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Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social · 2h

Looks like a Hoof Fungus - Fomes fomentarius

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The Wee Owl Art (Scotland) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @theweeowl.bsky.social · 3h

My art shop has a selection of my original mushroom art, including these ones and some have been reduced in price, visit my shop to see my mushroom collection...
folksy.com/shops/thewee...

#Mushrooms #FungiFriday #OriginalArt #Drawing #Painting #Artwork #TraditionalArtist #bsnm #sale

A photo collage of some of my mushroom artwork:
A cluster of yellow mushrooms, fly agaric with berries, slender parasols, fly agaric in a woodland setting, indigo milk caps and penny buns with clover.

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Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social · 6h

It's always tricky at this early stage. I wouldn't worry too much about soil types. These are often preferences rather than requirements

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Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social · 7h

Nature book challenge. A book per day in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews.
#Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky #MycoBookClub #FungiFriday

José Manuel Castro Marcote

Guía de setas dunares

Descripción de un sistema dunar completo 80 fichas de setas

Macro- y microfotografias a todo color

Observaciones de todas las especies

EllagoEdiciones

Jacques Guinberteau

LE PETIT LIVRE DES CHAMPIGNONS DES DUNES

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Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social · 7h

#MycoBookClub

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Biodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 10h

🗿 Illustrations of British Fungi (Hymenomycetes), to serve as an atlas to the "Handbook of British Fungi"..
LondonWilliams and Norgate1881-91.

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Ancient illustration from historical archives

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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 22h

The Aberdeen Bestiary, One of the Great Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts, Now Digitized in High Resolution & Made Available Online

For thousands of years, ordinary people all over the world not only worked side-by-side with domestic animals on a daily basis, they also observed the wild fauna around them to learn how to navigate a...

www.openculture.com

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Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social · 22h

Absolutely! There's really no need to do anything this time of year except add a few more woodchips

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Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social · 1d

The overuse of herbicides in Birmingham is crazy. This guy had just finished spraying in the wood chip bed behind him (weeds are suppressed by the wood chips - that's what they're for!), and not much is going to survive the winter, so it's a complete waste of resources @brumgreens.bsky.social

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MBA Library @nmbluk.bsky.social · 1d

It's #NautilusNight!

To shell-ebrate we have this beautiful illustration of the shell of the chambered nautilus, taken from an 18th Century book on shells by GW Knorr

hand coloured illustration of a nautilus. The top illustration shows the shell in full, and the bottom illustration shows a slice of the shell and the chmabers within.

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Ian Senior @ians4ad.bsky.social · 1d

"For conservation, our results mean that protecting #orchids in the wild is inseparable from protecting #deadwood and its #fungi. .... And they show that deadwood is not dead—it is a cradle of new life." 📷🍄
phys.org/news/2025-10...

Deadwood brings wild orchids to life: Study uncovers important carbon flux in the ecosystem

Orchid seeds are as small as dust and do not provide any nutrients for the young plant to grow. The adult plants are known to rely on a certain type of fungi that develop structures within the plant's...

phys.org

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Lizzie Harper Illustrator @lizzie-harper.bsky.social · 1d

Had a excellent weekend painting a #botanicalillustration of a penny bun #boletus edulis #Fungi & a Rosy button one, and chatting to Fungitown visitors in Hay. My mate filmed me at work in a borrowed (appropriately themed) shirt. #sciart

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Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social · 1d

Nature book challenge. A book per day in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews.
#Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky #MycoBookClub

Riccardo Mazza

Gli odori e i sapori dei Funghi = The smells and flavours of mushrooms

Mykonolexikon 3

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Veeloxxy Bites @the-episiarch.bsky.social · 1d

Tired: Labubus
Wired: Labouls
Laboulbeniales are a group of fungi that live on the carapace of insects. One species - Rickia wasmannii - lives on ants, and they make their host less aggressive, especially towards other laboul-infect ants
#Invertebrate
dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2023/04/rick...

