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Meg Moss
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Mushroom Botherer 🍄📷 From Wales, based in South East UK

All photos taken by me, unless it's a repost! Some on my Canon DSLR, some on my phone.
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Stinkhorn. Smelled it before I saw it! They really are quite stinky... Super fun to actually see one IRL though, despite the scent of rotting meat. I wish I'd had my nice camera with me, but alas, just a phone photo.

#FungiFriends #Mushrooms #Mycology #Mycography #NaturePhotography #Nature
A white stinkhorn mushroom covered in flies. You can see a holly bush in the background, and the floor is covered in autumnal leaf litter.
November 3, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Trying to instil a love of spiders in my little ones has been a challenge against a backdrop of cultural fear of them, but I'm getting there I think! They're so beautiful and beneficial. Here's one of my most recent photos 🕷️🕸️

#Arachtober #Spider #NaturePhotography #MacroPhotography #Photography
October 15, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Underside of a Blushing Bracket. I love the shapes and patterns in the pores!

#Mycography #Mycology #Mushroom #FungiFriends #NaturePhotography #MacroPhotography #Photography #Woods
October 14, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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Lovely little ladybird 🐞

#MacroPhotography #NaturePhotography #Photography #Entomology #Ladybird #Ladybug #Macro #SuperMacro #Nature #Bugs
October 13, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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A young milkcap at golden hour 🍄🌄

#FungiFriends #Mushroom #MacroPhotography #NaturePhotography #GoldenHour #Photography #Moss #Mycology #Mycography
October 10, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Look at those shiny wings! This is a flower fly, and it was very chill about letting me take it's photo.

#MacroPhotography #NaturePhotography #Photography #Insects #Flies #CloseUp #WingedWednesday #IDon'tThinkThat'sARealTagButItShouldBe 🪰
October 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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One from summer. I got a super-macro lens and flash kit for my birthday, so spent some time in the deep, dark woods getting up close and personal with ferns!

#MacroPhotography #NaturePhotography #Photography #Fern #PlantPhotography
October 6, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Finally managed to get out to the woods after a very busy conference season at work, and I wasn't disappointed. Found this beautiful amanita hiding in my regular amanita spot :) it was quite dark, so had to try and rescue it in post. The cap was blushing pink #FungiFriends #WalkInTheWoods #Mushroom
A close up of an amanita mushroom in the dark, dark woods. You can see the 'spots' on the cap, and leaves around the base. The top is a reddy-brown, and fades to white at the edges. The stem is white.
October 5, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Hello fuzzy little bumblebutt 🐝

#Photography #NaturePhotography #Bee #Flower #MacroPhotography #Nature #BuzzyBee
The fuzzy back end of a bumblebee as it sits on a flower gathering nectar and pollen. There are green stems and leaves in the background.
July 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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It's flipping hot here today, and nothing captures quite how I feel as much as this common wallflower, wilting in the heat.

#NaturePhotography #Flowers #Photography #MacroPhotography #Macro #Nature
A yellow flower, looking a little the worse for wear due to the hot weather. You can see other flower petals just behind it, and some in the background. It rests on a green stem, and there are more green stems behind as well.
June 30, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Happy #FungiFriday everyone! Loving this supremely witchy Amanita Fulva (Tawny Grisette) that I found power-posing on a tree stump in Sleepy Hollow. I've just found out that they're edible, although I don't normally mess with an Amanita.

#Mushrooms #Mycology #NaturePhotography #Photography #Woods
April 25, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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I've been walking in the woods every morning for the past couple of months, and I'm really valuing how much it's changed me - being consistent, getting exercise, surrounding myself with nature. It can be hard to fit it all in with kids and work, but it's been so worth doing. Spotted a Jay earlier!
April 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Here for #ThickTrunkTuesday with the bark on this tree. Just look at it. Mesmerising.

#Trees #Moss #Photography #NaturePhotography
The bark of a tree, covered in moss. The bark is unusual - covered in small lumps, bigger bumps, whorls, dips, and crannies.
April 8, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Happy #FungiFriday, mushroom botherers 🍄 this gorgeous little guy (Magpie Inkcap) has been nibbled on, but he still looks ever so charming popping up out of the leaves like that.

