Simon Harding
@simon-ontheverge.bsky.social
Wildlife curious nature nerd, Fungi, Botany, Bugs, Birds and Stuff. Wildlife gardening. Looking forward to having more time
48 LNRSs in England — most ignore fungi. Ecological recovery without fungi is a broken promise.
Fungi are essential components of biodiversity. Without them, 30x30 will fail. Does your council plan to fail? #FungiFriends #Fungi #Mycology #Naturalist
👉 Find your LNRS here: www.gov.uk/government/p...
Fungi are essential components of biodiversity. Without them, 30x30 will fail. Does your council plan to fail? #FungiFriends #Fungi #Mycology #Naturalist
👉 Find your LNRS here: www.gov.uk/government/p...
Local nature recovery strategies: areas and responsible authorities
Map showing the local nature recovery strategy (LNRS) areas in England and the responsible authority who will lead the preparation of each strategy.
www.gov.uk
November 19, 2025 at 8:15 AM
48 LNRSs in England — most ignore fungi. Ecological recovery without fungi is a broken promise.
Fungi are essential components of biodiversity. Without them, 30x30 will fail. Does your council plan to fail? #FungiFriends #Fungi #Mycology #Naturalist
👉 Find your LNRS here: www.gov.uk/government/p...
Fungi are essential components of biodiversity. Without them, 30x30 will fail. Does your council plan to fail? #FungiFriends #Fungi #Mycology #Naturalist
👉 Find your LNRS here: www.gov.uk/government/p...
Mosaic puffball on Exmoor grassland
#FungiFriends #Fungi #Mycology #Mushrooms #UKNature #UKNaturalist #Wildlife
#FungiFriends #Fungi #Mycology #Mushrooms #UKNature #UKNaturalist #Wildlife
November 18, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Mosaic puffball on Exmoor grassland
#FungiFriends #Fungi #Mycology #Mushrooms #UKNature #UKNaturalist #Wildlife
#FungiFriends #Fungi #Mycology #Mushrooms #UKNature #UKNaturalist #Wildlife
Entoloma atromadidum, sequenced find from a Cotswold Common. One of the Big Blue Pinkgill group that contains species yet to be determined. #FungiFriends #Mycology #Fungi #Mushrooms #UKWildlife #Naturalist #Nature
November 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Entoloma atromadidum, sequenced find from a Cotswold Common. One of the Big Blue Pinkgill group that contains species yet to be determined. #FungiFriends #Mycology #Fungi #Mushrooms #UKWildlife #Naturalist #Nature
Gliophorus psittacinus - Parrot Waxcap for Mushroom Monday. Love the way these so often blend in with their surroundings so well you can hardly find them until their age gives them away #FungiFriends #Fungi #Mushrooms #UKWildlife #Naturalist #Mycology #Nature #Naturalist
November 17, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Gliophorus psittacinus - Parrot Waxcap for Mushroom Monday. Love the way these so often blend in with their surroundings so well you can hardly find them until their age gives them away #FungiFriends #Fungi #Mushrooms #UKWildlife #Naturalist #Mycology #Nature #Naturalist
Cotswold grazed grassland was where I saw this chunky little Cordyceps militaris recently #Fungi #Mushrooms #Mycology #UKNaturalist #Wildlife #FungiFriends
November 17, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Cotswold grazed grassland was where I saw this chunky little Cordyceps militaris recently #Fungi #Mushrooms #Mycology #UKNaturalist #Wildlife #FungiFriends
Lovely find
Waxcap 35 - Slender Waxcap (Cuphophyllus radiatus). Similar to Yellowfoot but no yellowing to the more slender stipe and stronger striations in the cap. Quite small and hard to spot.