<i>Rickia wasmannii </i>

Rickia wasmannii is a fungus that lives on ants, and when it comes to ants and fungi most people usually think of Ophiocordyceps , i.e. the...

dailyparasite.blogspot.com

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MIA: Japanese and Korean Art (Bot) @miajapankorea.bsky.social · 2d

A Man of Noble Character Views a Waterfall https://collections.artsmia.org/art/116372/

cream colored carton with tan stripes; wooden box with inscription on inside and outside of lid; wrapped in tissue; paper around scroll inside of tie; fabric is yellow; rollers are white porcelain with blue detail; image of a waterfall on the left with text on the right, building LL

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Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social · 2d

Birmingham's terrible public transport effectively shrinks the city to around 900k at peak times, well below Manchester even www.citymonitor.ai/analysis/bir...

“Birmingham isn’t a big city at peak times”: How poor public transport explains the UK’s productivity puzzle - CityMonitor

For a year now, the Open Data Institute Leeds has been tracking most of the buses and trams in the…

www.citymonitor.ai

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University of Exeter Special Collections @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social · 2d

Good morning to everyone but especially to all the octopuses, for today is their special day!

To celebrate World Octopus Day, here's an illustration of an octopus from the book 'The World of the Sea' by Moquin Tandon, published in 1869.

📷 Reserve 591.92 TAN

#WorldOctopusDay #OctopusDay #RareBooks

Cropped image showing an engraving of an octopus

Full-page engraving from a book. It shows an octopus lying on the seabed, with a squid and a cuttlefish coming towards. The cuttlefish is making a cloud. The engraving is captioned: 'Plate XI. A Poulpe. A Cuttle-Fish Making His Cloud. A Calmar'.

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GOTHICA 🦇 @gothicauob.bsky.social · 2d

It's officially spooky szn! 👻

We're back 😈

🎮 Video Game Gothic
🗣 Dr Efram Sera-Shriar
📆 Thurs 23rd Oct
🕔 5pm (BST)
📍Zoom

Efram is an Associate Professor at University of Copenhagen. He is currently working on representations of occulture in video games from late 70s & and mid-90s.

DM to join 👾

A dark event poster titled "Gothica: Video Game Gothic" with Dr. Efram Sera-Shriar.
Red text and dripping blood adorn the upper part.
Below is pixel art scenery depicting a gothic landscape with a skull and horns.
Event details show a Zoom session on Thursday, 23rd October, from 5:00 to 6:30 pm BST.
Contact @uobgothica@gmail.com

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old wildlife illustrations @wildlife.nathan.fun · 2d

Atlas des champignons comestibles et vénéneux Paris, P. Klincksieck, 1891. (source: http://biodiversitylibrary.org/item/22673) #nature #illustration #art

Atlas des champignons comestibles et vénéneux
Paris, P. Klincksieck, 1891.
http://biodiversitylibrary.org/item/22673�

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Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social · 2d

#MycoBookClub

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 2d

Day 7 #Invertober2025 - Scaly foot gastropod (Chrysomallon squamiferum) 🐌

SNAIL. BYE.

#SciArt #invertebrates

semi-realistic drawing of a Scaly foot gastropod, a very fancy black shiny shelled snail with a red soft body but it is covered in little black scales, on a black background.

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Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social · 2d

Nature book challenge. A book per day in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews.
#Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky
#MycoBookClub

Collins Guide to MUSHROOMS & TOADSTOOLS

By Morten Lange & F. Bayard Hora

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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 3d

We're going a bit batty in celebration of #BatAppreciationMonth. Archibald Thorburn's "British Mammals" (1920-1921) contains some of our favorite bat #SciArt in #BHLib. Check it out thanks to #FieldMuseum
➡️ www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48418555 #BatMonth 🦇 🧪

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 3d

#OnThisDay in 1849, Edgar Allan Poe passed away under mysterious circumstances. Of all the artists who gave life to Poe's macabre tales over the years, perhaps none captured them quite so brilliantly as the Irish artist Harry Clarke: publicdomainreview.org/collection/h... #OTD #EdgarAllanPoe

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 3d

From James Sowerby's Coloured Figures of English Fungi or Mushrooms, published in three volumes between 1797 and 1809.

Illustration is a detailed scientific illustration of a type of cup fungus, specifically identified by the text as Peziza coccinea (now known as Sarcoscypha coccinea or the scarlet elfcup) and Peziza epidendra. The illustration shows several specimens of the fungus at different stages of growth and from various angles. The fungi are depicted with vibrant red interiors and white exteriors, growing on a piece of dead wood.

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