Reposted by Rob Winstone蓮猫 Lotuscat @lotuscat.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Flower of akabana (Epilobium pyrricholophum). Japanese name means “red flower,” but the flower is pink. It’s called that because the stem turns red in autumn. Tokikubo, Komoro, Nagano #Plants #Botany ピンクの花のアカバナ。秋に茎が赤くなるのでこの名前。長野県小諸市鴇久保 #植物 1272
Reposted by Rob WinstoneAlasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Hooray! Sweet, beautiful rain! 021
Reposted by Rob WinstoneMoira O'Donnell @naturelark.bsky.social · 13/07/2025An exciting new umbellifer for me today at Strumpshaw Fen - Cowbane, Cicuta virosa. 3546
Reposted by Rob WinstoneEoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 25/06/2025At a time of climate and nature collapse, farmers are paid subsidies to maintain all of Ireland's uplands as ecological deadzones. For what? For the production of wool that's then dumped. You could NOT make it up. www.agriland.ie/farming-news...agriland.ieHill farmers are dumping wool because there is 'no money' for it - cllrFianna Fáil Cllr. Justin Warnock has called for the government to "come up with a plan" for the use of wool. 38457162
Rob Winstone @robwinstone.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Another from Lamplighter’s Marsh. The marsh itself is dominated by sea-couch grass (Elymus arthericus) along with a patch of common reeds. I heard and spotted a reed warbler too but couldn’t snap a shot :/ #Bristol #plants #botanical #wildlife 010
Reposted by Rob WinstoneRebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 23/06/2025This is the equivalent of smuggling whole generations of preschoolers as they line up for the school bus 'Glass eels' aren't a species, they're the vulnerable young of European Eels, swimming up river to their freshwater adult homes after spending their infant nursery years at the sea. 618754
Reposted by Rob WinstoneGuy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Happy Solstice from Stonehenge. Trilithons, pyramidal orchids and dyer’s greenweed 432046
Rob Winstone @robwinstone.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Expectation vs reality… Think I may have missed them. Probably not the best time to visit in 30 degrees C weather either, but damn… will they make it through these droughts? #badgeworthbuttercup #ranunculusophioglossifolius #wildlife #trust #plants #botany #nature 040
Reposted by Rob WinstoneAlex Prendergast @bramblebotanist.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Today’s other highlight - Pheasant’s-eye Adonis annua. A tiny ruby jewel in a the most wonderful field margin 0433
Reposted by Rob WinstoneBig Meadow Search @bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social · 18/05/2025Botanical Society of Scotland’s Species of the Week: Water Avens botsoc.scot/2025/05/18/p...botsoc.scotPlant of the Week – May 19th 2025 – Water Avens (Geum rivale)If plants had psychological characteristics, this species would be classed as an introvert. 091
Reposted by Rob WinstoneBig Meadow Search @bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Orange-horned Scabious Sawfly, Abia nitens. Adults approx. 1cm. Yellow clubbed antennae. Metallic bands on abdomen. Male has groove on last four abdomen segments. Fly May to August. Larvae feed on Devil’s-bit Scabious (shown) and Field Scabious. 0261
Reposted by Rob WinstoneBig Meadow Search @bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Cross-leaved Heath, Erica tetralix. Up to 70cm. Greenish-grey foliage with leaves in whorls of 4. Dusty-pink, urn-shaped flowers. Hairy leaves up to 5mm, some hairs gland-tipped. Corolla up to 9mm, anthers don’t project beyond. 0164
Rob Winstone @robwinstone.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Echium vulgare, or Viper’s bugloss, growing in abundance at Lamplighter’s Marsh in #Bristol #wildflower #urbanwildlife #purple #vipersbugloss #beauty #botany #nature #plants 060
Rob Winstone @robwinstone.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Lathyrus sylvertris and Verbena officinalis at Lamplighter’s Marsh in Bristol. 100
Rob Winstone @robwinstone.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Anacamptis pyramidalis, Verbascum thapsus, Silene latifolia & Malva sylvestris all growing wild along Severn Beach this summer. #botany #weed #wildflower #botanical #plants #native #wildlife 040
