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Douglas B. ~Macrominiverse~
@macrominiverse.bsky.social
Macro and Wildlife Photography
The tiny things in life interest me 🍄🐛🦟
📸 All photographs are my own
🚫 Not AI-Generated
📍 United Kingdom 🇬🇧

#macro #conservation #wildlife #photography #insects
I found this Rose Chafer #Beetle while on a trip to #Anglesey back in July. It was clumsily flying around and landed on a busy path in need of rescue.

🪲:Cinnabar Moth
🔬:Cetonia aurata
📍:Birmingham UK

#macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #coleoptera #insect #emerald #green
September 10, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I found a mating pair of #sawflies. As they were predisposed I managed a few shots.

These individuals are from one of the several Rhogogaster species found in the #UK

🔬:Rhogogaster Sp.
📍:Birmingham UK

#macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #hymenoptera #sawfly
July 1, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I've been trying to be more #mindful of the little things. I am getting great joy from watching my #wildflower #meadow develop.

Here's my two favourite #springtime flowers:
Cowslip (Primula veris) & Snake's head fritillary (Fritillaria meleagris)

#nature #wildlife #conservation #haymeadow
April 2, 2025 at 7:33 PM
These #fungi add a much needed splash of #colour to the #woodland at this time of the year.

🍄:Scarlet/Ruby Elfcup
🔬:Sarcoscypha sp.
📍:Birmingham UK

#macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #fungifriends #mushroom #fungus #mycology #elfcup #saprotroph
March 7, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Been rekindling my love for #bird #photography in the last few weeks and I have always had a soft-spot for this #species

🐦:Nuthatch
🔬:Sitta europaea
📍:Birmingham UK

The nuthatch uses mud to shape the entrance to their tree cavity nests.

#woodlandbird #woodland #bird #nuthatch #nature #wildlife
February 27, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Here's a pretty little mushroom I found in my lawn I thought you #fungifriends may like.

Not 100% with the I.D. so if you know better let me know!

🍄:Moss Bell
🔬:Galerina hypnorum
📍:Birmingham UK

#macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #fungi #mushroom #fungus #mycology
February 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Today I am feeling super proud to have one of my photographs awarded Highly Commended in the @royentsoc.bsky.social photography competition 2024.

🔬: Anoplophora zonatrix
📍:Kerinci Seblat, Indonesia

#macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #longhorn #beetle #insectweek #indonesia
January 31, 2025 at 6:53 PM
I hadn't had the pleasure of finding these suede beauties before. I found this cluster whilst #coppicing an old overstood Hazel stool.

🍄: Spring Hazelcup
🔬: Encoelia furfuracea

#macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #fungifriends #fungus #mycology #hazel #cupfungi
January 26, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Hoverflies are often mistaken for #bees or #wasps, but these #dipterans have no ability to sting you.

This is entirely intentional evolutionary trait known as Batesian mimicry.

🔬:Syrphinae sp.
📍: Worcestershire, UK

#macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #hoverfly #hoverflies
January 13, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Some #moths look so #fluffy up close. These 'hairs' are actually modified scales which are individually pigmented aiding #camouflage.

🐛:Silver Y
🔬:Autographa gamma
📍:Birmingham UK

#macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #moth #lepidoptera #wildlifephotography #invertebrate
January 12, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I found this #cricket whilst on a night #trek in a #jungle in #westsumatra, #Indonesia.

The dew drops #magnify the striking markings on the wingcase.

🦗:Nisitrus insignis
📍:Kerinci Seblat, #Sumatra

#macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #indonesia #kerinciseblat #jungletrek
January 10, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I am appreciating the form of #fungi at the moment. This glorious collection were high up, but I couldn't resist the #photo. Can you see the lurking #shroom?

🍄:Oyster
🔬:Pleurotus ostreatus
📍:Birmingham UK

#macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #fungifriends #fungus #mushroom
January 3, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Here's a photo of a cool #fungi for all you #fungifriends.

This #mushroom was on the same branch of as one of my previous posts.