This was one of the pics in my first ever post

#Mushroom #Mycology #Mycography #Woodland
March 28, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Close up of three different mosses
March 22, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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So romantic 🥹 As a Moss, representing the Moss name, I can confirm that - as well as mushrooms - I do also love moss. There are some stunning mosses out there. So fluffy and squishy. I keep trying to propagate it in the lines between the paving slabs in my garden: no luck yet!

#FungiFriends #Moss
March 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Hey #FungiFriends! I found this yummy chanterelle, along with a huge number of others, in a location that I refuse to disclose just in case 😂 we've picked a basket full of these every summer for the last four years, and eaten them all buttery on their own. Splendid.

#Mycology #Foraging #Mushroom
A bright yellow chanterelle mushroom poking up out of some moss and leaves on the forest floor. The background is not in focus, but you can see a bit of blue sky and some leaves.
March 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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One of two Chicken of the Woods I've found so far. It was in a super-high-traffic area (perfect dog pee height) so I left it where it was 😆 The other one I found was too high up to reach, otherwise I'd have probably harvested some. Apparently is good eating.

#FungiFriends #Mushroom #Mycology #Photo
A yellow fungus (Chicken of the Woods) growing out of the top of a tree stump. Foliage in the background.
March 7, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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This was a genuinely magical moment in the Lake District: bumbling about not expecting to see any mushrooms but, lo! A gorgeous orange Deceiver prancing about the moss next to a tiny, babbling rivulet. I spent ages on this photo, much to my family's boredom.

#FungiFriends #Mushroom #Moss #Nature
An orange mushroom standing on a mossy bed next to a rivulet, in the woods. The sunlight is streaming through the trees to light up the mushroom and moss in a golden glow. You can see the blue sky through the trees. The picture is mostly green, with a little pop of orange mushroom.
March 4, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Showing up this week for #ThickTrunkTuesday with a beautiful, ancient Yew from Kingley Vale nr Chichester in the South of England. I'm utterly besotted with the bark on these glorious trees. Have included a husband for scale (he's 6'5", so yeah it's huge). You can eat the berries but not the seeds!
A huge, ancient Yew tree, with it's branches and roots spreading outward from it's trunk. You can see the blue sky and green leaves of other trees in the background. A man walks next to the tree to give a sense of its size - he is much smaller than the tree. A relatively close-up shot of a Yew tree, with smaller shoots of Yew growing up it. Above, you can see the sky through the branches. A close up of Yew bark, with lots of whorls and swirls in it in different colours - brown, blue, yellow, light green, dark green
March 4, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Hello #FungiFriends! Today's offering is (I'm pretty sure) Tricholomopsis Rutilans, or 'plums and custard'. Sounds yummy, but in actual fact it really isn't. I found this one in my favourite place, Angmering Park Estate 🍄🍂

#Mushrooms #Mycology #Mycography #NaturePhotography #Moss
March 3, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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This isn't a mushroom, Meg. What on earth is it?!

Glad you asked. I'm not 100% sure, but I /think/ it's either some kind of slime mold or mycelium. I tried doing a reverse image search but no joy. If anyone knows for sure, please let me know!

#FungiFriends #Mystery #SlimeMold #Mycelium #Mycology
February 28, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Hello #FungiFriends 🍄 is there a #WoodlandWednesday tag? I took this photo in some of my favourite woods for mushrooms near us - Angmering Park Estate. It's been the location of many of my favourite finds, including the magpie inkcap that was part of my first post.

#Mushrooms #NaturePhotography
February 26, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Having to go into London today, but wishing for the woods instead. Here's a photo I'm very proud of - the contrast where the sun hits the moss in an otherwise dark and gloomy woodland is really cool. If you look carefully in the dark bit you can see a sneaky little fly 🪰

#FungiFriends #Fungi #Moss
February 25, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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My kids had a sleepover at their grandparents last night, and I really miss them today! So here's a photo of a mummy mushroom and her LBM to soothe my sad little heart ❤️🍄 LBM = little baby mushroom, of course.

#FungiFriends #Mushrooms #Mycography #NaturePhotography #MacroPhotography
February 18, 2025 at 10:56 AM