Peter Brash

@peterbrash.bsky.social

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Ecologist, birder, entomologist, botanist and bat botherer. Born in Liverpool and returned via circuitous route. I block dickheads on sight. Compost the rich.

A Passion Flower. White petals, and spectacular purple, white and lilac corona filaments, lime-green and yellow anthers and purple three lobed stigma.
A couple of Round-leaved Fluellen flowers. Snapdragon type flowers with a yellow lower lip and deep purple upper. The hairy leaves have caught sand grains and hairs.
A sow-thistle flower that is the usual yellow in the centre but has pale bluish outer ray florets.
A disc of blood-clot red surrounded by dirty red-pink petals.
A rather tatty pink fibe petalled flower against a backdrop of foliage.
Delicate white umbels and pink flowrr buds against a backdrop of dark green foilage.
A tall.plant with whitish flowers, pinstripe on the outside with pinkish-brown. Further older flower spikes are in the background and the host plant, Ivy, makes up the rest of the picture.
A close up of a seed beetle perched on and against a backdrop of lilac flowers of Goat's Rue. The beetle has mostly orangle legs and antennae, the head, thorax and elytta have various densities of pale hair-like scales.
Screenshot of humidity in south Liverpool with a low of 55% and maximum of 67%
A weather map showing unbroken sunshine and less than 5% chance of rain.
A tiny black micromoth-like Caddis Fly, the wings have white streaks and spots.
A pair of small black weevils populating on the flower buds of Common Toadflax. A further weevil is perched on the tip of the flower spike.
A mating pair of longhorn beetles with brown wing cases are otherwise black, the long antennae that give the beetles their common name are held out in front. The beetles are quite hairy and grains of yellow pollen are scattered on them. They are resting on an Oxeye Daisy. A large yellow centred flower with long white outer petals.
Two Field Rose flowers, five white loved petals with an explosion of yellow anthers at the centre. The top flower has three hoverflies and the botton flower two. The hoverflies have burgundy eyes, a metallic green-bronze thorax, orange abdomens with double black bands on each segment
Clusters of white petalled flowers (usually pink) clustered at the top of a plant with green opposite leaves.
Close up of green spurge fruits. Each one is rounded tiangular in outline, a double row of lumpy warts marking the corners.
A distant view of Dark Mullein, foxglove-like leaves with a spike of white flowers (usually yellow).
A close up of pale cream-coloured downward pointing tubular flowers, the openings have out-turned triangluar lobes with long hairs.
A cluster of five-petalled flowers around an erect stem.
A lime-green and pink fuzzy caterpillar. Standing on its hind legs on a leaf. Its tiny black head surrounded by a thick collar formed by the foremost part of the body.
A greyish-green caterpillar with paler, yellowish linear stripes. Each segment has a neat little triangle of three black dots. The caterpillar is standing along the flowerhead of Cock's-foot grass, one of its foodplants.
A bright cherry red gall on the stalk of a Lime tree, resembling a Hawthorn fruit in appearance.
A tiny black long-snouted weevil on the stem of its foodplant Common Centaury. The thorax and wing cases have a patchy covering of grey-white scales
A small rectangular black beetle sitting on top of a yellow flower petal. Entirely black and glossy apart from orange triangles on the forehead and rounded patches on the wing cases.
A triangular-shaped moth, fairly plain farinose grey with a single black dot in the middle of the forewing and two rows of smaller dark dots in bands in the outer third.
Three spindle shaped cones, mainly a deep leaden purple colour with lime-green scales.
A butterfly net with the frame broken, sheared off where it should connect with the handle.
A brown moth with curious long wigs that give the appearance of cleft sticks. A pale orange-buff crescent forms a sub-terminal band. There's are very thin and have numerous spurs at the joints.
The undeside of an Elephant Hawk-moth. Rose-pink body and underwings, the latter with gold-green panels. White legs.
A moth on a piece of clear perspex. The moth is roughly triangular in outline, the wings are mainly maroon with a broad gold coloured panel across the outer third of the wing.
A soldierfly with a dark brown head and thirax, crisped with short golden hairs, milky translucent wings and a pea-green abdomen with dark marks along the centre. The fly is perched on the flowers of a magenta Marsh Thistle
Small clusters of white flowers on a branch from the axil of a pinnate leaf, the stem emerging from shallow water.
A Great Reemace after being knocked, an explosion of yellow pollen erupting from the poker-shaped flowerhead.
My hand grasping the nettle and running my hand from bottom to top.
Stinging Nettle, underside of leaf. Numerous glass-shard-like stinging hairs.
A photo of a Stingless Nettle. Similar to the usual Stinging Nettle but with longer leaves, the stem with silvery, almost velvety down.
A highlighted bit of text which explains that the far right thug with a face like a melted welly is actually called Stephen Yaxley-Lennon.
A brown moth said to have markings resembling a witch.
A yellow and black hoverfly on a hairy and prickly leaf. The dark purplish eyes meet at the top making this a mel. The wings are clear with a blackinsh mark along the front. The front two pairs of legs are lemon yellow.
A long-bodied straw-coloured spider, a darker streak runs the length of the abdomen and cephalothorax. The spider is pictured against the white nylon weave of a sweep net.
A mostly blackish jumping spider on a white piece of flint. The spider has a pale stripe down its thorax and abdomen and two parallel pale v marks on its forehead.
Another comb-footed spider. This one with a slightly elongated brown body with darker brown patches. The legs are annulated, the front two pairs extremely lond and claw-like.
Orange-tailed Mining-bee, a small bee with a black head a ginger buzzcut on the thorax, clear wings and a black abdomen with ginger hairs on the tip. The hind legs are loaded with cream-coloured pollen.
A cluster of four deep-orange dandelion-like flowers, the individual strap florets with ribs and crimped edges.
Five lilic-blue petals with paler veins, green sepals showing through gaps in the petals. Pink filaments are tipped with blackish stamens.
Normal white Hogweed flowers. Umbrella shaped flowerhead made of clusters of lacy white flowers.
A beige moth with slightly hooked forewings, a brownish line runs from the apex of the forewing and across the hind wing. A thin, pinkish-red line runs around the edges of the wing.
A brown butterfly perched in grey grasses. Its wings are closed and a black eye spot with white highlight is in the orange forewing.
Reflexed deep yellow petals bearing black dots curl away from a green trumpet-shaped style surrounded by cylindrical anthers with orange ochre pollen.
Yeallow-orange pea flowers backlit by early morning sun. The edges of the five-foil leaves are picked out of the gloom in the background.
Spotted Rock Rose. Close up of a six-petalled pale yellow flower with a white style in the centre and yellow-orange pollen tipped anthers. All but one of the petals has an obvious chestnut-brown mark close to the centre.
A close up of pale-pink five-petalled flowers with a white halo around a deep yellow centre.
The Viz character Finbarr Saunders. A long faced character with large googly eyes, red cheeks and nose and a long chin.
Early Purple Orchid. A deep purple pink orchid in a grassland with others of the same species in the background.
The night sky flashes white as lightning bounces around the sky. Dark grey clouds are illuminated by bright white flashes, black silhouettes of trees are picked out before the display is brought back to blackness by a lightning bolt making its way to the earth.
A dark grey sky lit up pink as a bolt of lightning appears. Silhouettes of trees in the foreground.
A farm building and stone wall on Anglesey. Torrential rain is pouring down during a thunderstorm.
Layers of black clouds with light shining through.
Zophomyia temula, a shiny black, bristly fly with orange bases to the clear wings. A parasitoid of something (possibly a caterpillar).
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