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Douglas B. ~Macrominiverse~
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
#alttext A close-up portrait of biscuity ginger coloured bee resting on top of a oxeye daisy one wing sticking out to the right. The foreground has the yellow florets of the daisy coming in and out of focus. Splitting the image in half the white of the flowers petals are in the background out of focus.
December 31, 2024 at 5:10 PM
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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
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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
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#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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
#alttext Looking slightly upward at at a hopeful mushroom filling the scene whose base sits within moss. With a slight kink it's fawn coloured felted stem (stipe) travels upwards towards a stark colour change just beneath its cap. The surface changes becoming off-white an dotted with small pores covering the surface the felted fawn cap sits above curved down over and shading it's pores.
December 12, 2024 at 6:35 PM
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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
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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
#fungifriends #macroaddicts
December 11, 2024 at 6:43 PM