Tim Holt-Wilson
@timholtwilson.bsky.social
The story of the Earth - geoconservation, museums, the poetry of things old & wild - based in East Anglia, UK.
https://futureheritage.wordpress.com/
https://futureheritage.wordpress.com/
Living on the chill frontier of autumn, a hoverfly Ectophasia sp. soaks up the falling year's offerings of daylight and nectar on Scentless Mayweed.
A springtail looks up at the gigantic aerial zoomer with whom it shares its lifeworld.
#Norfolk #diptera #biodiversity
A springtail looks up at the gigantic aerial zoomer with whom it shares its lifeworld.
#Norfolk #diptera #biodiversity
November 10, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Living on the chill frontier of autumn, a hoverfly Ectophasia sp. soaks up the falling year's offerings of daylight and nectar on Scentless Mayweed.
A springtail looks up at the gigantic aerial zoomer with whom it shares its lifeworld.
#Norfolk #diptera #biodiversity
A springtail looks up at the gigantic aerial zoomer with whom it shares its lifeworld.
#Norfolk #diptera #biodiversity
Don't look too closely what it's growing on, but this tiny, delicate fungus is creating an ethereal garden out of filth. Seen today at Feltwell, Norfolk. Can you put a name to it @ians4ad.bsky.social @britmycolsoc.org.uk?
November 8, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Don't look too closely what it's growing on, but this tiny, delicate fungus is creating an ethereal garden out of filth. Seen today at Feltwell, Norfolk. Can you put a name to it @ians4ad.bsky.social @britmycolsoc.org.uk?
Excrescence on over-fertilised arable soil, Peziza [vesiculosa] swells and fructifies, brews spores, awaiting rain.
West Norfolk #fungi @norfolknats.bsky.social
West Norfolk #fungi @norfolknats.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Excrescence on over-fertilised arable soil, Peziza [vesiculosa] swells and fructifies, brews spores, awaiting rain.
West Norfolk #fungi @norfolknats.bsky.social
West Norfolk #fungi @norfolknats.bsky.social
Crawling across my carpet (rather than the florets of an umbellifer). Fine punctuated patterning on its elytra.
Thanks Dr Ross Piper @suffolk-nats1929.bsky.social for identifying the leaf beetle Chrysolina oricalcia (Chrysomelidae) 'nationally scarce' but expanding its range. @colsocbi.bsky.social
Thanks Dr Ross Piper @suffolk-nats1929.bsky.social for identifying the leaf beetle Chrysolina oricalcia (Chrysomelidae) 'nationally scarce' but expanding its range. @colsocbi.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Crawling across my carpet (rather than the florets of an umbellifer). Fine punctuated patterning on its elytra.
Thanks Dr Ross Piper @suffolk-nats1929.bsky.social for identifying the leaf beetle Chrysolina oricalcia (Chrysomelidae) 'nationally scarce' but expanding its range. @colsocbi.bsky.social
Thanks Dr Ross Piper @suffolk-nats1929.bsky.social for identifying the leaf beetle Chrysolina oricalcia (Chrysomelidae) 'nationally scarce' but expanding its range. @colsocbi.bsky.social
Glad someone else loves beach shingle plants too :-)
November 6, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Glad someone else loves beach shingle plants too :-)
From a great height?
Eyes bigger than stomach?
Seen on the floor of a Norfolk chalk quarry, visual evidence that someone - bird or mammal - ate too many sloes. The result is a regurgitation too splendid to ignore.
#slowfood #fastfood #Prunus_spinosa #AutumnBounty
Eyes bigger than stomach?
Seen on the floor of a Norfolk chalk quarry, visual evidence that someone - bird or mammal - ate too many sloes. The result is a regurgitation too splendid to ignore.
#slowfood #fastfood #Prunus_spinosa #AutumnBounty
November 5, 2025 at 8:38 PM
From a great height?
Eyes bigger than stomach?
Seen on the floor of a Norfolk chalk quarry, visual evidence that someone - bird or mammal - ate too many sloes. The result is a regurgitation too splendid to ignore.
#slowfood #fastfood #Prunus_spinosa #AutumnBounty
Eyes bigger than stomach?
Seen on the floor of a Norfolk chalk quarry, visual evidence that someone - bird or mammal - ate too many sloes. The result is a regurgitation too splendid to ignore.
#slowfood #fastfood #Prunus_spinosa #AutumnBounty
A Raven passed over the Bungalow garden last week, heading south.
