Great Yarmouth
Ray's Knotgrass / Sharp-fruited Knotgrass (Polygonum oxyspermum subsp raii)
Buttle's Marsh
Mixed ditch edge
Large Thistle Aphid (Uroleucon cirsii)
Water Plaintain (Alisma plantago)?
Water Fern (Azolla filiculoides)
Lesser Water-parsnip (Berula erecta)
Brookweed (Samolus valerandii)
Branched Bur-reed (Sparganium erectum)
For comparison
A ditch community
An excellent dead tree in the landscape.
Exuvia
Frogbit (Hydrocharis morsus ranae)
Floating Sweet Grass (Glyceria fluitans)
Greater Pond Sedge (Carex riparia)
Thumb print shape of the ligule and the arrangement and length of the cells.
False Fox-sedge (Carex otrubae)
Konik Ponies
River Water Crowfoot (Ranunculus fluitans)
The leaves are longer than the internodes.
Lesser Bulrush / Reedmace (Typha angustifolia)
Narrow-leaved Water-dropwort (Oenanthe silaifolia)
Nutall's Water Weed (Elodea nuttalli)
Tubular Water-dropwort (Oenanthe fistulosa)
Cyperus Sedge (Carex pseudocyperus)
Shining Pondweed (Potamogeton lucens)
Red Bartsia (Odontites vernus)
Red-eyed Damselfly (Erythromma viridulum)
Skullcap (Scutellaria galericulata)
Greater Water Parsnip (Sium latifolium)
Common Club-rush (Schoenoplectus lacustris)
Tiger Hoverfly (Helophilus pendulus)
Bristle Club-rush (Isolepis setacea)
Water Horsetail (Equisetum fluviatile)
Thin walled hollow stems
Hanworth
Wood-carving Leafcutter Bee (Megachile ligneseca)
Pantaloon Bee ♂︎ (Dasypoda hirtirpes)
Ruby-tailed Wasp
Chrysis ignata group
Small Scissor Bee ♂︎ (Chelostoma campanularum)
Stones & Lichen
A Day
of
Stones & Lichen
Tim Holt-Wilson & Rob Yaxley
Wickhampton & Limpenhoe Churches
Lichen
from
Limpenhoe Church
Ramshorn Bagworm (Luffia lapidella)
A wingless female reproducing parthenogenetically
Caloplaca flavescens
?
Lecanora campestris
Often circular colonies. Apothecia red-dark brown
Fruticose Lichen
Ramalina fastigiata
Green when wet turning to grey as it dries.
Branches irregularly shaped, ending in flattened fruits which look like a fanfare of mini trumpets.
?
Lecidella elaeochroma
Common on smooth barked trees
Porpidia tuberculosa
Myriolecis crenellata
Myriolecis crenellata
Candelariella vitellina
Leconora campestris most likley
Protoparmeliopsis muralis
Trapelia coarctata
Acarospora versicolor
Verrucaria nigrescens
Candelariella vitellina
Lichen
from
Wickhampton Church
Dirina massiliensis
Typically rounded thallus with a delimited margin.
This image was higher on the wall and the lichen looks well defined.
This image was of the lichen lower on the wall. it looks less well defined as if there is wash covering it.
Leconora sulphurea
?
Caloplaca aurantica
Distinguished by the flattened lobes at the edges of the lichen growth.
Also showing green patches where the algal layer has been exposed presumably by grazing?
Toninia aromatica
Grey and lumpy with a hint of green, studded with black, irregular shaped apothecia
Myriolecis crenulata
The thallus is usually not visible on this lichen.
Seems to present as isolated apothecia, with white cracked margins.
Myriolecis crenulata PDF
from
British Lichen Society
Another Myriolecis Sp
This time
Myriolecis albescens.
Caloplaca saxicola (Yellow)
The isolated grey apothecia surrounding the C saxicola is another Myriolecis sp
Myriolecis dispersa
The apothecia are much smaller and closed up
Myriolecis PDF
from
British Lichen Society
Diploica canescens probably
Caloplaca ruderum
Lecanora antiqua
Thallus absent but apothcai clustered together.
?
