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Lukas Large
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Natural Science Curator. Natural History, particularly fungi, Museums, Heritage & Art

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britmycolsoc.org.uk
Publishing, reading and reviewing papers in BMS #journals helps support and promote fungal biology #research, #education, recording and #conservation. Find out how to access the journals, or how to submit your #mycology research or field studies here: www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/publications...
Front covers of the four BMS journals
February 11, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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Mycena chlorophos 🟢🟢🟢

Fungi are one of the largest kingdoms of organisms, but of the over 100,000 described species, only a fraction glow in the dark.

Bioluminescence, a chemical reaction that produces light, is the reason these unique organisms can brighten the night.

#fungus #mushrooms #nature
February 11, 2026 at 11:49 AM
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Death by Fungus: a photo gallery.
Death by Fungus - Alex Wild
Among the most spectacular threats faced by insects are pathogenic, insect-killing fungi. Some of the more specialized fungal species invade the brains of their hosts, altering the insects' behaviors ...
www.alexanderwild.com
February 10, 2026 at 9:53 PM
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Beetles and other bugs by G. Baldassini from Volume One of the Italian art portfolio series ‘Modelli D’arte Decorativa,’ published by Bestetti and Tumminelli in the 1910s.

UW-Milwaukee Special Collections.

#beetleart #insectart #coleoptera
February 11, 2026 at 1:37 AM
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🥈 Our 2nd place winner in the #InsectWeek Photography Competition is Dara Ojo (IG: explorewithdara) with a striking image captures a leafhopper overtaken by a green Metarhizium fungus, revealing the dramatic and often unseen interactions that shape tiny ecosystems.

Read more & view the galleries 🔽
Winning insect images revealed in RES Photography Competition 2025
View the Insect Week galleries
buff.ly
February 10, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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OUT NOW!
Silver Beyond Empire
The transition between late Roman and early medieval Europe
edited by Alice E. Blackwell, Fraser Hunter, Andreas Rau & Martin Goldberg

📚 Read online for free or purchase your own volume at www.sidestone.com/books/silver...

#silver #earlymedieval
February 10, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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Landscape sketch by Samuel Palmer www.britishmuseum.org/collection/i...
Hilly landscape, with buildings at l including church and house with steep gable, crescent moon and birds in sky, formerly in a sketch-book of 77 sketches bound originally in sheep. c1824 Pen and brown ink Verso: Row of studies of ecclesiastical character in an architectural setting, or perhaps a reredos, a figure of Christ (?) below. c1824 Pen and brown ink recto
February 10, 2026 at 12:15 PM
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Fungi mining and giant waste piles: How to get rare earths without mining rock
As nations posture over access to rare earth deposits, scientists say these coveted materials are hiding in plain sight – and can be harvested without any conventional mining at all.
www.bbc.com
February 9, 2026 at 11:22 AM
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Shameless plug for possibly my favourite day of the year! The Staffordshire Invertebrate Science Fair. A brilliant event with just loads of interesting stands and people. At a new site this year so should be more space 😊😊😊😊
February 2, 2026 at 9:32 PM
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#TansleyInsight: Endophytes with #mycorrhizal potentials: biological and ecological implications

Yuan et al.
👇

📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#LatestIssue
Fig. 1 Schematic representation of the major features of mycorrhiza-like endophytes (MLEs).
February 8, 2026 at 11:01 AM
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This magnificent painting of a bull on the cover of 'Like a Wall in Which an Insect Lives and Gnaws' by Bull of Heaven, is in the collection of @themerl.bsky.social I need to visit and see more rectangular livestock
February 8, 2026 at 8:53 AM
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Check out "Revision of the comose flame moths of the genus Sosxetra Walker (Noctuidae, Dyopsinae), with descriptions of a new genus and three new species" (Martinez et al., 2026) zookeys.pensoft.net/article/1382...

These fluffy pink moths were a highlight of the Belize BugShot workshops 💗
February 6, 2026 at 8:48 PM
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Petroglyphs of 'Fly Agaric people', Pegtymel River, Chukotka, Siberia. Source: Holders of strength, Fly Agaric in Chukotka culture. Y I Ozheredov & A A Yarzutkina, 2023 #Ethnomycology
Tracing of female figures with mushrooms above their heads and reindeer
February 7, 2026 at 7:38 PM
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Amazing slime moulds..........

A world where we are the giants and these little fellas or literally 1-2mm in height which you can barely see!

www.dhphotography.info/macrophotogr...

