Rob Yaxley
@robyaxley.bsky.social
Naturalist: lichens, moths, beetles, bugs and anything else that catches my eye. “What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.”
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Got the first record for Carmarthenshire in
October. I found this paper about its distribution to be interesting so thought it worth a share
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October. I found this paper about its distribution to be interesting so thought it worth a share
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Invasion of the Orange Ping-Pong Bats: the rapidly changing distribution of Favolaschia calocera
www.sciencedirect.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Got the first record for Carmarthenshire in
October. I found this paper about its distribution to be interesting so thought it worth a share
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October. I found this paper about its distribution to be interesting so thought it worth a share
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Wanted list…
I thought it would be a few more years before I would encounter this species in my neck of the proverbial woods. Orange Porecap (Favolaschia claudopus) - a non-native species originally from Madagascar - at Chaddesden Wood LNR, Derby
November 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Wanted list…
Apparently it’s Melanelixia glabratula Monday. Niche but nice…
November 24, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Apparently it’s Melanelixia glabratula Monday. Niche but nice…
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Time-lapse of tide coming in at Mucking Creek - note how it doesn't just come in, going up and down, and couple of surges come in too
November 23, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Time-lapse of tide coming in at Mucking Creek - note how it doesn't just come in, going up and down, and couple of surges come in too
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Oooh, er, Missus. Coastal erosion porn at the remarkable Easton Woods in Suffolk - where trees literally drop over the edge on a daily basis. Southwold in the distance.
November 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Oooh, er, Missus. Coastal erosion porn at the remarkable Easton Woods in Suffolk - where trees literally drop over the edge on a daily basis. Southwold in the distance.
I wasn’t necessarily expecting any new species on a visit to urban Leeds, but it was nice to find this Grey Silverfish (Ctenolepisma longicaudata) on my son’s kitchen worktop. Nice for me, at least.
November 23, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I wasn’t necessarily expecting any new species on a visit to urban Leeds, but it was nice to find this Grey Silverfish (Ctenolepisma longicaudata) on my son’s kitchen worktop. Nice for me, at least.
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Are you an MSc student based at a UK university? Or do you know one?
RSPB @rspbscience.bsky.social have just released their list of research projects for 2026:
www.rspb.org.uk/helping-natu...
#ornithology #conservationscience 🌍
RSPB @rspbscience.bsky.social have just released their list of research projects for 2026:
www.rspb.org.uk/helping-natu...
#ornithology #conservationscience 🌍
Postgraduate opportunities
The RSPB is offering a variety of exciting research projects for postgraduate students in 2026.
www.rspb.org.uk
November 21, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Are you an MSc student based at a UK university? Or do you know one?
RSPB @rspbscience.bsky.social have just released their list of research projects for 2026:
www.rspb.org.uk/helping-natu...
#ornithology #conservationscience 🌍
RSPB @rspbscience.bsky.social have just released their list of research projects for 2026:
www.rspb.org.uk/helping-natu...
#ornithology #conservationscience 🌍
Divided spores of Thelidium decipiens. This is a lichen of hard limestone, with immersed perithecia like a Bagliettoa, but the large, divided (septate) spores are diagnostic. #SAS
November 21, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Divided spores of Thelidium decipiens. This is a lichen of hard limestone, with immersed perithecia like a Bagliettoa, but the large, divided (septate) spores are diagnostic. #SAS
I had a bloke come up to me in the churchyard at Harpley asking what I was doing. For some reason he just couldn’t believe I was admiring Circinaria hoffmanniana. The concept seemed somehow laughable to him. Some people (shakes head). 😁
November 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I had a bloke come up to me in the churchyard at Harpley asking what I was doing. For some reason he just couldn’t believe I was admiring Circinaria hoffmanniana. The concept seemed somehow laughable to him. Some people (shakes head). 😁
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People of Norfolk, come and spend a cosy winter evening with me, @themarshtit.bsky.social and @timholtwilson.bsky.social as we talk birds, landscape and history at NWT’s Cley reserve on 5th Dec. Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tales-of-b.... #NorfolkWildlifeTrust #NorfolkNature #naturewriting
November 20, 2025 at 8:05 PM
People of Norfolk, come and spend a cosy winter evening with me, @themarshtit.bsky.social and @timholtwilson.bsky.social as we talk birds, landscape and history at NWT’s Cley reserve on 5th Dec. Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tales-of-b.... #NorfolkWildlifeTrust #NorfolkNature #naturewriting
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Curious about lichens?
Lichens of Britain & Ireland is a beautifully illustrated beginner’s guide to 200 species you can identify with just a magnifying lens.
Available to pre-order now!
Lichens of Britain & Ireland is a beautifully illustrated beginner’s guide to 200 species you can identify with just a magnifying lens.
Available to pre-order now!
November 19, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Curious about lichens?
Lichens of Britain & Ireland is a beautifully illustrated beginner’s guide to 200 species you can identify with just a magnifying lens.
Available to pre-order now!
Lichens of Britain & Ireland is a beautifully illustrated beginner’s guide to 200 species you can identify with just a magnifying lens.
Available to pre-order now!
I am a fully paid up member of the SAS (Spore Appreciation Society; also - Socks and Sandals). Here are the spores of the globose microfungus Navicella pileata to prove it.
