Spooky facts about bumblebees: 💀 Bumblebees have an exoskeleton 📏 Hatched bumblebees can't grow bigger 🫀 The heart runs down the length of the body 🩸 Blood isn’t carried in veins and arteries, so organs sit in a pool of blood 📷 X-ray of a Tree bumblebee (The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust)

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Two wraith-like Ophrys bee orchid variations that appeared, like apparitions, on our @mariposanature.bsky.social Orchids of Rhodes tours earlier this year - the palest examples I've ever seen of Ophrys reinholdii and Ophrys cretica. What do the coming years' tours hold in store? 👻 #orchids

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A few fungi seen at Raveley Wood (VC31) this week including my smallest ever Wrinkled Peach (c. 8mm!), Orange Bonnet, Velvet-shank, Funeral Bell, Willow Shield, Impatient Inkcap, Clustered Bonnet and so much Tripe Fungus! #fungusfriday #fungifriends

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Absolutely fantastic news: the @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social have hit their £30m fundraising target to buy the vast Rothbury Estate in Northumberland. A former grouse moor owned by the Duke of Northumberland’s heir, it will now be rewilded. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Dropped by Slapton Ley on our way home from beautiful Devon. Had a feeling that Strapwort Corrigiola litoralis would still be looking good, and it was! Not seen this plant for about 15 years. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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