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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you, will definitely iRecord. Was very pleased to see it.

Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · 4d

More mushrooms at Dersingham Bog. Is this the Heath Navel (Lichenomphalia ericatorum) @robyaxley.bsky.social? #Fungi #Mushrooms #lichen

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · 4d

Visited Dersingham Bog on two occasions just a couple of days apart. Big difference in the number of mushroom species on the second day following some serious rain. Splendid pair of Blackening Waxcap, or for US viewers, Witches Hat. #Fungi #Mushrooms #MushroomMonday #DersinghamBog

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · 12d

Autumn mothing, not always full colour sometimes classy black and white. Black Rustic (Aporophyla nigrans) and Large Wainscot (Rhizedra lutosa). #TeamMoth #MothsMatter #Moths #ento

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · 13d

Trollop! Glorious Pink-barred Sallow (Xanthia togata) today. Larvae feed initially inside Willow catkins then on a broader range of plants when they drop off the tree #MothsMatter #Moths #TeamMoth #ento

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · 18d

A parasitic fungus on its favourite fungus. The bolete eater, Hypomyces chrysospermus. #Fungus 🍄

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 21d

Our work resurrecting ice age #ghostponds in the Guardian today @timholtwilson.bsky.social @hburningham.bsky.social @uclgeography.bsky.social ‘Just add water’: how to bring back ancient plants in a Norfolk ghost pond | Wildlife | The Guardian share.google/kO6HQaC4PAUJ...

‘Just add water’: how to bring back ancient plants in a Norfolk ghost pond

An expert team are resurrecting ice age ponds and finding rare species returning from a ‘perfect time capsule’

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · 21d

Bulgaria inquinans aplenty, on a beautiful September day #fungi 🍄

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Norfolk & Norwich Naturalists' Society @norfolknats.bsky.social · 22d

A last reminder that there is an NNNS Sawfly workshop running on Sunday 21st Sept 2025 at Sheringham Park - see details below and get in touch with Mark Welch if you are interested in booking a place.

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Sawfly Identification Workshop with Andy Musgrove

21st September 2025

Description: Bring your own microscope if you wish, but we will have 5 suitable ones available on the day.

Where: Meet at 09:45 in the courtyard by the cafe (as we did for the Diptera workshop in May). Sheringham Park

Bring a packed lunch and drink - or you could go to the cafe.

Booking & Price: £15. Please email Mark Welch m.welch@nhm.ac.uk for details and to reserve a space.

A photo of a sawlfy on a green leaf. The saefly is mostly black but with a large red band around the body and some white on the hind femur.

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · 26d

Let’s hear it for the Penny Bun! Bright spot in a miserable day. #fungi 🍄

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · Sep 8

Ooh congrats! 🥳 Your reply made me laugh!

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · Sep 8

We meet at last Mr Footman, Four-spotted Footman. New for garden. He’s a cracker. #MothsMatter #TeamMoth #Ento #Moths

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · Sep 1

I was behind the times and hadn’t realised the Engrailed and the Small Engrailed had united as one species. Ya live and learn. Very happy to find this one taking the air on a gatepost. #MothsMatter #Moths #Ento #TeamMoth

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · Aug 27

Great night for migrants. Blair’s Mocha (x 2), Rush Veneer, Vestal and Palpita vitrealis.
Happy Hampshire moth-ers. #TeamMoth #MigrantMoths #MothsMatter #UKWildlife

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · Aug 26

The slugs are really struggling this year… #slugs #UKWildlife

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · Aug 25

A Pale Prominent (Pterostoma palpina) ponders life on a stick. #Moths #TeamMoth #MothsMatter. #ento

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · Aug 23

Overachieving Common Carline Thistle. I never tire of this plant. #Plants #Thistles

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · Aug 22

Another delightful pair of moths to the trap in the Walsingham garden, a Scorched Carpet and Straw Underwing #TeamMoth #MothsMatter #Moths #UKWildlife #ento

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · Aug 21

A little snack?

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · Aug 21

A couple of migrants arrived together, Tawny Wave and Small Mottled Willow. Both new for garden. #MothsMatter#TeamMoth #Moths #UKWildlife

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · Aug 18

Looking for a bit of shade on a very hot day, we went to Thursford Wood.
Not expecting much mushroom so pleased with the Beefsteak
Fungus (Fistulina hepatica) and a
Whitelaced Shank (Megacollybia platyphylla). #Fungi 🍄

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · Aug 15

Four different
Spangle galls on a single oak branch. Each is the agamic (parthenogenetic) life stage of an oak gall wasp, with a single larva in each structure #spanglegalls #oakgall #ento