@rogerhorton.bsky.social
Retired scientist. Niche natural history interests 🌱🦅🦋🪲🪨 Cambridge UK but often in Suffolk 📷: Suffolk Breckland sunset, TL45Y =tetrad (2x2km square) round Cherry Hinton. ❤️ 🇪🇺 🇳🇱 & Berlin
@rogerhorton.bsky.socialThanks Moira! Not sure how feeds work in general but even some of my own I have to refresh the screen to get up to date.
@rogerhorton.bsky.socialParked the car ready for its MOT next to a Common Lime tree and discovered a colony of Firebugs, Pyrrhocoris apterus. Closest to home so far! 🤗
#Hemiptera #Cambridge
@rogerhorton.bsky.socialLast time I ventured the 5km down RSPB #LakenheathFen in spring last year this Native Black Poplar tree was much easier to see before surrounding trees had their leaves!
#ThickTrunkTuesday #Trees #Suffolk
@astrapian.bsky.socialReposted by @rogerhorton.bsky.socialA gall of Aceria brachtarsus on a walnut leaf in north Suffolk, apparently a first for the county - first found in the UK in 2021, and only nine records on iRecord (from London-Leicester-Norwich)
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@rogerhorton.bsky.socialThanks Jeremy! Just the nightshades provided by Suffolk really. There’s loads of Black and Green growing together and I know there’s a hybrid but I’ve never knowingly found it.
@rogerhorton.bsky.socialSolanum nitidibaccatum, Green Nightshade, hairier than Black and with those dark red V shapes in the flowers. I see lots of it in the Suffolk Brecks in potato fields!
@rogerhorton.bsky.socialDuring 'Wildflower Hour' last night I saw that the feed was often lagging by 10 or more minutes whereas a search for the hashtag and selecting 'Latest' was updating by the second. Anyone else notice? 🤔
#WildflowerHour
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@linneansociety.bsky.socialReposted by @rogerhorton.bsky.socialPlant paternity is tricky business. Eucalyptus, for eg, can reproduce with plants from related but different species to create successful seedlings, creating hybrids. Read about how researchers have been investigating plant parental histories. Read here: buff.ly/2G1VUjg
@rogerhorton.bsky.socialVery few records in @bsbibotany.bsky.social database for Shaggy Soldier, Galinsoga quadriradiata, from the #Suffolk #Brecks to date! It was growing in this field of carrots but on the sandy margin strip used by heavy irrigation equipment. 🤔
@rogerhorton.bsky.socialThat's interesting. Looking at the @bsbibotany.bsky.social atlas it seems as though Dublin is the best place to find it! Quote: 'Curiously, it has spread very little in Ireland, where it was first recorded in 1980.'
@cycle4nature.bsky.socialReposted by @rogerhorton.bsky.socialA few from Saturday's walk around Cambridge for #WildflowerHour, names in ALT text.
Interesting to see Spiked Speedwell coming into bloom for a second time this year.
Nice to see some Autumn Red Dead-nettle too, normally an early Spring flower 🙂
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@rogerhorton.bsky.socialObligatory photo of Narrow-leaved Ragwort, Senecio inaequidens, growing in masses between the tracks at #BuryStEdmunds station and behind railings in the station approaches. #WildflowerHour #Suffolk
@rogerhorton.bsky.socialCommon Reed, Phragmites australis, going to seed at #LakenheathFen #Suffolk today, still providing a perch for, what else but, a Reed Bunting. #WildflowerHour
@rogerhorton.bsky.socialShaggy Soldier, Galinsoga quadriradiata, in its regular spot along Saxon Street in #Cambridge (L) but also amongst the nettles at the side of a #Suffolk #Brecks field at Icklingham (R). #WildflowerHour
@rogerhorton.bsky.socialCommon Toadflax, Linaria vulgaris, by far the commonest flower beside tracks at RSPB #LakenheathFen #Suffolk today.
#WildflowerHour
@rogerhorton.bsky.socialFlowers of Jerusalem Artichoke, Helianthus tuberosus, still flying high by the end of West Wood at RSPB #LakenheathFen #Suffok today. #WildflowerHour
@rogerhorton.bsky.socialLucerne still flowering on the central reservation of the A1307 outside @cambridgeppf.bsky.social Wandlebury #Cambridge.
#WildflowerHour
@rogerhorton.bsky.socialFlowers from a very wet morning at @cambridgeppf.bsky.social Wandlebury #Cambridge:
Perennial Flax, Blue Fleabane, Wild Parsnip & Wild Carrot.
#WildflowerHour
@bastiaanbrak.bsky.socialReposted by @rogerhorton.bsky.socialLeuke #stoepplant vondst vandaag ergens in Westergouwe:
Siertabak (Nicotiana x sanderi)
#PlantsNotPolitics
@bigmeadowsearch.bsky.socialReposted by @rogerhorton.bsky.socialBittersweet, Solanum dulcamara. Look out for the leaf mine of the micro moth Acrolepia autumnitella also known as the Bittersweet Fanner, the Bittersweet Smudge and the Speckled Bittersweet moth. The mine is a translucent blotch and the larva is whitish-green with a pale brown head.
