You Don’t Know What You’ve Got ‘Til It’s Gone……..Fungi……. The Shimmer Of Beetle’s Wings……
by Bernie Bell - 08:57 on 12 September 2025
You Don’t Know What You’ve Got ‘Til It’s Gone…..
Butterfly Conservation has launched a rescue mission for Britain’s butterflies and is asking people to sign its open letter to retailers calling for the removal of toxic synthetic pesticides from sale for domestic use…..
https://butterflyemergency.good.do/rescue-mission/stop-the-sale-pesticides/
Please….do….sign it!
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Luscious-looking Fungi….
It’s the time of year when fungi start popping up out of no-where.
I’m fascinated by them – not a plant, not an animal - they have their very own niche in the life of our world.
I’ve previously written about the varied forms of fungi….
https://frontiersmagazine.org/fungi-the-good-the-bad-and-the-edible/
A couple of Wax-caps have turned up in our gravel….
A friend named them ‘Jelly-bean Plants' which prompted me to remind folk of the wise words of Terry Pratchett….
‘All Fungi are edible. Some fungi are only edible once.’
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The Shimmer Of Beetle’s Wings……
The following was posted on a friend’s Facebook page. I can’t credit the author, as it doesn’t say who wrote it! I also don’t think I can post the image, as it’s probably copyright. It’s on the National Trust FB page….
https://www.facebook.com/nationaltrust
…and is well worth looking at.
“Famous actress Ellen Terry wore this shimmering dress in the 1888 production of Macbeth.
Decorated in more than 1,000 beetle wings, it was even immortalised in a painting by John Singer Sargent Ellen worked closely with costume designer Alice Comyns Carr to bring out Lady Macbeth's persona in everything she wore - this particular piece was designed to invoke fear as she walked on stage, giving the appearance of a serpent's scales.
Catch it on display at Smallhythe Place in Kent before it's put away for conservation 'rest' from 3 Nov.
Photos: Cassie Dickson and James Dobson, Smallhythe Place - National Trust “
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1354216742742295&set=pcb.1354216842742285
Picture it….1988 – a theatre lit only by gas or candle-light – Lady Macbeth enters – shimmering eerily……
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