Was in IT, now having a change of pace. Lives in Hampshire. Interests: crafts, orchids/wild flowers, the environment, Bentley the Berner 🐶💐📚🐝🇪🇺
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Anna Shergold retweeted
✨Little Sunday Giveaway ✨
Just Repost & ❤️
To win a Bookish Christmas Decoration & a few festive bookmarks
‼️UK only & ends Tuesday morning
Must be a bookish account to enter and no competition accounts ‼️
#BookTwitter #Giveaway
For #WildFlowerHour, from NE Hampshire, the winter ten - buttercup, periwinkle, alkanet, ox eye daisy, comfrey, yarrow, feverfew, bramble, red clover & hogweed (well there was more than ten, lots still flowering)
For #WildflowerHour a #winterTen - still flowers to be found (although I have 8 flower, snowberries & a seedhead), loving the umbelifers - the flowering hogweed & the Angelica (I think) seedhead. See alt text for names of plants!
ALT Ivy, cranes bill geranium, cats ear, snowberry, comfrey, Angelica, hogweed, white deadnettle, ragwort & dandelion
#fungi - so many fungi seen over the last couple of days (the fly algaric are the same as those I posted previously, just looking older), ink caps, helvella crispa (white Elfen saddle) in the church car park, turkey tale & birch polypore (well I think!)
Fab morning at the @HantsIWWildlife AGM, interesting to listen to @MeganMcCubbin & @Debbie_Tann - but the star was Fiona & the talk about Noar Hill
My neighbours front garden has such a fabulous display of fungi 💕🍄 #fungiFriday #autumn
For #wildflowerhour - flatweed and a peacock butterfly & knapweed with a hoverfly
#fungi seen on my daily dog walk, loving the colours of the fungi locally - waxy laccaria and fly algaric #autumn #fungiseason
Anna Shergold retweeted
⚠️ Environment groups urge government to stick to its promises & refuse pesticide application.
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theguardian.com/environment/…
🐝Neonics are banned in the EU because they're toxic to bees but have been authorised for use every year in the UK since 2021.
#BuglifeCampaign #Pesticides
ALT 📷 Hairy-footed Flower Bee (Anthophora plumipes) ©️ Tim Worfolk (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, Flickr)
Anna Shergold retweeted
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Dear @Ofwat … it makes no difference fining companies like @thameswater @AnglianWater @YorkshireWater etc
All the bastards will do is reslap it onto our bills. And claim they can’t improve sewage processing as they can’t ‘afford’ it, while still paying dividends.
Anna Shergold retweeted
Depressing news that Govt may approve bee-killing pesticide despite election promise to ban it - & outrageous that British Sugar has applied to use neonics for 5th year, despite industry commitment to end reliance in 2023. Govt must act to protect bees 🐝 theguardian.com/environment/…
Anna Shergold retweeted
Brexit Curse:
UK may approve bee-killing pesticide despite election promise to ban it.
Neonicotinoids are banned in the EU because they are toxic to bees.
Starmer promised to ban it BUT ...
Anything not on sale to corporations and wealthy elites?
theguardian.com/environment/…
For #wildflowerhour, #stillFlowering on the heath - gorse, bell heather, marsh gentian (it was grey, and no sun, so the flowers stay closed up) and devils bit scabious - it was a bit marshy, so I may avoid the heath until we have a few dry days!
Although the weather has been grey & wet, there was a little sun yesterday, so I went to see if any marsh gentian were flowering. They aren’t open unless it’s sunny. Yay, was sunny enough & found a few #sunlovingflowers #wildflowerhour
For #wildflowerhour this week it’s #whiteflowers - a wild flower meadow with lots of yarrow with the lovely delicate leaves & these are all #whiteform! #yarrow
Join with us in NE Hampshire on Saturday 12th oct to meet with our MP @alexbrewer and let her know that we want action on climate and nature. part of the National Day of Action, organised by @climatecoaliton & supported by @GreenpeaceUK for more info; greenwire.greenpeace.org.uk/…
For #wildflowerhour #fruits etc - teasels, sloes, rose hips, hawthorn, blackberries & not a fruit (but looks like it should be) a gall, all taken this week on one very wet dog walk in NE Hampshire @wildflower_hour
In between the thunder & rain, the butterflies & moths are active this weekend, in greater numbers than for much of the summer. Here‘s a Hummingbird hawk moth from my garden, first one this summer #Lepidoptera
