I keep meaning to add a section to the Discover the Wild website dedicated to my own reviews of natural history books. The ones I reach for most often as field guides, the ones I pore over for inspira...

Earlier this month I found myself in the kirkyard at St. Cyrus NNR giving a guided lichen walk. For a moment, we closed our eyes and listened intently. Waves washed ashore and corvids and gulls bus…

🎥 Slime mould eating a living ant?!?📸 It looks like the pulsing plasmodium of this ‘dog’s vomit’ slime mould (Fuligo septica) is consuming an ant that’s still alive.🐜 Footage I shot before this clip shows it is clearly alive, but appears to be stuck/unable to move. I don’t think slime moulds have been recorded to consume living insects like this. So is it just a coincidence? Let me know what you think 💭 #scottishfungi #slimemoulds #timelapse #lookcloser

🍃The mossy forest floor…one of the common dung-dwelling Inkcaps (Coprinopsis cf stercorea) growing on roe deer dung. _______________________________ #scottishfungi #citizenscience #mycology...