fletchpj @fletchpj@qoto.org

A moorland puddle, or an entrance to the underworld...

#Scotland #Galloway #Photography #Blackandwhitephotography

This is a trapdoor spider from the Foulden Maar fossil site in New Zealand. Spiders are incredibly rare as fossils but every now and then we get fantastic specimens (you can even see hairs on its legs!)
#FouldenMaarWeek #Paleontology https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325400960_Fossil_arachnids_from_the_earliest_Miocene_Foulden_Maar_Fossil-Lagerstatte_New_Zealand

Very pleased with this #print of the #simurgh, I had a lot of fun with the border and the integument of the simurgh. I think I'll do a cormorant or dinosaur in this style next.
#printmaking #linocut

#BOTD Arthur Machen. An author and occultist, Machen is a hugely influential figure in the development of weird fiction and folk horror. Stephen King described his story The Great God Pan as "Maybe the best [horror story] in the English language." Other works include The Three Imposters and The Bowmen, which created the legend of the Angel of Mons. #horror #arthurmachen #weirdfiction #folkhorror

Good to see that the #beavers 🦫 are thriving on the #RiverOtter in #Devon. Lots of signs of activity like this. Hopefully I’ll even get to see the elusive creatures one day.

#nature

Winter polypore #fungi #FungiFriday

A hidden fairy bridge, in Glen Creran Scotland. The bridge is about 1mt wide, and well off the beaten track up in a forest on a hillside, quite magical. I have posted this before but I was on another server then, so posting again. #MyOccasionalBridges #BridgesOfMastodon #Bridge #Fairy #Scotland

One from a few weeks ago that I have only just come across. It was taken shortly after sunrise in Glastonbury. That sky!
#glastonbury #glastonburytor #somerset #sunrise #sunrisephotography

#orchids #Mosstodon Backyard surprise of purple orchid with squiggles of white against backdrop of lovely moss

Just checked a trailcam and found a photo of a pademelon on an invisible hoverbike.😂
#Tasmania #Pademelon #Marsupial #Flying #Hoverbike #Funnny #Trailcam

Walking into the dream.

Cute little Tree Creeper, so lovely to see this one scurrying up and down the trees and stumps looking for breakfast.

#Scotland #Nature #wildlife #loch #woodland #forest #Wood #Lake #River #Highland #Photography #Wild #Bird #Tree #Treecreeper #Breakfast

Lumpy bracket and Hoof fungus above #fungi

On behalf of scientists can I just say what a monumental fuck up this is.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-64726522

🟢 Artist: #KenPlotBot - in City: 🤫 in somewhere 🤫 in #Berlin Germany 🇩🇪 - Title: ""Sektor 4"(📷 by gloryofdisrepair) - #Streetart #Art #Mastoart #Mural #Dark #LostPlaces #Gasmask #Photography #Fotografie #Abandoned

Octopus by Ulisse Aldrovandi, Animali, vol 4,16th century. Watercolor. Collection: Universita di Bologna. #art #octopus #animals #collections

An overcast day, but a sense of wide-open freedom against a backdrop of ancient glacial stone, scarred & roughly hewn into ground & hills.
A splash of whiskey in the flask of coffee & a thick wedge of birthday gingerbread by the clapper bridge over Austwick Beck. Another turn around the sun!

#photography #landscape #YorkshireDales

Oh for the love of #flies it’s #TaxonomyTuesday

These amazing females are Clitelloxenia assmuthi & these #Phorids are termitophilous - they live with, & some feed on, termites

This is one of the 190 recorded termitophilous & other termite-associated Phorids - one of the most ecologically diverse family of animals on the planet!

@nhmscience #collection