A Script Lichen often found on the North Wall of a Church
in this case
Arthonia calcarea
Hanworth
Greater Knapweed (Centauria scabiosa)
♂︎
♀︎s
Wood-carving Leafcutter Bee - (Megachile ligniseca)
How Hill
Cowbane (Cicuta virosa)
Sp? on Alder (Alnus glutinosa)
Alder Tongue (Taphrina aldi)
A fungal plant pathogen that produces chemically induced distortion of female catkins
Sp? on Alder (Alnus glutinosa)
Ferruginous Bee-grabber (Sicus ferrugneus)
A darkling beetle Diaperis boleti
Carabus granulatus
Willow Tarspot (Rhytisma salicinum)
Small yellow disco on Bracken and the black dots are something else.
To be confirmed
This was found to be Hyaloscypha flaveola
Pale Brittlestem (Candolleomyces candolleanus)
Rust? on ?
Ustilago striiformis on Purple Small-reed (Calamogrostis canescens)
Five-spot Burnet (Zygaena trifolii) with very pale spots
Oak Bush Cricket? (Meconema thalassinum)
Caddisfly Sp?
Common Maze Gill (Datronia mollis)
Cranefly Sp?
Deer Fly Sp?
Splayed Deerfly (Chrysops caecutiens)
Although the wing pattern is not clear on these images.
Thanks Rob
Fungus attacked Cranefly
Marsh Cranefly (Tipula oleracea) attacked by the fungus Entomophaga tipulae
Neoerysiphe geranii
Golden Crust Fungus (Botryobasidium aureum)
Green Colonel (Oplodontha viridula)
Fiscidea lightfootii
Not the best of images but the second image clearly shows the UV reaction of this particular Lichen
Green Leafy Lichen ?
Cladonia conicraea
Leiobunum rotundum
Helophilus hybridus ♂︎ ?
A Hop Mildew (Podosphaera macularis)
Rough-leaved Hydrangea (Hydrangea aspera)
Hyphomyctes Sp?
The Cypress Knee
Swamp Cypress (Taxodium distichum)
Despite many theories it is still not known why the trees have knees.
Lecanora sulphurea with Lecanora pannonica
Tephromela atra
Birch Catkin Bug (Kleidocerys resedae)?
Lichenicolous fungi on Physcia adscendens
Zyzygomyces physciacearum
from
Irish Lichens
Lichenicolous fungus
on
?
Peniophora limitata
Longhorn Beetle Sp
Four-banded Longhorn Beetle (Leptura quadrifasciata)
Mosquito Sp?
Mycena Sp?
Mycena corynephora - much like the commoner M tenerrima but without a basal pad.
Thanks to TL
Norfolk Hawker (Aeshna isoscles)
Royal Fern (Osmunda regalis)
Seen growing on the Royal Fern.
An early version of Bracken Map or something different?
Stewart confirmed this was something different.
Leptostroma osmundicola
Under the microscope it looked nothing like Bracken Map, pycnidia erupting through striate black patches.
Bracken Map (Rhopographus filicinus) for comparison.
Pantaloon Bee ♀︎ (Dasypoda hirtirpes) hunkering well down in an Evening Primrose (Oenanthera biennis)
A huddle of Parent Bugs (Elasmucha grisea)
Passion Flower (Passiflora caerulea)
Marsh Pennywort (Hydroctyle vulgaris) flowers
Opilio canestrinii
Hemp-agrimony Plume (Adaina microdactyla gall.
Dialonectria diatrypicola growing on Daitrype bullata
Hypoxylon howeianum
Amazing growth patterns
Remote Sedge (Carex remota)
Floating Crystalwort (Riccia fluitans)
Jointed Rush (Juncus articulatus) ?
Common Yellow Sedge (Crex demissa)
Sp?
Slime Mold Sp
Stemonitis axifera
Big Smokey Bracket (Bjerkandera fumosa)
Caucasian Wingnut (Pterocarya fraxinifolia)
Southern Hawker♂︎(Aeshna cyanea) with friends??
@Migrantdragons commented these were biting midges (Forcipomyia paludis), which are quite local in Britain.
A gelatinous mass on a twig in a dyke?
Rather wonderful
Turns out to be a Freshwater Bryozoan
which may be Cristatella mucedo
but
@BrianE_Cambs is working on it. (Thank you)
Stictus arundinaceae on dead Reed Stem (Phragmites australis)?
Camarasporum oreades on dead leaf - Sweet Chestnut (Castanea sativa)
Taphrina tosquinetii on living leaf - Alder (Alnus glutinosa)
Tuberous Polypore (Polyporus tuberaster)
Velvet Rollrim (Tapinella atromentosa)
Five-banded Weevil Wasp ♀︎(Cerceris quinquefasciata)
Yellow-tail Moth (Euproctis similis)
Yukka Leafspot (Coniothyrium concentricum)?