Did it see me wave? I doubt much escapes their acute attention.
Did it see me wave? I doubt much escapes their acute attention.
November 1, 2025 at 7:18 PM
A Raven passed over the Bungalow garden last week, heading south.
Did it see me wave? I doubt much escapes their acute attention.
Did it see me wave? I doubt much escapes their acute attention.
My entry to this world was 'Living Lights. A popular account of phosphorescent animals & vegetables' by Charles Holder, London, 1887. When I was 10 my aged headmaster caught me at the top of a wooden ladder in the library reading this book. He gave it to me - probably his when a boy in the 1890s.
October 30, 2025 at 1:12 PM
My entry to this world was 'Living Lights. A popular account of phosphorescent animals & vegetables' by Charles Holder, London, 1887. When I was 10 my aged headmaster caught me at the top of a wooden ladder in the library reading this book. He gave it to me - probably his when a boy in the 1890s.
I think this dandelion is too.
October 30, 2025 at 9:10 AM
I think this dandelion is too.
Good one!
I am not tidying away the last tardy floral tributes to Summer just yet, in case some insects need a final Autumn pit-stop.
I am not tidying away the last tardy floral tributes to Summer just yet, in case some insects need a final Autumn pit-stop.
October 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Good one!
I am not tidying away the last tardy floral tributes to Summer just yet, in case some insects need a final Autumn pit-stop.
I am not tidying away the last tardy floral tributes to Summer just yet, in case some insects need a final Autumn pit-stop.
A Supreme Court judgment yesterday has upheld the Habitats Regulations – confirming that public authorities must assess potential harm to protected wildlife sites at all stages of the planning process. Read the statement: ow.ly/pCJZ50XgLVO #biodiversity #conservation
October 23, 2025 at 10:12 PM
A Supreme Court judgment yesterday has upheld the Habitats Regulations – confirming that public authorities must assess potential harm to protected wildlife sites at all stages of the planning process. Read the statement: ow.ly/pCJZ50XgLVO #biodiversity #conservation
This one poss Hermaniella sp.?
October 23, 2025 at 4:33 PM
This one poss Hermaniella sp.?
A miniscule subfossil creature (0.2 mm) in my sediment sample from East Harling @norfolkponds.bsky.social. Must be a detritivorous oribatid mite - one of the little things that run the world. Who studies them @danhoare.bsky.social @vannabartlett.bsky.social?
October 23, 2025 at 7:13 AM
A miniscule subfossil creature (0.2 mm) in my sediment sample from East Harling @norfolkponds.bsky.social. Must be a detritivorous oribatid mite - one of the little things that run the world. Who studies them @danhoare.bsky.social @vannabartlett.bsky.social?
"It is tempting to lay much of the blame for this situation on LPAs for not taking enforcement action against non-compliant developments. ... Monitoring rarely happens, as most enforcement teams do not have the resources ... LA budgets have been subject to swingeing cuts over the last 15 years ..."
October 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
"It is tempting to lay much of the blame for this situation on LPAs for not taking enforcement action against non-compliant developments. ... Monitoring rarely happens, as most enforcement teams do not have the resources ... LA budgets have been subject to swingeing cuts over the last 15 years ..."
Who will hold their feet to the fire through planning enforcement?
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social - No chance.
@greenparty.org.uk - Yes, given a chance.
@conservatives.bsky.social - They had their chance.
@libdems.org.uk - Might, given a chance.
Reform Party - Load of old cobblers, innit?
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social - No chance.
@greenparty.org.uk - Yes, given a chance.
@conservatives.bsky.social - They had their chance.
@libdems.org.uk - Might, given a chance.
Reform Party - Load of old cobblers, innit?
October 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Who will hold their feet to the fire through planning enforcement?
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social - No chance.
@greenparty.org.uk - Yes, given a chance.
@conservatives.bsky.social - They had their chance.
@libdems.org.uk - Might, given a chance.
Reform Party - Load of old cobblers, innit?
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social - No chance.
@greenparty.org.uk - Yes, given a chance.
@conservatives.bsky.social - They had their chance.
@libdems.org.uk - Might, given a chance.
Reform Party - Load of old cobblers, innit?
Good things going on in the USA.
#resistance
#resistance
October 20, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Good things going on in the USA.
#resistance
#resistance
Using good books with lively illustrations based on museum specimens, I expect.
