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Jeremy Bartlett

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Botanist, mycologist, cyclist and gardener based in Norwich, UK. Wildlife, especially insects and other invertebrates. Author of Jeremy Bartlett's "Let It Grow" blog, https://www.jeremybartlett.co.uk. Sorry, unable to read or send direct messages.

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Jeremy Bartlett @jeremybartlett.bsky.social · Jan 3

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Tips and Tricks for Bluesky Search - Bluesky

Let’s dive into all the tips and tricks for advanced Bluesky search!

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 18h

This insane plan would be hard to credit, except for the fact that it fits perfectly with this appalling government's sustained attack on nature and the environment

It must be fought, every step of the way

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Plans to weaken protections for national parks will have ‘disastrous consequences’ say green groups

Exclusive: Letter from 170-plus organisations calls on government to drop proposed changes to planning law

www.theguardian.com

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Jeremy Bartlett @jeremybartlett.bsky.social · 8h

Sulphur Tuft is the British name - the other one is American.

If you have a u.v. torch, shine it on them - they fluoresce.

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Jeremy Bartlett @jeremybartlett.bsky.social · 8h

I know the name from my quest to find a name for the Echinoderma I found.

Good luck in your search.

Jeremy Bartlett @jeremybartlett.bsky.social · 11h

The beautifully shaggy Echinoderma calcicola.

Found in a damp woodland on rich calcareous soil in West Norfolk.

First Norfolk record since 1920.

Had a slightly fruity smell. White spores.

I'm drying a fruitbody for verification by our group's DNA team.

#Fungi #FungiFriends

Echinoderma calcicola - cheilocystidia stained in Congo red, x1000.

Echinoderma calcicola. Spores, stained with Meltzer's reagent, x1000.

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duleyp.bsky.social @duleyp.bsky.social · 12h

A pseudoscorpion for #arachtober. A Compost Chernes [pselaphochernes scorpioides] from the garden compost heap.
#wildlifefrommywindow #invertebrates #ukwildlife #gardenwildlife #macro

A plan view of a eight legged invertebrate that has two long arms reaching out from its head with crab like claws on the end. The body looks like one large reddy brown oval, with the main portion bisected by a lighter line, with each side split into 10 regular sections. The body, arms, and legs, are covered in tiny short hairs, with occaisional longer ones which act as sensory organs.

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Claire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚 @fbpech.bsky.social · 12h

www.amnesty.org.uk/actions/defe...

Please sign and share. We are firefighting for our basic rights here!
Every day there’s something else!

Our rights are under attack. Tell your MP to protect the UK’s membership of the European Convention on Human Rights.

Our rights are under attack. The ECHR protects us all – but politicians want to rip it apart. Tell your MP: defend our rights, defend the ECHR. ✍️ #HumanRights

www.amnesty.org.uk

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 14h

First steel, now pharmaceuticals. Looks like Starmer's quickie surrender deal with the USA was built on quicksand. Not even worth the paper it was printed on.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 17h

Kemi Badenoch blames those crossing borders for our problems. It’s a lie aimed to distract.

The real issue is a system protecting the super-rich while nurses & carers can’t make ends meet. Tax wealth fairly, fund public services properly. This is how we give Britain hope again.

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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 1d

I'll just leave these here . .

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 21h

This is how we turn our country around.

Away from the forces of hate and division.

We're going to do it together.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 22h

The Green surge continues ... We’ve just passed 90,000 members! 💚

People everywhere are joining the movement for real change.

Want hope to be normal again? Join the Green Party today ↩️

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Jeremy Bartlett @jeremybartlett.bsky.social · 17h

Parent Bugs, Elasmucha grisea.

Boughton Fen, Norfolk.

www.britishbugs.org.uk/heteroptera/...

#Hemiptera #UKWildlife

Parent Bug nymphs, Elasmucha grisea, on a Common Alder leaf.

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Claire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚 @fbpech.bsky.social · 1d

www.opendemocracy.net/en/digital-i...

I have no idea who these people are in government. They are nothing like any Labour government I’ve ever known.

Digital ID will put UK on a dangerous path – just ask India

I spent years reporting on digital IDs like the Brit Card. This is what I found

www.opendemocracy.net

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Jeremy Bartlett @jeremybartlett.bsky.social · 1d

I think you're right. Russulas are tricky, though the colour and habitat are right for Beechwood Sickener. Buttercap is the more usual name for Buttery Collybia.

Jeremy Bartlett @jeremybartlett.bsky.social · 1d

"This is a man who has not demonstrated a single British value - or at least, not one that is actually valued. There's no fair play, no common sense, no self-deprecation, no humour, no irony."

BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 1d

'Nigel Farage is killing Britain - time to deport him'
We need to deport just one person, says Fleet Street Fox. The descendant of migrants who lives on the taxpayer dime, refuses to integrate, and divides us all
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

'Nigel Farage is killing Britain - time to deport him'

We need to deport just one person, says Fleet Street Fox. The descendant of migrants who lives on the taxpayer dime, refuses to integrate, and divides us all

www.mirror.co.uk

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Nearly 3000 new members in the 24 hours since the Party Political Broadcast.

Extraordinary.

Hope is returning. 💚🚀

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 1d

MI6 insiders slam Palestine Action ban as ‘distraction’ from real counter-terrorism www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...

