Judy Webb
@judywebb.bsky.social
Ecologist, Palynologist (pollen expert) quite good at Botany, Entomology & Mycology. Conservationist. Ex School Teacher, Ex Forensic Scientist.
Look at these lovely Oxycera soldierflies and the opportunity to learn all about them..
🪰 Meet the Oxycera soldierflies!
Small, coloured, and tied to clean streams & wetlands, these tiny flies are amazing habitat indicators.
Join @kitenet.bsky.social for our Soldierflies entoLEARN on 16 April 🧪🌎
🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1976906539...
@uk-soldierflies.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social
Small, coloured, and tied to clean streams & wetlands, these tiny flies are amazing habitat indicators.
Join @kitenet.bsky.social for our Soldierflies entoLEARN on 16 April 🧪🌎
🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1976906539...
@uk-soldierflies.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social
February 4, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Look at these lovely Oxycera soldierflies and the opportunity to learn all about them..
Pretty, pretty Sphagnum mosses. And they make peat and store carbon!
Sphagnum subnitens, capillifolium and strictum #moss #bryophyte
February 3, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Pretty, pretty Sphagnum mosses. And they make peat and store carbon!
Reposted by Judy Webb
For @robcrank68.bsky.social's #BirdOfTheDay theme of #Reflections, here's a Grey Wagtail (Motacilla cinerea) looking for insects.
#birds #UKWildlife #photography #EastCoastKin #LyeValley #Oxford @friendlyevalley.bsky.social
#birds #UKWildlife #photography #EastCoastKin #LyeValley #Oxford @friendlyevalley.bsky.social
February 3, 2026 at 9:36 AM
For @robcrank68.bsky.social's #BirdOfTheDay theme of #Reflections, here's a Grey Wagtail (Motacilla cinerea) looking for insects.
#birds #UKWildlife #photography #EastCoastKin #LyeValley #Oxford @friendlyevalley.bsky.social
#birds #UKWildlife #photography #EastCoastKin #LyeValley #Oxford @friendlyevalley.bsky.social
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Female #kakapo Kohengi on her three eggs on Pukenui/Anchor Island today. We don't yet know if they're fertile, but will investigate soon. So far fertility on Anchor is very high: only 8 infertile out of 33 checked. We expect many more infertile eggs though. #kakapo2026 #conservation #birds
February 3, 2026 at 8:54 AM
Female #kakapo Kohengi on her three eggs on Pukenui/Anchor Island today. We don't yet know if they're fertile, but will investigate soon. So far fertility on Anchor is very high: only 8 infertile out of 33 checked. We expect many more infertile eggs though. #kakapo2026 #conservation #birds
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Slime mold hanging with lichens.
The orange grapey thing is slime mold, Badhamia utricularis. The structures to the right and all around the slime mold is Cladonia lichen. NWT, Canada.
#lichen #fungi #fingifriends
The photo covers about 3cm left to right.
The orange grapey thing is slime mold, Badhamia utricularis. The structures to the right and all around the slime mold is Cladonia lichen. NWT, Canada.
#lichen #fungi #fingifriends
The photo covers about 3cm left to right.
February 3, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Slime mold hanging with lichens.
The orange grapey thing is slime mold, Badhamia utricularis. The structures to the right and all around the slime mold is Cladonia lichen. NWT, Canada.
#lichen #fungi #fingifriends
The photo covers about 3cm left to right.
The orange grapey thing is slime mold, Badhamia utricularis. The structures to the right and all around the slime mold is Cladonia lichen. NWT, Canada.
#lichen #fungi #fingifriends
The photo covers about 3cm left to right.
Always a fabulous event if you can get there...
Save the date! Come & meet the Dipterist Forum gang at the Staffs Invert Science Fair! Loads for kids dipterists.org.uk/events/staff... @royentsoc.bsky.social @flygirlnhm.bsky.social @davebriceflies.bsky.social @lancefly.bsky.social @suillia.bsky.social @nbntrust.bsky.social @britentsoc.bsky.social
February 3, 2026 at 12:42 PM
Always a fabulous event if you can get there...
Dreich is good for the #fen (lots of rain...) if not people; but tomorrow promises to be the one dry day this week. Wednesday is volunteer day in the valley. Why not visit and chat to us about all the good works for wildlife we are achieving?
Dreich morning in the Lye Valley, feels like -3C #Oxford
February 3, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Dreich is good for the #fen (lots of rain...) if not people; but tomorrow promises to be the one dry day this week. Wednesday is volunteer day in the valley. Why not visit and chat to us about all the good works for wildlife we are achieving?
Did you realise there are special wetland spiders and many of them are threatened?
For #WorldWetlandsDay, we're shining a light on four of the 25% of Britain's threatened spider species that are wetland specialists. They're entirely dependent on aquatic habitats remaining wet, unpolluted and growing, not shrinking, in size and connectivity @naturalengland.bsky.social
February 2, 2026 at 9:58 PM
Did you realise there are special wetland spiders and many of them are threatened?
What a beautiful snowdrop!
Galanthus nivalis ‘Green Tear’ a virescent snowdrop, var virescens - genetics found in some Dutch & Belgian populations.
February 2, 2026 at 5:59 PM
What a beautiful snowdrop!
Reposted by Judy Webb
Sphagnum fallax and fimbratum or girgensohnii #moss #bryophyte
February 2, 2026 at 9:42 AM
Sphagnum fallax and fimbratum or girgensohnii #moss #bryophyte
Should be good for all who want to identifly those long-legged Dolichopodid flies.
Excellent! It's here and available to order from RES/CABI; the eagerly anticipated volume - years in the making - British Dolichopodidae. Really looking forward to having this sat on my desk. A colossal achievement by Martin.