Reposted by Rob WinstoneEoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Top of my list of missing native species we should be looking at reintroducing to Ireland? Lynx!! • Never attack people • Rarely attack livestock • Aren't pack animals • Help regulate deer • Help regulate smaller predators, like fox • Are a huge tourist draw • Are just GORGEOUS!! 1550090
Reposted by Rob WinstoneMoira O'Donnell @naturelark.bsky.social · 08/06/2025I've saved my favourite until last - the utterly gorgeous Viper's Bugloss, Echium vulgare. Just such a stunning plant. #Wildflowerhour 51488
Rob Winstone @robwinstone.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Lathyrus nissolia, the grass vetchling. Almost indistinguishable from a grass until it flowers, due to its lack of true leaves, leaflets or tendrils. The leaf stalk is flattened out and resembles a leaf of grass, with stipules at the base. 000
Reposted by Rob WinstoneDr Richard Bate @thenewgalaxy.bsky.social · 25/05/202524/5/25 Cumbria - Phwoar! The Sword-Leaved Helleborine (Cephalanthera longifolia) is a seriously sexy plant, and I reckon our Northern populations are the best examples of this awesome #orchid, as well as the finest #orchids I have seen so far this year #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social 312412
Rob Winstone @robwinstone.bsky.social · 31/05/2025Found an abundance of common spotted orchid (Dactylorhiza fuchsii) toward the top of Lower Woods the other day. #wild #orchid #woodland 010
Rob Winstone @robwinstone.bsky.social · 11/05/2025New job at a rare plant nursery 🌿 Pan Global Plants 000
Reposted by Rob WinstoneEoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 12/04/2025Just as deadwood is a vital component of ecosystems, so are the animal carcasses that large predators would naturally deliver to landscapes on a continual basis. Their absence deprives a whole suite of species, from eagles down to many invertebrates. 110113
Reposted by Rob WinstoneEoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 12/04/2025Some of the most beautiful trees in any wild, natural forest are 'snags': dead, but still standing trees, like this oak. Deadwood is vital to around a fifth of all forest species, called saproxylics. In death, there is life. 🌎 321046124
Reposted by Rob WinstoneGuy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Bid to build Europe’s first research station on Atlantic temperate rainforest in Cornwall A great project by Merlin Hanbury-Tenison’s Thousand Year Trust, of which I’m a trustee: www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comBid to build Europe’s first research station on Atlantic temperate rainforest in CornwallCharity crowdfunding initial sum to build £750,000 facility on Bodmin Moor to study overlooked but biodiverse natural habitat 212625
Reposted by Rob WinstoneEoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Climate crisis on track to destroy civilisation, warns top insurer from Allianz. This has gone beyond so-called 'alarmists' (reality: truth tellers) Extinction Rebellion or Just Stop Oil saying it, to the very industry whose profits rely on predicting the future. www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comClimate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurerAction urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure 714764
Rob Winstone @robwinstone.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Big news! This was my favourite book that I read last year. I hope to visit Wistman’s Wood soon 💚 010
Rob Winstone @robwinstone.bsky.social · 30/03/2025A pretty little wood anemone (Anemonoides nemorosa) I saw in Lower Woods yesterday. The foliage is quite different to the others I saw, as it is dark greenish-purple. These are ancient woodland indicators. 070
Reposted by Rob WinstoneEoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 30/03/2025Studies show a massive return of fish and marine megafauna to sites with these underwater tidal turbines. How? Simple: overfishing is prevented. If they proved suitable for Irish locations, it would be *such* a win-win, generating clean electricity AND providing a haven for marine ecosystems. 23770245
Reposted by Rob WinstoneAlex Prendergast @bramblebotanist.bsky.social · 28/03/2025I dropped by to see the patch of Lathraea clandestina Purple Toothwort introduced 17 years ago to Crack Willows in a pit near Norwich. It’s doing well there but I didn’t expect to find it growing directly from the bark a meter above ground! The weirdest epiphyte? #wildflowerhour 612213
