a pen eraser. A credit card size measure (marked off in millimetres) lays on the bottom left corner of the pad with a round clear plastic petri dish on top of it. The petri dish contains seven tiny brownish specks.

Close up of the sketch pad showing two of the drawings, one in pen, the other in pencil. Also in the photo is the petri dish laying on top of the measure.

Close up of the brownish specks in the petri dish that measure barely over 1 mm. They are dead pseudoscorpions with teardrop shaped bodies and little 'arms' that end in claws. These were all found dead in cobwebs on a window ledge in a church.

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Vanna Bartlett @vannabartlett.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A grand 4 pseud day yesterday with @jeremybartlett.bsky.social on our little 24 mile cycle ride south of Norwich. Cheiridium museorum was found in the 3 churches we visited while Ephippiochthonius tetrachelatus was found at 1 church. 2 other species found at roadside locations. Details in ALT.

Cheiridum museorum: a tiny reddish-brown pseudoscorpion with a roundish, flattened body and fairly slender claws. It is on a pale piece of wood.

Ephippiochthonius tetrachelatus: a brownish coloured pseudoscorpion with long slender claws that are pale reddish colour. It is sitting facing left on a piece of wood covered in bits of cobweb.

Chthonius ischnocheles: a brownish pseudoscorpion with a dark head, large chelicerae and long, slender pale reddish claws. It is sitting head down on a piece of pale grey concrete. Two of these were found under bits of concrete rubble found at the edge of a roadside woodland.

Chernes cimicoides: a dark, reddish-brown pseudoscorpion with large robust claws on a piece of wood. It has a matt/granular appearance. Its body and pedipalps are covered in short, blunt hairs (called setae). This one was found under the loose bark of a large bough that had fallen from a mature roadside Oak tree.

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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Fungal highlight of the week - one of a group of Dewdrop Dapperling found on the edge of a grassy ride through ancient woodland at @wildlifebcn.org Old Sulehay Forest. New to me and seemingly a very local species nationally, with very few records in the Peterborough area #fungifriends #fungi

$A Dewdrop Dapperling Chamaemyces fracidus, a creamy-white mushroom with drops of moisture on the cap, with a membranous ring that's rough-textured below, with more drops of moisture$

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