🍄:Winter Polypore
🔬:Lentinus brumalis
📍:Birmingham UK

#macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #mycology #fungus #mushroom #mushroom
January 2, 2025 at 4:56 PM
The #spiral shape is found frequently in #nature and is very pleasing to the eye.

This is because they follow the #goldenratio, this formula has informed #art.

🐌:White Lipped Snail
🔬:Cepaea hortensis
📍:Birmingham UK

#macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #snail #snails
January 2, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Wishing you all a happy #NewYear!

I'd like to share my favourite #photo of the 2024 season. This #bee was in my #wildflowermeadow make #wildlifegardening your 2024 #resolution.

🐝:Cellophane Bee
🔬:Colletes sp.
📍:Birmingham UK

#macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #bees
December 31, 2024 at 5:10 PM
Some #weevils are astonishingly #beautiful. I love the #iridescent rainbow colours this particular #weevil has on its #exoskeleton.

🪲:Aspen Leaf Rolling Weevil
🔬:Byctiscus populi
📍: Worcestershire UK

#macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #beetle #coleoptera #rainbow #colors
December 22, 2024 at 3:45 PM
The term #bug gets banded around colloquially to mean all #insects but to #entomologists the 'true bugs' are members of the order #hemiptera.

🪳:Green Shieldbug
🔬:Palomena prasina
📍:Birmingham UK

#macroaddicts #green #macro #invertebrate #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #shieldbug #stinkbug
December 19, 2024 at 9:27 PM
#Ragwort (Jacobaea vulgaris) is often over zealously removed despite being a poplar choice for pollinators.

It is also essential to one day flying #moth with a striped #caterpillar.

🐛:Cinnabar Moth
🔬:Tyria jacobaeae
📍:Birmingham UK

#macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife
December 18, 2024 at 6:44 PM
Here's a little #bee I found foraging on yarrow earlier this year.

🐝:Blood Bee
🔬:Sphecodes sp.
📍:Birmingham UK

#Bees in this genus are known as #cuckoobees, which are brood #parasites. Laying their eggs in other solitary bee nests.

#macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife
December 17, 2024 at 6:26 PM
This #fungus has massive #genetic plasticy due to its over 23 ,000 mating types.

🍄:Split Gill
🔬:Schizophyllum commune
📍:Birmingham UK

Their unusually divided #gills are characteristic.

#macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #fungifriends #mycology #fungus #mushroom #fungi
December 16, 2024 at 9:00 PM
I sometimes also photograph #birds, here's an Amber Listed Species from the #UK

🐦:Stock Dove
🔬:Columba oenas
📍:Birmingham UK

This species nests in cavities within trees.

#nature #wildlife #bird #wildlifephotography #woodland #wood #tree #forest #birdphotography #rspb
December 14, 2024 at 2:21 PM
What's that? It's #flyfriday? Go on then..

I found this fly sat on my bag whilst on a jungle trek into Kerinci Seblat National Park.

🪰:Phytomia zonata?
📍: #Sumatara, #Indonesia

What do you think of it's cool eyes 👀?

#macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #diptera #fly #flies
December 13, 2024 at 6:36 PM
It's #Winter here in the #UK so with few insects around to photograph I have turned to an emerging passion for the season #fungal #photography

🍄:Winter Polypore
🔬:Lentinus brumalis
📏:Cap ~2.5cm
📍:Birmingham UK

#macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #fungifriends #fungi #fungus
December 12, 2024 at 6:35 PM
Blown away by the response to my last post, I think I have finally found my community in #bluesky

I'd like to say hi!

I'm Doug, a #nature lover and amateur #wildlifephotographer who loves #macro.
I work in #wildlifeconservation in the UK and love #walking and #travel.

#newtobluesky #community
December 12, 2024 at 4:45 PM
Some #mushrooms exude slime, the stipe of this #fungus looks almost glass like. The wet appearance gives this #fungi its common name.

🍄:Dripping Bonnet
🔬:(Roridomyces roridus)
📏:Cap ~8mm
📍:Birmingham, UK

#macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #mycology #mushroom #fungifriends
December 11, 2024 at 6:43 PM