Ben Mitchell @wilde-eep.bsky.social · 17/09/2026A rather splendid common frog. Posing politely. #rana #frog #wildlifephotography #argyll #scotland #uk 000
Ben Mitchell @wilde-eep.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Bazzania trilobata doing its best topiary impression. #liverwort #bazzania #naturephotography #argyll #scotland #uk 010
Ben Mitchell @wilde-eep.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Exploring some back roads on a rainy day. #rain #byways #landscapephotography #treetunnel #argyll #scotland #uk 090
Ben Mitchell @wilde-eep.bsky.social · 11/07/2026The ash trees may be dying, but there is still a lot to like about this ravine. #ravine #landscapephotography #argyll #scotland #uk 1120
Ben Mitchell @wilde-eep.bsky.social · 10/07/2026The forest floor was studded with thousands of tiny, white mushrooms. These are Hymenoscyphus fraxineus - the fungus that causes ash die-back disease. #hymenoscyphus #ashdieback #ash #naturephotography #argyll #scotland #uk 081
Ben Mitchell @wilde-eep.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Deep in a tangly spruce plantataion. These trees were blown over by a storm about 25 years ago but they didn't die. They just grew up again from side branches. #moss #intothewoods #windthrow #argyll #scotland #uk 010
Ben Mitchell @wilde-eep.bsky.social · 08/07/202619 months of development on this fantastic dead end sign. November 2024 -> June 2026. #lichen #moss #naturephotography #signage #argyll #scotland #uk 0215
Ben Mitchell @wilde-eep.bsky.social · 07/07/2026A tiny mushroom with sparse, spiky hairs projecting from its cap. Mycena aciculata, I think. #fungi #mushrooms #mycena #naturephotography #argyll #scotland #uk 0101
Ben Mitchell @wilde-eep.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Harbour seals putting in a hard shift at the loaf factory, Inchmarnock. #phoca #seal #wildlifephotography #inchmarnock #argyll #scotland #uk 060
Ben Mitchell @wilde-eep.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Behold! A horwort. <<<3 It's my first time seeing one and I am delighted ^_^ #anthocerotophyta #hornwort #naturephotography #bryophytes #naturephotography #argyll #scotland #uk 030
Ben Mitchell @wilde-eep.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Pilobolus kleinii, I think. One of the dung cannon fungi. #fungi #pilobolus #naturephotography #argyll #scotland #uk #dungcannon #hatthrower 38516
Ben Mitchell @wilde-eep.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Big volume #FencepostOfTheWeek #moss #naturephotography #argyll #scotland #uk 1121
Ben Mitchell @wilde-eep.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Puccinia albescens, a rust fungus, growing all over these townhall clock plants. (Photos from April.) #adoxa #puccinia #rustfungi #naturephotography #argyll #scotland #uk 090
Ben Mitchell @wilde-eep.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Alder fly sitting on the fence. #sialis #alderfly #insect #wildlifephotography #argyll #scotland #uk 070
Ben Mitchell @wilde-eep.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Tongue and Groove #FencepostOfTheWeek Not sure that's how you're supposed to do it but whatever works... #fencepost #moss #lichen #LonghornBeetle #argyll #scotland #uk 0193
Ben Mitchell @wilde-eep.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Auspicious signs, Inverary! They even left the reverse blank for your personal message... ^_^ #lichen #argyll #scotland #uk #signage #HereBeLichens 041
Ben Mitchell @wilde-eep.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Buff-tip moth from Achnabreac near Lochgilphead yesterday. A close look at some of the different scale/hair shapes contributing to its fancy get-up. #phalera #moth #buff-tip #insect #wildlifephotography #lepidoptera #argyll #scotland #uk 040
Ben Mitchell @wilde-eep.bsky.social · 08/05/2026No butterfly; only lichen! ^_^ #platismatia #lichen #anthrocharis #camouflage #orangetip #lepidoptera #insects #wildlifephotography #argyll #scotland #uk 0192
Ben Mitchell @wilde-eep.bsky.social · 07/05/2026So many bones. A thick layer of detritus from the bottom of a barn owl nest box. #bones #nest #owl #argyll #scotland #uk #naturephotography 030
Ben Mitchell @wilde-eep.bsky.social · 06/05/2026A splendid male adder, ready for action on the 23rd April. This year I missed all the action :'( #adder #snake #reptile #herps #naturephotography #vipera #argyll #scotland #uk #snake_cw 030
Ben Mitchell @wilde-eep.bsky.social · 04/05/2026A 3d scan of the same - I think I found the flue. 000
Ben Mitchell @wilde-eep.bsky.social · 04/05/2026A fascinating little ruin I found next to the Stowhall Burn above Acharossan. A corn kiln, perhaps. #argyll #scotland #uk 110
Ben Mitchell @wilde-eep.bsky.social · 28/04/2026I think it is likely to be fungus gnats: wild-e-eep.blogspot.com/2025/01/myst...wild-e-eep.blogspot.comMystery WebsYou may find substantial, dense webs on fungi in autumn. These look quite like the tent-webs of some moth and sawfly larvae, but differ in... 000
Ben Mitchell @wilde-eep.bsky.social · 28/04/2026No: it's mostly weirdly hinged rectangles. #algae #diatom #tabellaria 010
Ben Mitchell @wilde-eep.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Smooth, wiggly algae going with the flow. If I look at them under a microscope, I'm sure they'll be even flowier and wigglier, right? 100