February 2, 2026 at 1:59 PM
Should be good for all who want to identifly those long-legged Dolichopodid flies.
Looking forward to all of these
'February' from Eliot Hodgkin's 'The Months, 1951. Other than a succulent stalk of forced rhubarb, and a florist's tulip, garden flowers now predominate. There's early primula allionii, dainty snowdrops, iris reticulata, celandine, sprays of daphne and winter jasmine, and two gladiolus bulbs.
February 1, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Looking forward to all of these
A chance to learn about fantastic soldierflies!
BENHS Dinton Pastures - Soldierflies and Allies workshop - Martin Harvey May 3rd, 10:30 - 16:00. Dinton Pastures, Nr. Reading.
To book a place mail; indoormeetings@benhs.org.uk, please supply a mobile phone contact number
Image: Steven Falk
To book a place mail; indoormeetings@benhs.org.uk, please supply a mobile phone contact number
Image: Steven Falk
February 1, 2026 at 5:21 PM
A chance to learn about fantastic soldierflies!
Reposted by Judy Webb
A wonderful bee mimic, the Long-horned soldierfly.
January 30, 2026 at 9:06 PM
A wonderful bee mimic, the Long-horned soldierfly.
Sphagnum mosses are so beautiful
Sphagnum fallax var brevifolium, S. Flexuosum and S. medium/divinum #moss #bryophyte
January 30, 2026 at 9:25 AM
Sphagnum mosses are so beautiful
Reposted by Judy Webb
Cladonia diversa is very variable, with some podetia bearing swollen bright red fruiting bodies, and others just tiny red studs on the cup rim. Heaths and dunes.
January 29, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Cladonia diversa is very variable, with some podetia bearing swollen bright red fruiting bodies, and others just tiny red studs on the cup rim. Heaths and dunes.
Reposted by Judy Webb
The local Great Spotted Woodpeckers are fully into the aerial pursuit phase of their breeding season. Three birds were chasing each other continually over the Lye Valley area, Oxford, this morning, giving these calls:
macaulaylibrary.org/asset/649848...
@friendlyevalley.bsky.social
#UKbirding
macaulaylibrary.org/asset/649848...
@friendlyevalley.bsky.social
#UKbirding
January 29, 2026 at 4:12 PM
The local Great Spotted Woodpeckers are fully into the aerial pursuit phase of their breeding season. Three birds were chasing each other continually over the Lye Valley area, Oxford, this morning, giving these calls:
macaulaylibrary.org/asset/649848...
@friendlyevalley.bsky.social
#UKbirding
macaulaylibrary.org/asset/649848...
@friendlyevalley.bsky.social
#UKbirding
Reposted by Judy Webb
![3-panel comic. (1) [Three small arthropods on ocean floor.] ARTHROPOD 1: Now that we’re multicellular, what are your plans? I’m gonna evolve little legs and swim around with them! ARTHROPOD 2: I’m gonna evolve sharp pincers and use them to crunch stuff! ARTHROPOD 3: I’m gonna evolve glands to make string from my butt and use it to construct elaborate geometric nets hundreds of times my size to catch other animals. (2) [Silence] (3) ARTHROPOD 1: *Dude.* ARTHROPOD 2: Can you *please* just be normal about this? ARTHROPOD 3: *What??!*](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreia3p425asp237hjolbn5lly6g6hzm2eoygqjpkd5dii6zrwqnp7qi@jpeg)
January 28, 2026 at 7:57 PM
I'm so fond of caterpillars!
Let’s have a little love for larvae… 🐛
🎥 By James Bashford
🎶 Caterpillar Crawl by The Lively Ones
🌟 Created in Edits
#NatureWithin #TeamMoth @savebutterflies.bsky.social @chrisgpackham.bsky.social
🎥 By James Bashford
🎶 Caterpillar Crawl by The Lively Ones
🌟 Created in Edits
#NatureWithin #TeamMoth @savebutterflies.bsky.social @chrisgpackham.bsky.social
January 29, 2026 at 1:40 PM
I'm so fond of caterpillars!
Reposted by Judy Webb
Slime mold, Stemonitopsis typhina.
NWT, Canada. #fungifriends #myxomycetes. The slime mold is about 1cm high.
NWT, Canada. #fungifriends #myxomycetes. The slime mold is about 1cm high.
January 26, 2026 at 12:55 AM
Slime mold, Stemonitopsis typhina.
NWT, Canada. #fungifriends #myxomycetes. The slime mold is about 1cm high.
NWT, Canada. #fungifriends #myxomycetes. The slime mold is about 1cm high.
This has been confirmed by DNA analysis as being Cortinarius lividomalvaceus. With oak on a road verge in Oxon. Maybe new to Britain...Hoping to get the verge a County Road Verge Nature Reserve, the first for fungi in county! many other nice woodland fungi here as well #fungifriends
January 27, 2026 at 10:04 AM
This has been confirmed by DNA analysis as being Cortinarius lividomalvaceus. With oak on a road verge in Oxon. Maybe new to Britain...Hoping to get the verge a County Road Verge Nature Reserve, the first for fungi in county! many other nice woodland fungi here as well #fungifriends
Wow, furniture designed to look like fungi!
January 27, 2026 at 8:54 AM
Wow, furniture designed to look like fungi!
A really pretty lichen..
Lichen, Rhizoplaca chrysoleuca (orange rock posy lichen). NWT, Canada.
#lichen #fungi #fungifriends
The photo covers about 4cm left to right.
#lichen #fungi #fungifriends
The photo covers about 4cm left to right.
January 26, 2026 at 2:55 PM
A really pretty lichen..