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📸 One week to go! Whether you've photographed butterflies, beetles, bees, flies, dragonflies or something completely unexpected, there's still time to enter the RES #InsectWeek Photography Competition. ⏰ Entries close 31 October buff.ly/pkwv08O

As it’s my birthday on Saturday (24th), we’re having a wee sale. The Gatherer, our Red Squirrel print, is down to £30 for one day only. Grab a wee seasonal bargain while you can. #redsquirrel www.cutfromtheland.co.uk/product/the-...

If you’re bored this stormy weekend why not browse loads of pics & vote for your favourites in the @bsbibotany.bsky.social Botanical Photographer of the Year? There are hundreds of creative, unusual & wonderful photos & the winner will come from the shortlist you help create bsbi.org/take-part/ac...

It's fun to learn about the budget... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...

And a few from my other #WaxcapWatch surveys yesterday at Kirkoswald (new) Cemetery and Dunure Cemetery (which is the place I might choose if I was going to be buried somewhere - what a spot!). Orange peel fungi (if correct) and meadow coral fungi, both new for me.

Sorbus aucuparia (rowan). https://images.wur.nl/digital/collection/coll13/id/1317/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorbus_aucuparia #plants #roots #illustration

A relaxing afternoon spent doing #WaxcapWatch surveys in cemeteries :)

I think that might be me hooked on #WaxcapWatch surveys now... Finally found some Ballerinas, and they are beautiful! And Violet Coral! Dundonald, Ayrshire.

South Boisdale Burial Ground, South Uist; surprise roadside waxcaps on Eriskay (probably?!) 8.8.26. Rainbow over the ferry, with many common dolphin sightings on the way home :)

Well, these are amazing...

Booking is now open for the 2026 Scottish Botanists' Conference! www.tickettailor.com/events/botan... Join us for talks, workshops, exhibits & a post-conference dinner. From Caledonian Pine forests to the urban flora of our towns and cities, from mints to mountains, there is something for everyone!

Vatersay beach, #WaxcapWatch survey on Barra, full rainbow as seen from the house on Eriskay 7.10.26 :)

Eriskay 5.10.26 and 6.10.26. Quite a successful #waxcapwatch at the cemeteries. Along with some deceivers...

Our annual membership special offer opens today! Join us this month to start enjoying 15 months of membership benefits for the price of 12. Benefits to you: social/training/access/opportunities & more Benefits to our wild plants: in a changing world, your support is vital! bsbi.org/blog/2026/10...

Dundonald Castle 26.9.26

Any editors out there, or botanical academics?!

Join us for the BSBI's Scotland AGM online - Tuesday 29th September, 7:30pm! #BSBIMembers Find out what has been happening in Scotland, vote for next year's Committee members, and enjoy a talk on Scotland's endemic wildlife from @jameshardingmorris.bsky.social www.tickettailor.com/events/botan...

More attempted #WaxcapWatch Surveys... Stair Church, Ayrshire. I love autumn. Look at that leaf!

That spindle...

Great Cumbrae. Again! Lion Rock and The Cathedral of The Isles & College of The Holy Spirit (a tiny cathedral!). 18.9.26

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Respond to the call to action. Nature IS heritage, and the National Lottery needs to continue to support nature. action.wildlifetrusts.org/page/199433/...

Fancy sharing your botanical skills with others, and assimilating more people into the botanical world?! Resistance is futile! (We'd love you to come and be an Identiplant Tutor - which is an online plant ID course run by the BSBI!)

A delightful couple of hours spent in my local graveyard today, attempting my first #WaxcapWatch and finding an impressive population of one of my top ten favourite plants, Hare's-foot Clover. Fungi is tricky.

Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy play REM, St Luke's, Glasgow 9.9.26

A week late for the #seedheads #wildflowerhour challenge, but I spotted these awesome Agrimony spikes whilst doing my butterfly transect and they are too fab not to share. 😍 How have I not noticed these before?! 🫣

Great Cumbrae. Please enjoy these blurry photos :) 6.9.26

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s... West Wing fans will appreciate this. Amazing! And disturbing that the Mercator projection makes Britain so huge.

I love that the bumblebees use the dahlias for shelter in strong winds!

Not so easy to photograph this Speckled Wood. Very flighty! Lovely to see in the garden this morning though.

Here's a great opportunity to support Identiplant, our very popular online #WildflowerID course: by becoming an Identiplant tutor! Find out how you can help beginner botanists get started, by attending an online intro session at 7pm on Tuesday 22 Sept: www.tickettailor.com/events/botan...

First time properly keying out a rose with the new(ish) BSBI roses handbook. Quite a nice example of Rosa sherardii. Hopefully!

Got some very tame painted ladies in the garden at the moment. I love their undersides. And that's not something I say often...

Nice to see one of these while down in the Crispy Cotswolds.

Church of St John the Baptist, Cirencester 23.8.26

Cairn Table, Ayrshire 16.8.26

This little guy paused for a 'wash' whilst helping me with greenhouse duties this morning. I was on watering, he was on pollinating. Thanks buddy. Think he was a Common Carder Bee, but I'm finding bumblebees much harder to learn than I thought I would...

Cloud watching. Beautiful.

I love snail trails... Beautiful.

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Mugdock Castle and Craigend Castle 8.8.26

We've been sent this striking photo of an albino Meadow Brown (ab. grisea-argentacea). Seen near Coverack last week by Peter Wood. 📷 Peter Wood

New dahlia. Princess Nadine possibly :)