MI6 insiders slam Palestine Action ban as 'distraction' from real counter-terrorism

It seems everyone with any expertise on terrorism, including MI6, was against the Palestine Action ban - yet Labour proceeded anyway

www.thecanary.co

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Vanna Bartlett @vannabartlett.bsky.social · 1d

Turned over a fallen branch yesterday and found this rather lovely Green-brindled Crescent Moth. Superb camouflage.
#TeamMoth

A gnarled bit of tree branch with a well camouflaged moth sitting on top of it. The moth is patterned in shades of green and brown.

Side view of a moth sitting on a gnarled bit of broken tree branch. The moth's wings are patterned in shades of green and brown.

Looking down at a moth on a piece of broken tree branch. The green and brown colours of the moth are perfect camouflage against the tree bark. Some of the scales on the base of the moth's wings are a sparkling iridescent green.

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Jack Wallington @jackwallington.com · 1d

Good - about time. Just a shame the savings aren't being passed down to customers. Stop charging gas prices for cheap renewables, sign here >> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

"Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity

Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 2d

She is a pure hero.

Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 2d

Greta Thunberg: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story. What happened here was Israel… continuing to worsen and escalate their genocide and mass destruction with genocidal intent, attempting to erase an...

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

"Rachel Reeves unblocked a development of 20,000 homes that were being held up by a rare snail, after being approached by a developer with whom she said, 'we have a good relationship'

Not only stupid and ignorant, but crooked with it

Indefensible

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer

Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

www.theguardian.com

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Vanna Bartlett @vannabartlett.bsky.social · 1d

A good day for turning over logs and stones yesterday; found 5 species of harvestmen at Boughton Fen, 4 shown here: Rilaena triangularis, Paroligolophus agrestis, Nemastoma bimaculatum and Odiellus spinosus. #arachnids #harvestmen #invertebrates
#Arachtober

A tiny juvenile harvestman with a dark brownish body topped with a large occularium at the front, bearing the pair of eyes. it is sitting on a piece of wood facing right with some small tufts of pale green moss behind it.

A greyish-brown harvestman sitting on a branch in bright sunshine. it has a pale, smooth occularium and a faint pale stripe down the centre of its body.

A small black harvestman with a pair of pale patches on its body set a little way behind the eyes. It is sitting with its legs slightly hunched up on an old rotten log half in sun and half in shade.

A large pale grey harvestman with a dark rectangular patch in the centre of its body outlined in black. It is sitting head down on the side of a stone with a dead brown leaf to the right. The harvestman has a rather small occularium compared to the large oval bulk of its body. In front of the yes is a robust three-pronged trident.

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Vanna Bartlett @vannabartlett.bsky.social · 1d

Really pleased to get some decent photos of a small juvenile Mitostoma chrysomelas at Boughton Fen yesterday. One of 5 species of harvestmen I found there. Particularly like the chelicera in side shots. #arachnids #harvestmen #invertebrates
#Arachtober

A small, pale brown harvestman with very long pale grey legs sitting head down on a rotten log that is mostly covered in white fungal growth. The harvestman has long thin pedipalps that it is holding folded up in front of its head.

Side view of a pale brown bodied harvestman with long spindly legs sitting facing right on a piece of wood covered in white fungal growth. The long thin pedipalps are held folded up in front of the animal and one of its chelicera is pointing down with the claw open.

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Vanna Bartlett @vannabartlett.bsky.social · 1d

A trio of spiders from yesterday's little explore in west Norfolk for #Arachtober Araneus marmoreus and my 2nd ever Zora spinimana from Boughton Fen and a diminutive Euophrys frontalis found in Bodney churchyard. #arachnids #spiders #invertebrates

A large orbweb spider with a pale yellow abdomen which has a dark brown patch towards the rear. The spider is climbing up a brown reed stem.

Side view of a large orbweb spider which has a yellow abdomen with a dark brown patch towards the rear and dark brown lines giving a marbled effect to the flanks. The spider is head down on a green reed stem.

A pale straw coloured spider with a pair of dark brown stripes running the length of the head and dark stripes and spots on the abdomen. The pale legs also have dark lines. The spider is in a white plastic tray having been sieved from a pile of cut vegetation.

A little spider with large eyes on the underside of a whitish stone. The spider's head is pale brown with a dark area at the front, flecked with pale hairs. The legs are also pale brown while the abdomen is pale grey with dark, broken longitudinal stripes.

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Jeremy Bartlett @jeremybartlett.bsky.social · 1d

Spiked Shieldbug, Picromerus bidens.

Good to see one at Boughton Fen, Norfolk, yesterday.

#ShieldBugs #Hemiptera #UKWildlife

Spiked Shieldbug, Picromerus bidens, at rest on a Garlic Mustard leaf.

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Jeremy Bartlett @jeremybartlett.bsky.social · 1d

Bindweed Rust, Puccinia convolvuli, at Boughton Fen, Norfolk yesterday. On leaves of Hedge Bindweed (Calystegia sepium)..

There are eleven previous Norfolk records but I've only ever seen it in Suffolk.

www.jeremybartlett.co.uk/2018/09/20/b...

#Fungi #FungiFriends

Bindweed Rust (Puccinia convolvuli), on Hedge Bindweed (Calystegia sepium) leaf.

Upper surface of leaf.

Bindweed Rust (Puccinia convolvuli), on Hedge Bindweed (Calystegia sepium) leaf.

Lower surface of leaf.

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