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Simon Harding @simon-ontheverge.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Nothing to see here, just some pretty fungal reproductive vessels from a mycelial network connected to tree roots helping them function whilst locking up soil carbon. Hortiboletus rubellus - Ruby bolete in the park with oak #FungusFriday #FungiFriends #Fungi #Mushrooms #Mycology #Nature #Wildlife

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Simon Harding @simon-ontheverge.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Friday fungi anyone? Entoloma poliopus in its unusual pink form. Exmoor 2023. Grassland fungi 👌🏼 #FridayFungi #FungiFriends #Fungi #Mycology #Mushrooms #Wildlife #Naturalist #Nature #Ecology

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Simon Harding @simon-ontheverge.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Some fungi ooze character, some just ooze 😍 Oak bracket - Pseudoinonotus dryadeus showing off its wonderful “guttation” #Fungi #FungiFriends #Nature #Wildlife #Mushrooms #Mycology

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Simon Harding @simon-ontheverge.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

2nd British record of Clitopilus abprunulus, now sequenced, from last September on a Stroud Common #Mycology #Fungi #Mushrooms #Ecology #Naturslist #Wildlife #FungiFriends

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Simon Harding @simon-ontheverge.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Just ordered the New Entoloma book due out this month - Entoloma s.l. 5c/Flora Agaricina Neerlandica vol. 1 suppl. 2. It provides a breakdown with keys of sequenced specimens including the E. bloxamii group which are at least seven species. #Fungi #Mycology #FungiFriends #Mushrooms #Nature

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Simon Harding @simon-ontheverge.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Looking at Wasp Spiders on the Somerset levels today

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Simon Harding @simon-ontheverge.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

We’re going to need more than a prolonged wet spell to see these on the Cotswold Commons for a while. Entoloma, Microglossum and Bee Orchid rosette November 2024.

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Simon Harding @simon-ontheverge.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Jackdaw v Hazelnuts - no contest! Dedication to the cause in littering the ground with nutshells. This is on my neighbours roof and still quite loud, in my garden they use the top of a telegraph pole as their table 😃

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Simon Harding @simon-ontheverge.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Lesser Stag Beetle in the garden today

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Simon Harding @simon-ontheverge.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Bees, butterflies, moths, hoverflies, grasshoppers, crickets and beetles are all doing well in my little back garden… it’s buzzing.

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Simon Harding @simon-ontheverge.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

RIP Bill Oddie ❤️ Memories of walking Kites Hill near Painswick as part of a World Land Trust awareness event will stay with me for ever, as will the good conversations we had, thank you

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Simon Harding @simon-ontheverge.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Just had another nice visitor to my little wildflower garden 👌🏼😊

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Simon Harding @simon-ontheverge.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Thrilled to have this guest in my kitchen this morning! Great green bush-cricket (Tettigonia viridissima) I think, he’s back out in my wildlife garden now on some Wild Carrot 😍 #UKWildlife #Naturalist #Nature

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Chris Packham tells us why he is throwing his support behind the UK Nature's Rights Bill. Send your MP the template email asking them to support this bill. Template is available at nataliebennett.org, links in Natalie's bio.

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Simon Harding @simon-ontheverge.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

To the “untrained eye” my wildflower garden is very untrained! Perfect! 😆 just what I’ve been hoping for 😂 Today’s butterfly count: Painted Lady, Ringlet, Meadow brown, Small Skipper, Sml Tortoiseshell, Lge & Sml Whites, Common Blue, Comma, Speckled wood, plus lots of moths and Damsel & Dragonflies

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Simon Harding @simon-ontheverge.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Common Twayblades, Pyramidal and Bee Orchids on Minchinhampton Common looking nice among the Thyme and Helianthemum @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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Simon Harding @simon-ontheverge.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Jersey Tiger moths are doing well again in my back garden and emerging from the Green alkanet that’s also a constant buzz with bees

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Simon Harding @simon-ontheverge.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

This Dragonfly made it 20 feet from my pond overnight and was quite happy at sunrise on the house wall in the rain. I.D. suggestions welcome if it’s possible in an emerging state #Dragonflies

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Simon Harding @simon-ontheverge.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Lovely day out on the Somerset levels today and in a break from sequencing grassland fungi we went hopping around the meadow to see the Frog orchids, Southern Marsh and a Fragrant hybrid? 🤔 #wildflowerhour

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Simon Harding @simon-ontheverge.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Fungi are crucial to many of life’s ecological ladders, and the first rung that many plants need to exist. Without the plants we don’t get the insects, the birds and mammals that depend on them, including us! Yet Fungi are continually ignored. #Conservation #Fungi #Ecology #Naturalist #Fungifriends

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Biological Recording Company @biologicalrecording.co.uk · 28/05/2026

How does a spider choose its flowers? 🕷️🌸 Meet Misumena vatia – an ambush predator that hunts pollinators, takes down huge prey, and even changes colour to camouflage. Join @envirosyment.bsky.social on 2 June to see how modern ecology uncovers these secrets: 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1915221742...

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Simon Harding @simon-ontheverge.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I’ve only a small back garden but it’s nice to escape to. Sat out looking at the Mayfly dancing up and down while I’m waiting for the early bats to arrive over the wildflower garden. Vetch have done very well this year, Bythinian in particular benefitted from the wet winter @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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Simon Harding @simon-ontheverge.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

More “Pets” in the wildlife garden 😃 I wondered what was turfing out the old Blue Tit nest. they’re quite industrial.

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Jennifer Anderson @jandbio.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Aquatic Fungi Diversity 2026! Celebrate #BiodiversityDay with us 💧🍄This Friday💧🍄 4 talks highlighting marine and freshwater fungi by experts from around the world. Register here: tinyurl.com/aquaticfungi... @funaction.bsky.social @mostfun.bsky.social @iucnaquafungi.bsky.social & GCSS

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Simon Harding @simon-ontheverge.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Green-winged orchid Selsley Common, Stroud yesterday. Just look at those petticoats 😃

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Simon Harding @simon-ontheverge.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Bird watching in Filton this morning 😃

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Simon Harding @simon-ontheverge.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Toads have fab eyes… who could resist such beauty? 😂

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Simon Harding @simon-ontheverge.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Nice to see a sleeping bee and a ladybird on my Cuckooflower when I got home from work today. Happy Earth Day everyone, let’s not forget when we look at nature the soil itself holds many secrets and should be valued for what we cannot see 👀

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Simon Harding @simon-ontheverge.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Well that was fun, a week in Sweden with like minded fungi conservationists. We even ventured into the forest to see the Witches cauldron - Sarcosoma globosum not yet recorded in Britain #Fungifriends #Fungi #Mycology #Nature #Wildlife #Conservation #Mushrooms

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Simon Harding @simon-ontheverge.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Newly described Entoloma griseopulchrum, part of the E. undulatosporum group. This was from Minchinhampton Common in the Cotswolds, confirmed by Machiel Noordeloos the genus global expert. #FungiFriends #Mycology #Mushrooms #Fungi #Naturalist #UKWildlife

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Simon Harding @simon-ontheverge.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Friday fungi - Neohygrocybe nitrata listed as “VU” to extinction in the wild on the IUCN Red list and is a good indicator species of quality grassland fungi habitat #Fungi #Mushrooms #UKNature #FungiFriends #Naturalist #Waxcaps #Conservation #Mycology

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Simon Harding @simon-ontheverge.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Great to see the Fungi Kingdom gaining more recognition. Hopefully the foundational role fungi have in our ecosystems will receive greater conservation efforts #Fungi #Mycology #Mushrooms #UKNature #FungiFriends #Naturalist #Wildlife

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Simon Harding @simon-ontheverge.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Something for the weekend - Vermilion waxcap - Hygrocybe miniata in its most glorious red. Exmoor grassland #FungiFriends #Fungi #Mushrooms #Mycology #UKNature #Naturalist #UKWildlife

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Simon Harding @simon-ontheverge.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

48 LNRSs in England — most ignore fungi. Ecological recovery without fungi is a broken promise. Fungi are essential components of biodiversity. Without them, 30x30 will fail. Does your council plan to fail? #FungiFriends #Fungi #Mycology #Naturalist 👉 Find your LNRS here: www.gov.uk/government/p...

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Local nature recovery strategies: areas and responsible authorities

Map showing the local nature recovery strategy (LNRS) areas in England and the responsible authority who will lead the preparation of each strategy.

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Simon Harding @simon-ontheverge.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Entoloma atromadidum, sequenced find from a Cotswold Common. One of the Big Blue Pinkgill group that contains species yet to be determined. #FungiFriends #Mycology #Fungi #Mushrooms #UKWildlife #Naturalist #Nature

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Simon Harding @simon-ontheverge.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Gliophorus psittacinus - Parrot Waxcap for Mushroom Monday. Love the way these so often blend in with their surroundings so well you can hardly find them until their age gives them away #FungiFriends #Fungi #Mushrooms #UKWildlife #Naturalist #Mycology #Nature #Naturalist

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Simon Harding @simon-ontheverge.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Cotswold grazed grassland was where I saw this chunky little Cordyceps militaris recently #Fungi #Mushrooms #Mycology #UKNaturalist #Wildlife #FungiFriends

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Simon Harding @simon-ontheverge.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Monday #Mushroom added to the English list last week and one to look out for at the moment, Clavaria calabrica. Looking a bit like Clavaria fumosa but with “dividing fingers”, the texture is more wax crayon like than C. fumosa. #FungiFriends #Naturalist #Mycology #Fungi #UKWildlife

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Simon Harding @simon-ontheverge.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

A different location than last week for Clustered Bellflower on a Minchinhampton Common today #WildflowerHour

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Simon Harding @simon-ontheverge.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Harebell in the mist on Minchinhampton Common today Early submission for #WildflowerHour as I’ll be busy later

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Jassy Drakulic @jassydrak.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

My first book RHS Fungi for Gardeners is out now! Such an amazing opportunity to write for RHS and with such fantastic publishers as DK. Better yet is that doing it enabled me to get my own compound microscope 🤩🍄 Check how the hyphae bend out at 90° on Mycena leptocephala stems #fungifriends

Dark blue hardback cover of RHS Fungi for Gardeners on a set of shelves of gardening books in a book shop

Jassy Drakulic standing next to the bookshelves featuring her new book, smiling

Red stained hyphae of nitrous bonnet with pointed ends that bend away from the stem at right angles

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Simon Harding @simon-ontheverge.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Think this is Clustered Bellflower - Campanula glomerata I saw yesterday, not large plants, not much clustering going on… and quite late in the year. Not recorded in the area for a while #WildflowerHour sorry it’s a bit late 😀 Oh and a late Autumn Gentian from Minchinhampton last wk (diff location).

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Mr and Mrs Trellis @thenorfolkcoast.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Protecting Waxcaps: All the Losses We Cannot See. Britain’s waxcap grasslands are considered to be some of the best in Europe.... www.plantlife.org.uk/protecting-w...

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Protecting Waxcaps: All the Losses We Cannot See… - Plantlife

Britain’s waxcap grasslands are considered to be the best in Europe. Discover the pressures these colourful fungi and their habitats face...

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Simon Harding @simon-ontheverge.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

The lovely sky was worth braving the chill wind on Minchinhampton Common today

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