Di Napier
@larkinlichen.bsky.social
UK lichens, fungi, wildflowers, botany, wildlife, microscopy of tiny things
#butterfly @bcwarwickshire.bsky.social Common Blue or Brown Argus? Markings don’t quite seem to be right for either.
August 9, 2025 at 11:48 AM
#butterfly @bcwarwickshire.bsky.social Common Blue or Brown Argus? Markings don’t quite seem to be right for either.
Hummingbird hawkmoth, Small Copper, Red Admiral and Gatekeeper. Warwickshire garden and field edge #moth #butterfly
July 11, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Hummingbird hawkmoth, Small Copper, Red Admiral and Gatekeeper. Warwickshire garden and field edge #moth #butterfly
Brown Argus in our Warwickshire garden on Bird’s-foot Trefoil
July 8, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Brown Argus in our Warwickshire garden on Bird’s-foot Trefoil
#lichenGBI Caloplaca teicholyta with apothecia. First time I’ve seen it fertile. On calcareous ironstone, Warwickshire, UK. Used video to catch the red reaction on the apothecial section, as it dissolved out rapidly. The soredia gave a faint pinkish reaction to K (not really ‘dull violet’) >
May 29, 2025 at 2:21 PM
#lichenGBI Caloplaca teicholyta with apothecia. First time I’ve seen it fertile. On calcareous ironstone, Warwickshire, UK. Used video to catch the red reaction on the apothecial section, as it dissolved out rapidly. The soredia gave a faint pinkish reaction to K (not really ‘dull violet’) >
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Labour blocks proposal for ‘swift bricks’ in all new homes
Labour blocks proposal for ‘swift bricks’ in all new homes
MPs had previously backed Conservative amendment to ask developers to provide hollow bricks for endangered birds
Providing every new home with at least one “swift brick” to help endangered cavity-nesting birds has been rejected by Labour at the committee stage of its increasingly controversial planning bill.
The amendment to the bill to ask every developer to provide a £35 hollow brick for swifts, house martins, sparrows and starlings, which was tabled by Labour MP Barry Gardiner, has been rejected by the Labour-dominated committee. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
May 24, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Labour blocks proposal for ‘swift bricks’ in all new homes
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So Labour say they won't install swift bricks because they are moving away from specific species mitigations to landscape level ones.
But swifts nest IN BUILDINGS. So how is landscape-level compensation supposed to help? Just ecologically illiterate nonsense 🤦♀️
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
But swifts nest IN BUILDINGS. So how is landscape-level compensation supposed to help? Just ecologically illiterate nonsense 🤦♀️
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Labour blocks proposal for ‘swift bricks’ in all new homes
MPs had previously backed Conservative amendment to ask developers to provide hollow bricks for endangered birds
www.theguardian.com
May 24, 2025 at 7:07 AM
So Labour say they won't install swift bricks because they are moving away from specific species mitigations to landscape level ones.
But swifts nest IN BUILDINGS. So how is landscape-level compensation supposed to help? Just ecologically illiterate nonsense 🤦♀️
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
But swifts nest IN BUILDINGS. So how is landscape-level compensation supposed to help? Just ecologically illiterate nonsense 🤦♀️
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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🌟Call for Papers on #Lichen #symbiosis🌟 Thrilled to be a guest editor for The Lichenologist, together with @veera-t-nogerius.bsky.social, @ioanabrannstrom.bsky.social, and Ellen Cameron. Send us papers on the inner workings of lichens, submission is open till September 2025!
tinyurl.com/2w7wwubm
tinyurl.com/2w7wwubm
May 23, 2025 at 2:08 PM
🌟Call for Papers on #Lichen #symbiosis🌟 Thrilled to be a guest editor for The Lichenologist, together with @veera-t-nogerius.bsky.social, @ioanabrannstrom.bsky.social, and Ellen Cameron. Send us papers on the inner workings of lichens, submission is open till September 2025!
tinyurl.com/2w7wwubm
tinyurl.com/2w7wwubm
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My first post! And my posts are going to be about lichens. Because they are amazing and I love them! This is Dimelaena oreina, moonglow lichen. A tiny sample highly magnified, from Ft Adams, RI
May 22, 2025 at 11:40 PM
My first post! And my posts are going to be about lichens. Because they are amazing and I love them! This is Dimelaena oreina, moonglow lichen. A tiny sample highly magnified, from Ft Adams, RI
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🌿 Rainforest in the UK 😮
At the Chelsea Flower Show @RobStoneman, Director of Landscape Recovery at @TheWildlifeTrusts, is championing from the Rainforest Garden, which won silver-gilt. It is a breathtaking exhibit reminding us that rainforests are not just tropical.#ChelseaFlowerShow
At the Chelsea Flower Show @RobStoneman, Director of Landscape Recovery at @TheWildlifeTrusts, is championing from the Rainforest Garden, which won silver-gilt. It is a breathtaking exhibit reminding us that rainforests are not just tropical.#ChelseaFlowerShow
May 23, 2025 at 7:10 AM
🌿 Rainforest in the UK 😮
At the Chelsea Flower Show @RobStoneman, Director of Landscape Recovery at @TheWildlifeTrusts, is championing from the Rainforest Garden, which won silver-gilt. It is a breathtaking exhibit reminding us that rainforests are not just tropical.#ChelseaFlowerShow
At the Chelsea Flower Show @RobStoneman, Director of Landscape Recovery at @TheWildlifeTrusts, is championing from the Rainforest Garden, which won silver-gilt. It is a breathtaking exhibit reminding us that rainforests are not just tropical.#ChelseaFlowerShow
Interesting link to article about different perceptions of lichen interactions with building stone
Lichens as ecosystems? Interesting long read by @neacarter.bsky.social
I have strong memories of surveying lichens aged c12yo for some NGO. Must have been part of campaign against acid rain. Citizen science by snail mail.
theconversation.com/how-lichens-...
I have strong memories of surveying lichens aged c12yo for some NGO. Must have been part of campaign against acid rain. Citizen science by snail mail.
theconversation.com/how-lichens-...
How lichens are bringing stone to life and reconnecting us with the natural world
Lichens bridge the living and non-living – understanding them allows us to better see how to conserve our heritage, and also ourselves.
theconversation.com
May 17, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Interesting link to article about different perceptions of lichen interactions with building stone
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We have 3 fab #WildFlowerID webinars lined up for you this spring. Led by national experts. All absolutely free!
22 Apr: Mulleins with Mike Crewe
7 May: Mints with Ambroise Baker
10 June: Broomrapes with @christhorogood.bsky.social
Details & booking links:
bsbipublicity.blogspot.com/2025/03/shar...
22 Apr: Mulleins with Mike Crewe
7 May: Mints with Ambroise Baker
10 June: Broomrapes with @christhorogood.bsky.social
Details & booking links:
bsbipublicity.blogspot.com/2025/03/shar...
March 26, 2025 at 6:14 PM
We have 3 fab #WildFlowerID webinars lined up for you this spring. Led by national experts. All absolutely free!
22 Apr: Mulleins with Mike Crewe
7 May: Mints with Ambroise Baker
10 June: Broomrapes with @christhorogood.bsky.social
Details & booking links:
bsbipublicity.blogspot.com/2025/03/shar...
22 Apr: Mulleins with Mike Crewe
7 May: Mints with Ambroise Baker
10 June: Broomrapes with @christhorogood.bsky.social
Details & booking links:
bsbipublicity.blogspot.com/2025/03/shar...
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I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.
March 29, 2025 at 11:52 PM
I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.
#eclipse projection just now onto paper, using binoculars, cardboard and (a lot of) parcel tape. Quite a fiddle to set up. Warwickshire, UK
March 29, 2025 at 10:34 AM
#eclipse projection just now onto paper, using binoculars, cardboard and (a lot of) parcel tape. Quite a fiddle to set up. Warwickshire, UK
Busy frogs last night. There was only one clump of #frogspawn at 7 pm. Warwickshire
March 14, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Busy frogs last night. There was only one clump of #frogspawn at 7 pm. Warwickshire
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wcwd.substack.com/p/its-at-the... - great story, eloquently explained by @graceblakeley.bsky.social Having visited and ‘advised’ on Middlewick it deserves protecting. That means SSSI notification. There is no better legal mechanism to protect wildlife sites.
"It's at the heart of the community"
How local environmentalists built a winning campaign to save a much-loved nautral space.
wcwd.substack.com
March 12, 2025 at 9:23 PM
wcwd.substack.com/p/its-at-the... - great story, eloquently explained by @graceblakeley.bsky.social Having visited and ‘advised’ on Middlewick it deserves protecting. That means SSSI notification. There is no better legal mechanism to protect wildlife sites.
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📣ARTIST OPPORTUNITY
Open call for artists to apply to make new work for the exhibition Living Labyrinths: Art and Fungi 🍄 We're looking for work that breaks down boundaries + engages with scientific concepts through a lens of critically engaged art.
Deadline 28 Apr. Apply: ramm.uk/artist-oppor...