November 17, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Lovely find
Monday #Mushroom added to the English list last week and one to look out for at the moment, Clavaria calabrica. Looking a bit like Clavaria fumosa but with “dividing fingers”, the texture is more wax crayon like than C. fumosa. #FungiFriends #Naturalist #Mycology #Fungi #UKWildlife
November 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Monday #Mushroom added to the English list last week and one to look out for at the moment, Clavaria calabrica. Looking a bit like Clavaria fumosa but with “dividing fingers”, the texture is more wax crayon like than C. fumosa. #FungiFriends #Naturalist #Mycology #Fungi #UKWildlife
A different location than last week for Clustered Bellflower on a Minchinhampton Common today #WildflowerHour
November 9, 2025 at 2:55 PM
A different location than last week for Clustered Bellflower on a Minchinhampton Common today #WildflowerHour
Harebell in the mist on Minchinhampton Common today
Early submission for #WildflowerHour as I’ll be busy later
Early submission for #WildflowerHour as I’ll be busy later
November 9, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Harebell in the mist on Minchinhampton Common today
Early submission for #WildflowerHour as I’ll be busy later
Early submission for #WildflowerHour as I’ll be busy later
Reposted by Simon Harding
My first book RHS Fungi for Gardeners is out now!
Such an amazing opportunity to write for RHS and with such fantastic publishers as DK.
Better yet is that doing it enabled me to get my own compound microscope 🤩🍄
Check how the hyphae bend out at 90° on Mycena leptocephala stems
#fungifriends
Such an amazing opportunity to write for RHS and with such fantastic publishers as DK.
Better yet is that doing it enabled me to get my own compound microscope 🤩🍄
Check how the hyphae bend out at 90° on Mycena leptocephala stems
#fungifriends
October 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
My first book RHS Fungi for Gardeners is out now!
Such an amazing opportunity to write for RHS and with such fantastic publishers as DK.
Better yet is that doing it enabled me to get my own compound microscope 🤩🍄
Check how the hyphae bend out at 90° on Mycena leptocephala stems
#fungifriends
Such an amazing opportunity to write for RHS and with such fantastic publishers as DK.
Better yet is that doing it enabled me to get my own compound microscope 🤩🍄
Check how the hyphae bend out at 90° on Mycena leptocephala stems
#fungifriends
Think this is Clustered Bellflower - Campanula glomerata I saw yesterday, not large plants, not much clustering going on… and quite late in the year. Not recorded in the area for a while #WildflowerHour sorry it’s a bit late 😀 Oh and a late Autumn Gentian from Minchinhampton last wk (diff location).
November 3, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Think this is Clustered Bellflower - Campanula glomerata I saw yesterday, not large plants, not much clustering going on… and quite late in the year. Not recorded in the area for a while #WildflowerHour sorry it’s a bit late 😀 Oh and a late Autumn Gentian from Minchinhampton last wk (diff location).
Reposted by Simon Harding
Protecting Waxcaps: All the Losses We Cannot See. Britain’s waxcap grasslands are considered to be some of the best in Europe....
www.plantlife.org.uk/protecting-w...
www.plantlife.org.uk/protecting-w...
Protecting Waxcaps: All the Losses We Cannot See… - Plantlife
Britain’s waxcap grasslands are considered to be the best in Europe. Discover the pressures these colourful fungi and their habitats face...
www.plantlife.org.uk
October 28, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Protecting Waxcaps: All the Losses We Cannot See. Britain’s waxcap grasslands are considered to be some of the best in Europe....
www.plantlife.org.uk/protecting-w...
www.plantlife.org.uk/protecting-w...
The lovely sky was worth braving the chill wind on Minchinhampton Common today
October 25, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The lovely sky was worth braving the chill wind on Minchinhampton Common today
Toasted Waxcap - Cuphophyllus colemannianus are up on some of the Cotswold Commons #Fungifriends #Fungi #Mushrooms #UKNature #Naturalist #Wildlife
October 25, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Toasted Waxcap - Cuphophyllus colemannianus are up on some of the Cotswold Commons #Fungifriends #Fungi #Mushrooms #UKNature #Naturalist #Wildlife
Big blue Pinkgills are out now, these are most likely Entoloma bloxamii s. str. I saw on a Cotswold Common #Fungi #Fungifriends #Mushrooms #UKWildlife
October 24, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Big blue Pinkgills are out now, these are most likely Entoloma bloxamii s. str. I saw on a Cotswold Common #Fungi #Fungifriends #Mushrooms #UKWildlife
Reposted by Simon Harding
.@cmarin.bsky.social and 127 co-authors present a global call to strengthen national #SoilBiodiversity action, in an #OpenLetter to policymakers at 27th meeting of the @unbiodiversity.bsky.social SBSTTA taking place in Panamá City this week.
