Idle speculation

this is serious enough for a series of linked Observations with the tag Earth Watch

Thanks MikeD and dj for those links.
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Not good news.
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This on Volunteers is apposite for us.

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Guardian lead picture; BBS has this: Biantheridion undulifolium
(Nees) Konstant. & Vilnet

Biantheridion undulifolium (was Jamesoniella undulifolia), Marsh Flapwort, growing through Sphagnum rubellum.

Photographed by Des Callaghan during a survey of a site in mid-Wales. It seems quite fussy about which species of Sphagnum it grows through, and was predominantly found with S. rubellum at this site.
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