Open call for artists to apply to make new work for the exhibition Living Labyrinths: Art and Fungi 🍄 We're looking for work that breaks down boundaries + engages with scientific concepts through a lens of critically engaged art.
Deadline 28 Apr. Apply: ramm.uk/artist-oppor...
March 3, 2025 at 12:10 PM
📣ARTIST OPPORTUNITY
Open call for artists to apply to make new work for the exhibition Living Labyrinths: Art and Fungi 🍄 We're looking for work that breaks down boundaries + engages with scientific concepts through a lens of critically engaged art.
Deadline 28 Apr. Apply: ramm.uk/artist-oppor...
Open call for artists to apply to make new work for the exhibition Living Labyrinths: Art and Fungi 🍄 We're looking for work that breaks down boundaries + engages with scientific concepts through a lens of critically engaged art.
Deadline 28 Apr. Apply: ramm.uk/artist-oppor...
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(🧵) How Elon Musk betrayed America: a thread from a Musk biographer and former federal criminal investigator.
Please share widely, here and elsewhere. This will be long.
Author bio: www.sethabramson.net/bio
Latest book: sethabramson.substack.com/p/proof-of-d...
Please share widely, here and elsewhere. This will be long.
Author bio: www.sethabramson.net/bio
Latest book: sethabramson.substack.com/p/proof-of-d...
March 4, 2025 at 12:17 AM
(🧵) How Elon Musk betrayed America: a thread from a Musk biographer and former federal criminal investigator.
Please share widely, here and elsewhere. This will be long.
Author bio: www.sethabramson.net/bio
Latest book: sethabramson.substack.com/p/proof-of-d...
Please share widely, here and elsewhere. This will be long.
Author bio: www.sethabramson.net/bio
Latest book: sethabramson.substack.com/p/proof-of-d...
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This is unbelievably and horribly shocking.
280 million acres = 1.13 million square kilometres, which is:
11.5% of the USA
33% of USA's forest cover
64-91% of USA’s national forest + protected public land area (exact figure depending on how much protected public land is also national forest)
280 million acres = 1.13 million square kilometres, which is:
11.5% of the USA
33% of USA's forest cover
64-91% of USA’s national forest + protected public land area (exact figure depending on how much protected public land is also national forest)
And now this…👇
Angry yet?!
This. Once. Great. Country. Is. Weeping. ✨
Angry yet?!
This. Once. Great. Country. Is. Weeping. ✨
March 4, 2025 at 6:20 PM
This is unbelievably and horribly shocking.
280 million acres = 1.13 million square kilometres, which is:
11.5% of the USA
33% of USA's forest cover
64-91% of USA’s national forest + protected public land area (exact figure depending on how much protected public land is also national forest)
280 million acres = 1.13 million square kilometres, which is:
11.5% of the USA
33% of USA's forest cover
64-91% of USA’s national forest + protected public land area (exact figure depending on how much protected public land is also national forest)
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Invitation to tender: Saving Scotland’s Rainforest impact reporting. We are looking for an experienced communications specialist to help us tell the story of the impact of the Saving Scotland’s Rainforest project. Apply now! savingscotlandsrainforest.org.uk/jobs/communi...
Communications Specialist — Alliance for Scotland’s Rainforest
Invitation to tender for an exciting project helping us show the impact of our work with Scotland's rainforest.
savingscotlandsrainforest.org.uk
March 5, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Invitation to tender: Saving Scotland’s Rainforest impact reporting. We are looking for an experienced communications specialist to help us tell the story of the impact of the Saving Scotland’s Rainforest project. Apply now! savingscotlandsrainforest.org.uk/jobs/communi...
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The happy lichenologist at a community event. Photos courtesy of Tina Knowles Photography
March 5, 2025 at 9:16 AM
The happy lichenologist at a community event. Photos courtesy of Tina Knowles Photography
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Even happier at finding something new for me in the Community Orchard, Nectriopsis physiicola
March 5, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Even happier at finding something new for me in the Community Orchard, Nectriopsis physiicola
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#lichenGBI Another #lichenicolous fungus This one is supposedly mostly coastal, but was found 25 miles inland, on Xanthoria parietina, on a branch fallen from an Ash. Midsomer Norton, Somerset. Surprising spores with 3 septa in a black apothecium. britishlichensociety.org.uk/sites/defaul...
February 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM
#lichenGBI Another #lichenicolous fungus This one is supposedly mostly coastal, but was found 25 miles inland, on Xanthoria parietina, on a branch fallen from an Ash. Midsomer Norton, Somerset. Surprising spores with 3 septa in a black apothecium. britishlichensociety.org.uk/sites/defaul...