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Fay Newbery @fayrnhawk.bsky.social · 3d

...and @isabelrfernandes.bsky.social will be talking about the collection, and use, of foam samples. Others will be sharing tips and experiences. See you there! @funaction.bsky.social @jandbio.bsky.social @zimingwang.bsky.social @britmycolsoc.org.uk

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Fay Newbery @fayrnhawk.bsky.social · 3d

Only three days now until our first online session on #AquaticHyphomycetes There’s still time to sign up by emailing [email protected] Andi Bruder will be giving us a quick overview of this special ecological group...

Fay Newbery @fayrnhawk.bsky.social · 26d

A new Zoom-based chat group focussing on #AquaticHyphomycetes will be starting on 8th October. Join us in the evening (BST) to chat and learn about this fascinating group of fungi. Contact me at [email protected] if interested. @britmycolsoc.org.uk @funaction.bsky.social

Aquatic hyphomycete spores from Parc Natur Penglais. Including: Anguillospora crassa, Tricladium splendens, Neonectria lugdeunensis, Tetracladium marchalianum and Articulospora tetracladia. Dyed with cotton blue.

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Fay Newbery @fayrnhawk.bsky.social · 4d

The app makes this a great survey for teenagers (as well as the rest of us!)

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 4d

Many lichen species are sensitive to nitrogen pollution, making them natural indicators of air quality.

📱LicheN is a new app enabling people to help monitor air quality using lichens. Data gathered will improve understanding of N pollution and its impacts on ecosystems.

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Side by side photos of a person looking at a picture of lichen on an app and comparing it to lichen on a tree trunk

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Fay Newbery @fayrnhawk.bsky.social · 8d

I always find Anguillospora species difficult to name so only named Anguillospora crassa. I need my microscope with a x60 objective for those. X40 does give a better depth of field for photography though. I found two spores from my favourite species: Flabellospora accuminata. Absolutely gorgeous.

A spore of Flabellospora accuminata with five radiating arms that end in long, drawn-out points.

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Fay Newbery @fayrnhawk.bsky.social · 8d

August: Working with only a x10 objective rather than a x20 made the task more difficult but I found nine species. Only seven of these were found in May.

Picture of a waterfall and a list of aquatic hyphomycete species collected in foam here in August 2025.

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Fay Newbery @fayrnhawk.bsky.social · 8d

This was a really sloppy sample of foam. As the waterfall runs faster there are no eddies to accumulate foam so what was collected was not much more than temporary bubbles.

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Fay Newbery @fayrnhawk.bsky.social · 8d

I’m working backwards through time at this waterfall. September’s sample contained only two spores from #AquaticHyphomycetes: one each of Tricladium splendens and Triscelophorus accuminata.

Picture of a waterfall and a list of aquatic hyphomycete species collected in foam here in September 2025.

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Fay Newbery @fayrnhawk.bsky.social · 10d

I should start coming to the BMS autumn forays. Its just work season for me.☹️

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Fay Newbery @fayrnhawk.bsky.social · 10d

I collected another sample from this waterfall today. I've now got monthly collections from April to September and I intend to keep collecting through the winter. Just need to find time to look at how the species composition changes through the year.

Picture of a waterfall with a list of aquatic hyphomycete species seen in foam collected here in May 2025.

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Fay Newbery @fayrnhawk.bsky.social · 10d

Wow. I thought you'd only just found it. Presumably it was some time ago if it's already been sequenced. Congratulations.

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Fay Newbery @fayrnhawk.bsky.social · 11d

The wood may be dead but that's a very healthy lichen colony! Beautiful. I love tiny organisms (as long as the don't run, jump or wriggle!)

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Fay Newbery @fayrnhawk.bsky.social · 11d

Did it appear yo be growing on the moss? On the grass? Or on thatch?

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Fay Newbery @fayrnhawk.bsky.social · 11d

Exciting! Who is there in the UK, or beyond, to check this out for you?

Fay Newbery @fayrnhawk.bsky.social · 11d

Great idea. You've still packed lots of information in. Do you find the apothecia rich form in your area? I never found it in Norfolk or Surrey. It was always the isidiate form you've shown here.

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Fay Newbery @fayrnhawk.bsky.social · 11d

Where were you surveying? Dermatocarpon species are not common in southern England.

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Fay Newbery @fayrnhawk.bsky.social · 12d

It certainly is. We'll have some professionals there to help us, but generally it's an opportunity to share, help and learn together. Email me at [email protected] to learn more or to sign up. 7-9pm on the second and fourth Wednesdays of the month.

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Fay Newbery @fayrnhawk.bsky.social · 13d

Why not join the online sessions on offer this autumn and winter @jaspersharp.bsky.social ? Search for #AquaticHyphomycetes Put your book to use at last!

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Fay Newbery @fayrnhawk.bsky.social · 14d

The Freshwater Biology Association still has stocks of Ingold’s book ‘Guide to #AquaticHyphomycetes’. This illustrates not only the spores that he found, but how they developed from hyphae on the surface of leaves www.fba.org.uk/shop/p/book-10

Guide to Aquatic Hyphomycetes - SP30. — Freshwater Biological Association

An illustrated guide to Auatic and Water-Bourne Hyphomycetes (Fungi Inperfecti) with notes on their biology Author: C T Ingold Publisdhed by FBA, 1975 Format Soft Cover, 96 pages ISBN: 900386223

www.fba.org.uk

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Fay Newbery @fayrnhawk.bsky.social · 16d

Congratulations, @ilichenmoss2.bsky.social

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Fay Newbery @fayrnhawk.bsky.social · 16d

Great photos!

Jo Stephen @jostephen.bsky.social · 19d

Some fungi from a walk in the woods this morning.

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Fay Newbery @fayrnhawk.bsky.social · 16d

I think this looks lovely! Definitely 'arty'.

Michael Jones @mixaeljones.bsky.social · 16d

Fringed Water-lily on a heathland pond. I went for arty - not quite sure I pulled it off!

#WildflowerHour #DailyNature
@bsbibotany.bsky.social

A yellow-petalled flower with a slender stalk grows out of the water. The plant is reflected in the silvery water.

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Fay Newbery @fayrnhawk.bsky.social · 16d

Snap! A broken off stem in this case, with the seed head lying on the ground.

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Fay Newbery @fayrnhawk.bsky.social · 16d

A second paper: Further observations on aquatic hyphomycetes of decaying leaves appeared in 1943 doi.org/10.1016/S000...

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Fay Newbery @fayrnhawk.bsky.social · 16d

#AquaticHyphomycetes are sometimes known as Ingoldian fungi. CT Ingold of University College, Leicester was the first researcher to study this group of fungi when he looked at species growing on alder leaves in a stream doi.org/10.1016/S000...

A group of different aquatic hyphomycete spores showing some of their variation in shape and size. CT Ingold (1942)

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Fay Newbery @fayrnhawk.bsky.social · 20d

These meetings are open to all, including members of @canfunnet.bsky.social @msafungi.bsky.social @ima-mycology.org @ausmycsoc.bsky.social and any other mycological societies. Please let your members know.