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Veeloxxy Bites @the-episiarch.bsky.social · 5h

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
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<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...

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MIA: Japanese and Korean Art (Bot) @miajapankorea.bsky.social · 9h

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 · 9h

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…

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University of Exeter Special Collections @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social · 10h

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 · 1d

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 · 23h

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 · 14h

#MycoBookClub

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 22h

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 · 14h

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

#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 · 1d

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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Ozma @psychicozma.bsky.social · 1d

Bats Under a Full Moon
by Ohara Koson, ca. 1910

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Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social · 1d

No worries, I'm annoyed by people picking excessive numbers of fungi too

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

GRASSLAND FUNGI a field guide

3rd edition

By Elsa Wood and Jon Dunkelman

Additional photographs by Keith Moseley and Malcolm Schuyl

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Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social · 1d

It was for an event to teach people about fungi and how to identify them. There were also specimens that needed to be examined in more detail to identify them

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Colossal @thisiscolossal.com · 2d

Halloween is weeks away. What's your costume? Riitta Ikonen is giving us some ideas with these fungi fits 🍄

www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/10/ikon...

in the forest, a figure wears a garment reminiscent of a columned stinkhorn mushroom, featuring curved red and pink stalks that meet at the top. the figure's face peeks out from a bulbous white appendage at its base.

in the forest, two figures wear matching red garments reminiscent of dog stinkhorn mushrooms.

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West Midlands Fungus Group @westmidsfungi.bsky.social · 2d

Fluorescence of a Russula under 365nm UV light #FungiFriends #Fungi #Mycology #Fluorescent

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Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social · 2d

I think this is Volvariella murinella - grey streaked cap, volva at stipe base and pinkish gills when mature #FungiFriends #mycology #fungi #ukwildlife #UKFungi

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Pagan Birder @paganbirder.bsky.social · 2d

Treasure hunting again on the magical Quantock Hills, a very good year for fungi 😀 #quantockhills #ukfungi

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Highbury Park Friends @highburyprkfriends.bsky.social · 2d

Orange peel fungus found on the path next to the railway line.

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Ai-Lin @akeewales.bsky.social · 2d

Storm Amy last weekend meant sessions planned had to be postponed 😢 as it wasn't save to take people into the woods. So with a free weekend, when the weather cleared, it was lovely to spot many different fungi & slime mould about. #natureconnection #fungimatters

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Lina Svärd 🐻 Commissions open! @softlywool.bsky.social · 4d

Day four of 31 Days of Fungi ✨
This is Magpie Inkcap!

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Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social · 2d

They always seems to be in mossy conifer needle litter, so usually occur in plantations not grasslands

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Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social · 2d

Those look like Honey Fungi to me

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