Ben Mitchell @wilde-eep.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Fishbone lichen enjoying a bit of a breeze. #lichen #argyll #scotland #uk #usnea 020
Ben Mitchell @wilde-eep.bsky.social · 22/04/2026A couple of jaunty sea-side lichens having a tussle. I think I've got Xanothoria aureola in yellow and Anaptychia runcinata in brown (it goes a lovely avocado green colour when well hydrated.) #lichen #anaptychia #xanthoria #naturephotography #argyll #scotland #uk 0122
Ben Mitchell @wilde-eep.bsky.social · 12/04/2026What have we been finding in West Cowal? Lots of groovy things. Here's the report: www.inaturalist.org/posts/127579... #biologicalrecording #inaturalist #temperaterainforest #cowal #argyll #naturephotographyinaturalist.orgYou Never Know What You Might Find! - Returning to West Cowal's Rainforest._The Kyles of Bute core area of rainforest, West Cowal. credit:_ @ian_dow Since the __Argyll Countryside Trust (ACT)__ launched the West Cowal Rainforest Habitat Regeneration - Biological Recording Pr... 020
Ben Mitchell @wilde-eep.bsky.social · 10/04/2026A wonderful little common rough woodlouse - Porcellio scaber. #woodlouse #porecllio #wildlifephotography #glenan #argyll #scotland #uk 080
Ben Mitchell @wilde-eep.bsky.social · 05/04/2026Some lovely, leathery textures on this very fresh cabbage white chrysalis. <3 (from last August) #pieris #lepidoptera #insect #wildlifephotography #chrysalis #galloway #scotland #uk 0102
Ben Mitchell @wilde-eep.bsky.social · 01/04/2026I've been seeking out a tiny lichen called Arctomia - it has beautiful deep red apothecia and is one of the many denizens of lush mini-jungles that form in the canopy of liverwort mats on tree trunks in danker woodlands in these parts. #arctomia #liverworts #naturephotography #argyll #scotland #uk 0162
Ben Mitchell @wilde-eep.bsky.social · 28/03/2026I think this one's Metatrichia floriformis, but the reddish, lid-shaped ornaments are not normal. Anyone seen them before? 150
Ben Mitchell @wilde-eep.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Always check your stumps. ^_^ #slimemold #myxomycetes #slimemould #metatrichia #argyll #scotland #uk 150
Ben Mitchell @wilde-eep.bsky.social · 27/03/2026New-to-me slime mould spotted on the broken end of a dead birch branch. Looks like Comatricha nigra, maybe. #slimemold #myxomycetes #comatricha #slimemould #naturephotography #argyll #scotland #uk 061
Ben Mitchell @wilde-eep.bsky.social · 23/03/2026A soggy wooden post with an unusual topping: Stereocaulon dactylophyllum, I think. #FencepostOfTheWeek #stereocaulon #lichen #naturephotography #argyll #scotland #uk 0121
Ben Mitchell @wilde-eep.bsky.social · 19/03/2026An ash tree branch festooned with so many lichens. =) #lichen #naturephotography #argyll #scotland #uk 021
Ben Mitchell @wilde-eep.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Lephinchapel Burn: gorgeous! #argyll #scotland #uk #landscapephotography #gorge #wintersun 030
Ben Mitchell @wilde-eep.bsky.social · 15/03/2026Winter on the wane :-) #lobaria #spring #naturephotography #argyll #scotland #uk #lichen 094
Ben Mitchell @wilde-eep.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Wilson's filmy fern - Hymenophyllum wilsonii. Slightly dry but still very lovely ^_^ #fern #hymenophyllum #naturephotography #argyll #scotland #uk 0170
Ben Mitchell @wilde-eep.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Found a big, beautiful patch of Ricasolia virens cyanomorph on a willow near Auchalick Bay. #lichen #ricasolia #cyaonomorph #photosymbiodeme #naturephotography #argyll #scotland #uk 030
Ben Mitchell @wilde-eep.bsky.social · 09/12/2025Tripe fungus - Auricularia mesenterica. Looking like tiers of bizarrely inflated turkey tail brackets. It usually grows on elm wood. #fungi #auricularia #tripefungus #naturephotography #argyll #scotland #gigha #uk 050
Ben Mitchell @wilde-eep.bsky.social · 08/12/2025I believe I found Scytinium teretiusculum for the first time a few weeks back. Added it to my image matrix of bushy little jelly lichens that grow on trees: wild-e-eep.blogspot.com/2025/05/minu...wild-e-eep.blogspot.comMinutely Fruticose Jelly LichensTrying to make sense of some superficially minutely fruticose, corticolous jelly lichens in Cowal. Working primarily from the BLS Lichens... 031
Ben Mitchell @wilde-eep.bsky.social · 07/12/2025A bunch of springtails frolicking in the moss. #springtails #poduromorpha #wildlifephotography #argyll #scotland #uk #collembola 042
Ben Mitchell @wilde-eep.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Found a lumpy bit ^_^ #moss #oak #intothewoods #tuffets #naturephotography #argyll #scotland #uk 0102
Ben Mitchell @wilde-eep.bsky.social · 01/12/2025This entire fence has been pulled out of the ground and rolled up. It's still providing fertile surfaces for some nice lichens and mosses, though. #FencepostOfTheWeek 0122
Ben Mitchell @wilde-eep.bsky.social · 30/11/2025The underside of this lichen has some textures! I think this one is Umbilicaria torrefacta, growing on exposed rocks in a montane environment. #lichen #umbilicaria #trypophobia #naturephotography #argyll #scotland #uk #trypophobia 0121