November 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I am a fully paid up member of the SAS (Spore Appreciation Society; also - Socks and Sandals). Here are the spores of the globose microfungus Navicella pileata to prove it.
Thanks Jeremy, and mystery identifier! 👍
Pseudoaleuria fibrillosa.
A small orange, cup-shaped fungus growing on soil at Bryant's Heath, Norfolk.
Found by @robyaxley.bsky.social on Sunday's Norfolk Fungus Study Group foray and identified by another member of the group (not me!).
www.englishfungi.org/Species/Pseu...
#Fungi #FungiFriends
A small orange, cup-shaped fungus growing on soil at Bryant's Heath, Norfolk.
Found by @robyaxley.bsky.social on Sunday's Norfolk Fungus Study Group foray and identified by another member of the group (not me!).
www.englishfungi.org/Species/Pseu...
#Fungi #FungiFriends
November 18, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Thanks Jeremy, and mystery identifier! 👍
Cladonia ciliata var. tenuis shows P+ red and looks very cool in the process. P is Para-phenylenediamine, one of the three main chemical reagents used to spot-test lichens. The other two are K (Potassium hydroxide 10%) and C (hypochlorite or household bleach).
November 17, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Cladonia ciliata var. tenuis shows P+ red and looks very cool in the process. P is Para-phenylenediamine, one of the three main chemical reagents used to spot-test lichens. The other two are K (Potassium hydroxide 10%) and C (hypochlorite or household bleach).
I am lucky to work with some talented colleagues. These edible moths were made for a staff member’s birthday cake (no pics of cake, already gone😋).
November 17, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I am lucky to work with some talented colleagues. These edible moths were made for a staff member’s birthday cake (no pics of cake, already gone😋).
Some nice stuff from Bryant’s Heath today with Norfolk Fungus Study Group. Physcia aipolia, slime mould Badhamia foliicola, orange asco of some sort and Normandina pulchella. Need to spend another day there!
November 16, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Some nice stuff from Bryant’s Heath today with Norfolk Fungus Study Group. Physcia aipolia, slime mould Badhamia foliicola, orange asco of some sort and Normandina pulchella. Need to spend another day there!
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As we move deeper into the Norfolk autumn, the #NorfolkFloraGroup continues to venture forth and gather data. My group found itself in the high-altitude cloud-layer but undaunted, we continued to find a plethora of lovely plants and a relatively dry picnic spot on a sandy track with Hoary Cinquefoil
November 15, 2025 at 6:43 PM
As we move deeper into the Norfolk autumn, the #NorfolkFloraGroup continues to venture forth and gather data. My group found itself in the high-altitude cloud-layer but undaunted, we continued to find a plethora of lovely plants and a relatively dry picnic spot on a sandy track with Hoary Cinquefoil
Highest rainfall in 24 hours at Yaxley Acres for at least 3 years.
November 15, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Highest rainfall in 24 hours at Yaxley Acres for at least 3 years.
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A mosaic of lichen on a Sussex fencepost #lichens #lichenGBI
November 14, 2025 at 4:42 PM
A mosaic of lichen on a Sussex fencepost #lichens #lichenGBI
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Watching Labour MPs take a wrecking ball to nature makes me so angry & so sad. Their action tonight voting down amendments to the #PlanningBill intended to protect wildlife & habitats from destruction is so reckless & so counterproductive. People didn’t vote Labour for this 👇
Housing secretary tells Labour MPs to vote down planning bill amendment
Amendment restricts protection for animals to allow faster house building
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Watching Labour MPs take a wrecking ball to nature makes me so angry & so sad. Their action tonight voting down amendments to the #PlanningBill intended to protect wildlife & habitats from destruction is so reckless & so counterproductive. People didn’t vote Labour for this 👇
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Pink-footed Geese arriving at dawn, North Norfolk - framed ready for my exhibition this weekend. Painted in sub-zero conditions and ice crystals have left their own marks in the watercolour washes
November 10, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Pink-footed Geese arriving at dawn, North Norfolk - framed ready for my exhibition this weekend. Painted in sub-zero conditions and ice crystals have left their own marks in the watercolour washes
A caterpillar (possibly Fox Moth) consumed by an as yet unknown fungus from Dersingham Bog yesterday. If anyone does have their suspicions as to what the fungus might be, don’t be shy!
November 10, 2025 at 8:19 PM
A caterpillar (possibly Fox Moth) consumed by an as yet unknown fungus from Dersingham Bog yesterday. If anyone does have their suspicions as to what the fungus might be, don’t be shy!
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Surprise surprise… explains why this bill is such a disaster for wildlife & their habitats. We need balanced and informed evidence-based decision making, not this biased, subjective nonsense.
Really hoping my MP
@bengoldsborough.bsky.social will be voting in support of Amendment 130 🙏
Really hoping my MP
@bengoldsborough.bsky.social will be voting in support of Amendment 130 🙏
November 10, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Surprise surprise… explains why this bill is such a disaster for wildlife & their habitats. We need balanced and informed evidence-based decision making, not this biased, subjective nonsense.
Really hoping my MP
@bengoldsborough.bsky.social will be voting in support of Amendment 130 🙏
Really hoping my MP
@bengoldsborough.bsky.social will be voting in support of Amendment 130 🙏