#oceans #marine #biodiversity #bioluminescence
#oceans #marine #biodiversity #bioluminescence
October 20, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Using good books with lively illustrations based on museum specimens, I expect.
#oceans #marine #biodiversity #bioluminescence
#oceans #marine #biodiversity #bioluminescence
Cranial punk
Green beast headjog
Datura ripens in the sun
Spike rind and seed
Waylays some unfortunate
Witless consumer
Stramonium poets
Sing of apple and thorn
The terrible caput
Which peppers a field
A pharmakon
Of healing or delirium
#Gothtober
@philippa.bsky.social
Green beast headjog
Datura ripens in the sun
Spike rind and seed
Waylays some unfortunate
Witless consumer
Stramonium poets
Sing of apple and thorn
The terrible caput
Which peppers a field
A pharmakon
Of healing or delirium
#Gothtober
@philippa.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Cranial punk
Green beast headjog
Datura ripens in the sun
Spike rind and seed
Waylays some unfortunate
Witless consumer
Stramonium poets
Sing of apple and thorn
The terrible caput
Which peppers a field
A pharmakon
Of healing or delirium
#Gothtober
@philippa.bsky.social
Green beast headjog
Datura ripens in the sun
Spike rind and seed
Waylays some unfortunate
Witless consumer
Stramonium poets
Sing of apple and thorn
The terrible caput
Which peppers a field
A pharmakon
Of healing or delirium
#Gothtober
@philippa.bsky.social
As pockmarked as pikelets, these crumpet cowpats are signs that invertebrate life is at home in this North Norfolk pasture land.
When young, I used to turn them over to see what was inside and was rarely disappointed by the fat worms 🪱 and larvae revealed.
#invertebrates #biodiversity #pesticides
When young, I used to turn them over to see what was inside and was rarely disappointed by the fat worms 🪱 and larvae revealed.
#invertebrates #biodiversity #pesticides
October 15, 2025 at 7:32 PM
As pockmarked as pikelets, these crumpet cowpats are signs that invertebrate life is at home in this North Norfolk pasture land.
When young, I used to turn them over to see what was inside and was rarely disappointed by the fat worms 🪱 and larvae revealed.
#invertebrates #biodiversity #pesticides
When young, I used to turn them over to see what was inside and was rarely disappointed by the fat worms 🪱 and larvae revealed.
#invertebrates #biodiversity #pesticides
Who will get a grip of meeting and balancing the needs of both humans and biodiversity?
#BiodiversityCrisis
Would people buy new houses which have settings in which nature is allowed to autogenerate & build richness on its own terms? Forgetting landscape architects who choose shrubs & lay turf.
#BiodiversityCrisis
Would people buy new houses which have settings in which nature is allowed to autogenerate & build richness on its own terms? Forgetting landscape architects who choose shrubs & lay turf.
October 13, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Who will get a grip of meeting and balancing the needs of both humans and biodiversity?
#BiodiversityCrisis
Would people buy new houses which have settings in which nature is allowed to autogenerate & build richness on its own terms? Forgetting landscape architects who choose shrubs & lay turf.
#BiodiversityCrisis
Would people buy new houses which have settings in which nature is allowed to autogenerate & build richness on its own terms? Forgetting landscape architects who choose shrubs & lay turf.
Mosaic scrub land at Cringleford, Norwich is ear-marked for housing development. It is vibrant with life: goldfinches, bushes & berries, ivy bees humming round nest holes.
Across the road, the flail mower has thrashed all this life to the ground. What value do we put on urban fringe biodiversity?
Across the road, the flail mower has thrashed all this life to the ground. What value do we put on urban fringe biodiversity?
October 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Mosaic scrub land at Cringleford, Norwich is ear-marked for housing development. It is vibrant with life: goldfinches, bushes & berries, ivy bees humming round nest holes.
Across the road, the flail mower has thrashed all this life to the ground. What value do we put on urban fringe biodiversity?
Across the road, the flail mower has thrashed all this life to the ground. What value do we put on urban fringe biodiversity?
Or an entire Mastodon skeleton, as said to have been found in the Norwich Crag basement bed at Horstead in the early C19th. Seen here, the basement bed at St James's Pit, Norwich.
October 13, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Or an entire Mastodon skeleton, as said to have been found in the Norwich Crag basement bed at Horstead in the early C19th. Seen here, the basement bed at St James's Pit, Norwich.
October 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM