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Laura Weldon PhD @tecuk.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Jolly nice fungi, possibly Dryads saddle, growing from a beech stump

Large palm sizes mushroom shaped fungi growing from a beech stump

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Laura Weldon PhD @tecuk.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Startled a coal fungus!#kingalfredscakes #fungi

Small round black fungi on a twig with facial markings

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Laura Weldon PhD @tecuk.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Stenophylax spp., adult caddis fly, on the office door this morning. #invertebrate #ukwildlife #freshwater

Large pale brown long winged insect with antennae as long as the body an adult caddisfly

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Laura Weldon PhD @tecuk.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

#Wildflowerhour #woodlandplants bluebell but white, fairly confident it’s not a hybrid as deep in the woods and nodding (not upright)

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Laura Weldon PhD @tecuk.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

First one I’ve ever seen in woodland amongst the blue, I was lucky as a day later the wild garlic flowered and I wouldn’t have spotted it at all. I thought it might be unusual and had a quick Google where I found this ….

A screen grab describing the scarcity of white blue bells

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Laura Weldon PhD @tecuk.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Quick walk waiting for the last qPCR run and to let the dog stretch her legs look at this..bats and sunset what an evening!

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Laura Weldon PhD @tecuk.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Silk-button spangle gall wasp eggs, (fabulous name!) thousands of them along this hedge.Trellech wet meadows #invertebrate #ukwildlife

Underside of an oak leaf smothered in small brown eggs of a wasp

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Laura Weldon PhD @tecuk.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Small copper butterfly on red clover, Trellech meadows in the Wye valley #butterfly #invertebrates #ukwildlife

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Laura Weldon PhD @tecuk.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Wall butterfly (living up to its name), endangered on the GB red list (2022) #butterfly #invertebrates #ukwildlife

Brown butterfly with closed wings against a lichen covered stone. Wall butterfly.

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Laura Weldon PhD @tecuk.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Cinnabar moth caterpillars resting on heavily grazed ragwort. #mothsmatter #ukwildlife

One in focus striped yellow and black caterpillar resting vertically on the stalk of a ragwort plant

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Laura Weldon PhD @tecuk.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Leaf beetle (Timarcha app) but not bloody nose beetle #invertebrates #ukwildlife #beetle

Shiny smooth black leaf beetle on bare ground very rounded in appearance

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Laura Weldon PhD @tecuk.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Common alderfly, canal-side walk today.

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Laura Weldon PhD @tecuk.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Pop! Signs of spring, scarlet elf cap #fungi

Bright crimson cup shape fungi amongst leaf litter

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Laura Weldon PhD @tecuk.bsky.social · 13/10/2024

Kingfisher and otters on Stroud canal this morning 💕 #ukwildlife #wildlife #otter #mammal

Otter swimming towards the camera a mid sized mammal with thick tail and dark brown fur

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Laura Weldon PhD @tecuk.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

European hornet quietly getting on with life #ukwildlife #hornet

European hornet feeding on an clump of ivy

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Laura Weldon PhD @tecuk.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

Haha just realised why I’m the only person walking under the horse chestnut 🌰 avenue *thud

Avenue of horse chestnut trees in early autumn 🍂late summer sun

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Laura Weldon PhD @tecuk.bsky.social · 08/09/2024

Not many flowers about on the commons just a few Autumn hawkbit for #wildflowerhour

Yellow flower could be mistaken for a dandelion but has less petals and looks a little daisyish

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Laura Weldon PhD @tecuk.bsky.social · 08/09/2024

Cotoneaster, #fruits#wildflowerhour

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Laura Weldon PhD @tecuk.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

Very very soggy ditch surveys in Somerset today, more newts -this time smooth newt on a spoon #ukwildlife #somerset #freshwater 🌍

Larval form of a smooth newt, looks like a tadpole but with lizard legs and external frilly gills at the head end, on a pink spoon, white tray in the background with green vegetation

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Laura Weldon PhD @tecuk.bsky.social · 01/09/2024

Oh …I found this one in a Cotswold meadow a couple of weeks ago it was the only white one too!

Common knapweed flower usually a soft purple colour but this one is pure white

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Laura Weldon PhD @tecuk.bsky.social · 30/08/2024

Other half just asked me to identify this #moth on the cupboard 😂…pretty sure he needs new glasses not #ukwildlife

A lump of butter specked with pepper if you squint a bit it could be a moth 🥴

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Laura Weldon PhD @tecuk.bsky.social · 26/08/2024

#InverteFest Arion rufus black slug- contemplating its next move

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Laura Weldon PhD @tecuk.bsky.social · 25/08/2024

#DaisyFamily #WildflowerHour escapees from my neighbours allotment… ox-eye daisy returning to the wild

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