Reposted by Rob WinstoneSim Elliott @sim-elliott.bsky.social · 24/03/2025A few lichens seen on worked wood (fence posts and rails) today while on an excellent Sussex Bryophytes field meeting at Loxwood and Rudgwick. Platismatia glauca, Hypogymnia physodes and Usnea cornuta. #LichensGBI @britishlichensociety.org.uk 051
Reposted by Rob WinstoneDamian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 21/03/2025New forest to be created in west of England, with 20 million trees planted by 2050 - UK’s Climate Change Committee has said 2 billion new trees would be needed by 2050 www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comNew forest to be created in west of England, with 20m trees planted by 2050Western Forest will cover 2,500 hectares across Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Bristol 88823
Reposted by Rob WinstoneAlasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 21/03/2025US regime threatening to send its own citizens to a gulag if they vandalise symbols of the regime. 111
Reposted by Rob Winstonekottke.org @kottke.org · 20/03/2025What is the opposite of fascism? Living freely, colorfully, openly. Humanizing. Connecting with others. Gathering. Hoping. Following your dreams. Communing. Nurturing. Refusing despair. Laughing loudly. [the.ink]the.inkThe opposite of fascismLiving well and fighting back in a time of terrors 413832
Reposted by Rob WinstoneGeertje Geertsma 🍄 @geertje-geertsma.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Hoewel de vaart er wat uit is door persoonlijke omstandigheden, is het toch al een hele serie. Het zijn tekeningen van wat ik zie in #StadsparkGroningen Dit zijn wintersoorten, ik moet nog wat inhalen. #fungifriends #artjournal 5716
Reposted by Rob WinstoneWild Justice @wildjustice.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Good morning, from the back page of Private Eye magazine! 24882320
Reposted by Rob WinstoneFiona Mathews @fionamathews.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Imagine the response if this were a fox, badger, crow or stoat.... 07523
Reposted by Rob WinstoneBen Mitchell @wilde-eep.bsky.social · 14/03/2025A few photos of Ricasolia virens - one of my favourite lichens. When well hydrated it is rampantly vogon-green, with a fishy odour, and exuding tiny droplets of a milky white fluid from its pimple-shaped pycnidia. Also, <3 apothecia <3 #lichen #ricasolia #trypophobia_tw #argyll #scotland #uk 0152
Reposted by Rob WinstoneGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/03/20251. You feel powerless? Don’t know what you can do to resist the rise of fascism? Here is an answer: Good Things. Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine. Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it. The more we build community, the less it can take root. 🧵 7628371023
Reposted by Rob Winstonelukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Here is a nice mushroom 2275808243
Reposted by Rob WinstoneChris Thorogood @christhorogood.bsky.social · 05/03/2025A small galaxy of starfish flowers (Apocynaceae subfamily Asclepiadoideae) ⭐ 47312
Reposted by Rob WinstoneGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 04/03/2025If Russia is allowed to overrun Ukraine, Ukraine will become another Gaza. Netanyahu has demonstrated that you can commit repeated atrocities and still receive the support of successive US presidents. I fear that Gaza will be the model for future occupations. 731910498
Reposted by Rob WinstoneGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Trump never had a peace plan for Ukraine. He had a plan for Ukraine's surrender, with a colonial resource grab. As Zelenskyy rightly refused it, or to cooperate in Trump's TV spectacular, the US has now cut Ukraine off. That's what blackmail looks like. That's what the world is up against. 13856241663
Reposted by Rob WinstoneGuy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Daily reminder that a vote for Farage is a vote for Trump, Putin & Musk bsky.app/profile/poli... 79426
Reposted by Rob WinstoneCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 03/03/2025There it is. Literally saying the US and Russia are working together to take away the independence of another country. I'm wondering if any of our press is gonna pick this one up? Seems like headline material? 16336941180
Reposted by Rob WinstoneChris Thorogood @christhorogood.bsky.social · 02/03/2025Aristolochias produce some of the strangest flowers on Earth. Tiny flies, attracted to their curious colours and smells, are banged up in a floral prison cell at the back of the flowers: there they become enslaved to the plants' pollination services. 513535