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#SBSTTA27
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#SBSTTA27
October 20, 2025 at 12:27 PM
.@cmarin.bsky.social and 127 co-authors present a global call to strengthen national #SoilBiodiversity action, in an #OpenLetter to policymakers at 27th meeting of the @unbiodiversity.bsky.social SBSTTA taking place in Panamá City this week.
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#SBSTTA27
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#SBSTTA27
Stopped for coffee and was transported to another world: Poznan
October 20, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Stopped for coffee and was transported to another world: Poznan
Autumn Gentian on Minchinhampton Common.. possibly the last of the year in flower on Sunday
October 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Autumn Gentian on Minchinhampton Common.. possibly the last of the year in flower on Sunday
Had a very blowy return from a trip to Croatia yesterday.. then the Uber had a blow out in heavy rain on the M56 which took 2 hours to fix… but it was worth it all 😂
October 5, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Had a very blowy return from a trip to Croatia yesterday.. then the Uber had a blow out in heavy rain on the M56 which took 2 hours to fix… but it was worth it all 😂
Entoloma neglectum from a Cotswold Common. There are around 17 British records including duplicates since 1800 to date so this sequenced find is quite rare #Fungifriends #Fungi #Mycology #Nature #UKWildlife
October 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Entoloma neglectum from a Cotswold Common. There are around 17 British records including duplicates since 1800 to date so this sequenced find is quite rare #Fungifriends #Fungi #Mycology #Nature #UKWildlife
Finally got around to sequencing a Big Blue Pinkgill from Bodmin 2018 which revealed it as Entoloma madidum. One of the rarer species in the E. bloxamii group.
#FungiFriends #Fungi #Mushrooms #UKWildlife #Nature
#FungiFriends #Fungi #Mushrooms #UKWildlife #Nature
October 2, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Finally got around to sequencing a Big Blue Pinkgill from Bodmin 2018 which revealed it as Entoloma madidum. One of the rarer species in the E. bloxamii group.
#FungiFriends #Fungi #Mushrooms #UKWildlife #Nature
#FungiFriends #Fungi #Mushrooms #UKWildlife #Nature
5:22am this morning and the bats were still over my wildlife garden. (Obligatory rescue cat demanding food as they do).
August 14, 2025 at 7:39 PM
5:22am this morning and the bats were still over my wildlife garden. (Obligatory rescue cat demanding food as they do).
Pseudoinonotus dryadeus - Oak Bracket will be showing itself any time now until the season end. Image from a few years ago around this time of year. #FungiFriends #Fungi #Mycology #Nature #Mushrooms
August 9, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Pseudoinonotus dryadeus - Oak Bracket will be showing itself any time now until the season end. Image from a few years ago around this time of year. #FungiFriends #Fungi #Mycology #Nature #Mushrooms
Reposted by Simon Harding
This week’s challenge is #PollinatorPals! Find a flowering wild or naturalised plant with a pollinating visitor & snap away. Of course it’s not just about bees! Butterflies, moths, wasps, flies & beetles can all be #pollinators too! Share your pics for #Wildflowerhour this Sunday 8-9pm!
August 7, 2025 at 7:17 AM
This week’s challenge is #PollinatorPals! Find a flowering wild or naturalised plant with a pollinating visitor & snap away. Of course it’s not just about bees! Butterflies, moths, wasps, flies & beetles can all be #pollinators too! Share your pics for #Wildflowerhour this Sunday 8-9pm!
Volvariella bombycina - Silky Rosegill on a large fallen oak today #Fungi
#FungiFriends #Fungi #Nature #Mycology #Mushrooms
#FungiFriends #Fungi #Nature #Mycology #Mushrooms
August 6, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Volvariella bombycina - Silky Rosegill on a large fallen oak today #Fungi
#FungiFriends #Fungi #Nature #Mycology #Mushrooms
#FungiFriends #Fungi #Nature #Mycology #Mushrooms