Jake Dalzell

I am starting a PhD and am looking for grassland restoration/rewilding sites in Northern Ireland! Please forward this flier to anyone who might be interested in having their land surveyed for fungi!

Look out for the rust Coleosporium senecionis on this, which is its most reliable host in Britain and Ireland #FungiFriends #WildPlantDisease www.inaturalist.org/observations...

Biologists seek justice for forgotten kingdom of fungi: Scientists push for protection for fungi at COP17 UN biodiversity summit. www.cbc.ca/news/science... #environment #ecology #mycology #biology #Science #SciChat

A lovely day #fungifriends wandering midst waxcaps in the Peak District 🥰 Finally caught up with & smelt the Cedarwood Waxcap & my first time seeing Bitter. A good day, 12 species of waxcap seen in total & if the possible Splendid is confirmed 13, not bad at all! Early for #mushroommonday 🍄 📸

Very very excited to say that the books I've been working on are ready to pre-order! The second is "Art in the Field:Fungi" & covers drawing techniques & exercises, pencil skills, watercolour tips, & step by step projects for all levels... www.google.com/search?q=978... @dandcbooks.bsky.social

I'm a subscriber to the Salad Bag school of herbarium specimen collection

Good to chat with Martin Cade watch Red-backed Shrike & a 2 mm long extremophile beetle Octhebius lejolisii, somehow it survives in splash zone pools with extremes of heat and dessication, true survivors that will probably still be going strong when we are all gone! @portlandbirdobs.bsky.social

I assume this species is fairly common but overlooked - Pale Hogweed Aphid, Paramyzus heraclei (influentialpoints.com/Gallery/Para...) at Whitlingham C.P. today. It feeds on the underside of Hogweed leaves, but handily creates this yellow mottling on the upperside. New for my #NorwichAphids list.

New to me and to Wales today was Peronospora campestris on Arenaria serpyllifolia, found with Peter Jackson at Morfa Dyffryn in Gwynedd #FungiFriends #WildPlantDisease

This is how we should see these magnificant animals, not hauled up on a boat or in fillets on a slab. We should no more catch or kill this rare and stunning megafauna than we should trap or kill tigers or whales. Here are some more of Rupert’s photos from yesterday, with his kind permission.

Following backlash from scientists, CRANE says it has suspended all grant decisions for this funding call and committed to sending rejected proposals for human review. https://scim.ag/46Qiqv3

Doassansiopsis hydrophila on Potamogeton on Monday - this is one of a group of fungi infecting aquatic plants, with large spore balls (~0.2mm) which presumably float to their next host. #FungiFriends #WildPlantDisease

Spiranthes spiralis at Killard has ripe seeds and winter rosettes now. Field season officially over 🥲

Why is it that the media never consult an ecologist on articles like this? They conflate meadow with a sown pasture with a few herbaceous perennials. The Chicory in the picture isn't even native! Of course there are few claims beyond “he believes”. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A lot of the Dactylis glomerata in our field is covered in this rust Puccinia striiformoides right now, which forms bright orange uredinia in narrow stripes. I also found a few plants with a coinfection of Puccinia graminis (I think), with larger warm brown uredinia. #FungiFriends #WildPlantDisease

Thrilled to find a Giant Puffball today! My first in over 10 years! #FungiFriends

This is the first year our Passiflora caerulea has successfully produced ripe fruit (they are pretty tasteless). Not something I ever expected in our garden.

Really interesting research on creating native prairies on urban soils in Colorado youtu.be/vq4WYYPEiJQ

“The super-rich have apocalypse fantasies of their own, built not on faith or ideology but on a calm and rational evaluation of how best to maintain their position; they would genuinely rather reign in hell than share in heaven” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...

Bidens tripartita and Persicaria hydropiper from Loughbrickland, Co. Down - both last recorded in 1989 Such lovely wetland species

Lady's Bedstraw growing in the lawn at the community garden in Redcar. Makes a fantastic lawn plant as it doesn't mind being mown, will flower at a low level, and withstands drought well too. This its second flowering after the recent rains gave it a boost.

Seemingly new to Ireland today - the powdery mildew Arthrocladiella mougeotii on Duke of Argyll's teaplant/Goji berry #FungiFriends #WildPlantDisease

🌿🌾🌳🌍🍞🎼We are sad that Jonathan Mitchley ('DrM') passed away this week. BUC and especially the Student Botany Festival, would not exist without him. He made a big impact on the UK & Irish student botany community. Competition & festival will continue in 2027. www.reading.ac.uk/news/2026/Un...

Sericomyia superbiens, a stunning hoverfly, it is a bumblebee mimic, looking convincingly like the Common carder. These were in my garden today. #hoverflies

A Green Tiger Beetle on Ilkley Moor (baht 'at)

Doassansia sagittariae on Arrowhead in central Leeds. This aquatic fungus forms balls of spores with a central cavity which presumably float in the water to reach new hosts. #FungiFriends #WildPlantDisease

How do you digitise 325,000 insect specimens? Put them on conveyor belts! 🪰🐝🦋📸 Earlier this week, I went behind the scenes at the NMNH to see this mass digitization set-up in action! Thank you @tdikow.bsky.social & the Picturae team for hosting me! Find out more here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=-OSe...

Pleased to announce my new paper: Herbarium specimens spanning nearly two centuries revealed striking ecological & geographical differences between two ploidy-defined subspecies of Eleocharis palustris in Britain. Ploidy & genome size could help explain them. doi.org/10.33928/bib...

What we're missing ajcarthropoda.blogspot.com/2026/08/what... #Wasps #Hymenoptera #VC55 #moths

National Museums Northern Ireland has two jobs for collections digitisation under the DiSSCo UK program, closing 9 September #museumjobs ce0568li.webitrent.com/ce0568li_web...

A Hummingbird Hawkmoth!

This looks like a really cool project!

Intrepid botanists headed up Slieve Muck on 18 August in the footsteps of Ireland's most famous naturalist, Robert Lloyd Praeger. They found Mountain Everlasting, a plant last recorded on the mountain by the great man himself in 1880! @bsbiireland.bsky.social Find out more: bsbi.org/about/news/p...

At Natural Surroundings wildflower centre nr Holt, they have a 'Romanian sock meadow' After a visit to the meadows of Romania, they put soil in a barrel and planted all the seeds that had hitched a ride in their socks Voila, a sock meadow!

I visited a tiny slither of woodland on a crag near Binevenagh, Co. Derry recently and despite its size it packed a big punch of temperate rainforest diversity. Loads of Colura calyptrifolia and Lejeunea patens. I also found another popn of Endoantria benetecta which is the first for the county

An interesting leaf spot today: Jamesdicksonia dactylidis on Yorkshire Fog. It forms masses of dark brown spores in the mesophyll. This was apparently the first Irish record. #FungiFriends #WildPlantDisease

Dark Bordered Beauty moth rediscovered in Northumberland after 70 years butterfly-conservation.org/news-and-blo...

The first Small Tortoiseshell I've seen this year, on Scorzoneroides autumnalis

I wish every country lane looked like this! @donnarainey4.bsky.social

A surprise on examining this ~4mm #gall on Agrostis stolonifera at Broughton Sanctuary; Skipton. Expecting maybe fungal spores, I found it to be full of nematodes up to ~1mm: Subanguina graminophila. Not often recorded. @ynuorg.bsky.social

Seeing Grayling with open wings for the first time! This pair were courting & mating.

A raven and Salix herbacea on Sliabh Binneáin