#macro #photography #slimemould #macrophotography #nature #mushrooms
February 7, 2026 at 8:50 AM
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Wildlife group returned to the English/Welsh border on Weds to the location of our Land Caddis (Enoicyla pusilla) discovery last Nov. Found in v. good numbers again & over a wider area. Grown too: cases now around 3.5mm long (prob 3rd instar of 5). Excellent result!
A Land Caddis larva. Britain's only terrestrial caddisfly. The larva constructs a tubular case from particles of soil & vegetation which it lives within, sticking its head & legs out of the wide end to move around. This one is about 3.5mm long, with the head & legs visible bottom left. Three Land Caddis cases (the larvae are inside them but have pulled themselves in like tortoises retreating into their shells) on someone's hand. Habitat shot. A clearing in mixed coniferous & broadleaved woodland. There is some snow on the ground.
February 6, 2026 at 11:13 AM
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Alexanders, Smyrnium olusatrum (2 of 2). Commonly infected by the rust fungus, Puccinia smyrnii
February 7, 2026 at 8:05 AM
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Happy #flyday
Nicobar #pigeon - Caloenas nicobarica
(Shot at @cincinnatizoo.bsky.social 1-1-26) 🐦🕊️🦤 #photography #animal #bird #zoo #cincyzoopic
A Nicobar pigeon (Caloenas nicobarica) perched on a branch in their zoo enclosure facing the left of frame.
February 6, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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Been back looking for more graveyard fungi, and on a patch of Bryum capillare moss on a gravestone, found this tiny little ascomycete. It most closely resembles Octospora coccinea, but the jury's out on that so far. #fungifriends #fungi #naturephotography #mycology
February 6, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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🚨📚Following on from the comments on last week’s bookshop story, we want to hear from YOU! Who are some Birmingham authors that should be on our radar?🚨📚

Read last week’s piece below, by the way⬇️
www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/what-happene...
February 6, 2026 at 12:08 PM
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britmycolsoc.org.uk
BMS has over 40 affiliated local fungus groups across the UK, typically run by expert mycologist volunteers who record & monitor fungi, support conservation efforts, & help those new to fungi learn more 🍄 Find a UK fungus group near you: www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/recording-ne...
Photo of expert mycologist Geoffrey Kibby presenting in front of screen, on which there is a photo of fungi on a woodland floor.
February 6, 2026 at 1:15 PM
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What characteristics of dead wood promote fungal species richness in forests? And how can we use this information to manage fungal biodiversity?

New research on the functional diversity of dead wood in Norwegian forests provides some answers.
doi.org/10.1016/j.fu...

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Researchers sampling forest communities Gullenhaugen Nature Reserve in Norway, where the research in Fungal Ecology was conducted Four components of functional diversity of dead wood
February 6, 2026 at 12:09 PM
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That this person is not in prison facing attempted murder charges shows how we just don't take vehicle violence seriously
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While the protest was underway, Thames Valley Police issued several tickets to offenders – including one motorist who, when seeing the children wave their signs at him while he was parking on double yellows, mounted the pavement and drove towards them.
February 6, 2026 at 11:29 AM
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The February cover of "Ecological Monographs" gets right to the root! This larch root & its fuzzy fungal partner were photographed as part of a study showing how roots & fungal allies shift their foraging strategies as forests age

Find the issue: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15577015...
Cover of the February 2026 issue of Ecological Monographs
February 5, 2026 at 2:41 PM
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“At the fly-agaric people’s camp” engraved Walrus tusk by the Chukchi artist Lidiya Teyutina. It depicts stories she heard in her youth about the Fly Agaric people from the older members of her community #FungiFriends easteast.world/posts/94
"On the back of the walrus tusk, we see a different scene. A man and a woman arrive at the fly-agaric people’s camp by reindeer-drawn sled and engage in sexual contact with them. The journey itself is probably the result of mushroom consumption. The action is not directly depicted in the engraving, but the fact that it did actually take place is eloquently evidenced by the previous episode which depicted the gathering of fly-agarics in the tundra.”
February 5, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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Twenty-three years of potoroo poo shows that these mycophagists are eating different ectomycorrhizal #truffles under #ClimateChange.

#OpenAccess article: doi.org/10.1002/ecog.08410

🧪 #mycology #ecology #WildOz
A ten panel figure showing how five truffle genera (Mesophellia, Hysterangium, Arcangeliella, Thaxterogaster, and Austrogautieria) change in presence and abundance in potoroo scat based on climate variables such as weekly max temp and quarterly min temp.
February 5, 2026 at 4:26 AM