Collared Parachute (Marasmius rotula)
Sweet Briar Marsh
Common Bent (Agrostis capillaris)
Ants relocating eggs.
Hempnettle Sp
Common Hempnettle (Galeopsis tetrahit)
in a variety of shades.
Cranefly Sp
Crosswort (Cruciata laevipes)
Common Cudweed (Filago germanica)
Devil's-bit Scabious
Erodium/Geranium Sp?
Eyelash Fungus Sp
Reed Sweet grass (Glyceria maxima)
Reed Sweet Grass Smut probably
Ustilago filiformis
Harvestmen Sp
Opilio saxatilis ?
Swedish Whitebeam (Sorbus intermedia)
Musk Mallow (Malva moschata)
Meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria)
x
Meadowsweet Rust (Triphragmium ulmariae)
Moth Sp
A White-barred Moth Species
it could be one of three Sp from Norfolk Moths
Minute Pouncewort (Myriocoleopsis minutissimum)
Frizzled Pincushion (Plenogemma phyllantha)
Marsh Woundwort (Stachy palustris)
Glandular Dog-rose (Rosa squarrosus)
Sharp-flowered Rush (Juncus acutiflorus)
Brown Sedge (Carex distichum)
Southern Crestwort (Lophocolea semiteres)
Marsh Ragwort (Jacobea aquatica)
St John's Wort (Hypericum perforatum)
Tubular Water-dropwort (Oenanthe fistulosa)
Valerian (Valeriana officinalis)
Wasp Spider (Argiope bruennichi)
Water-purslane (Lythrum portula)
Greater Bird'sfoot Trefoil (Lotus pedunculatus)
Marsh Arrowgrass (Triglochin palustris)
Timothy Grass (Phleum pratense)
Marsh Cinquefoil leaf (Comarum palustris)
Hanworth
A Purple variety of Vervain (Verbena officinalis)
Small Scissor Bee / Harebell Carpenter Bee (Chelostoma campanularum)
Alderfen Broad
Alder (Alnus glutinosa)
Alder Leaf Gall Mite (Eriophyes laevis)
Possibly European Alder Sawfly (Fenusa dohmii)
Gypsy Cuckoo Bumble Bee (Bombus bohemicus)?
Red Soldier Beetle (Rhagonycha fulva)
Rolled Mine? on Silver Birch (Betula pendula)
Black-tailed Skimmer (Orthetrum cancellatum)
?
Hemp-agrimony (Eupatorum cannibum)
Eristalis Sp ♀︎
Possibly Eristalis tenax
Milk Parsley (Peucedanum palustre)
?
Reed Mite Gall (Steneotarsonemus phragmatidis)? on Common Reed (Phragmites australis)
From
Plant Parasites of Europe
Adult
Final instar nymph
Red-legged Shieldbug (Pentatoma rufipes)
Spotted Longhorn (Rutpela maculata)
? Birch Catkin
Spider Sp?
Aldborough
Silver Birch Aphid (Euceraphis betulae)
This one looks as if it has been attacked by a fungus but it may be a dusting of blue wax particles
Silver Birch Aphid (Euceraphis betulae)
This might be the leaf mine of Agromyza alnibetulae
Leaf edge roll?
Action on Silver Birch (Betula pendula)
Great Willowherb (Epilobium hirsutum)
Smut Fungus (Ustilago avenae) infects the spikelets of Oats and in this case False Oat Grass (Arrhenatherum elatius),
Hanworth
Lasioglossum Sp
Lesser Stage Beetle (Dorcus parallelipipedus)
Fly Sp?
Hickling
Bearded Tit (Panurus biarmicus)
Garden Tiger Moth Caterpillar (Arctia caja)
Fen Mason Wasp (Odynerus simillimus
Lunar Hornet Moth (Sesia bembeciformis)
Thompson Common
Large Knapweed Aphid (Uroleucon jacae)
Bagworm Moth Case
Fen Bedstraw
Prickles on the stem corners & leaf edges.
Ash Bark beetle channels
Branched Bur Reed (Sparganium erectum)
Slender False Brome (Brachypodium sylvaticum) infected with the 'Choke' disease Epichoe sylvaticum
Infected stems will not flower.
It's just possible this is the larva of a fly from the genus Botanophila.
The fly feeds on the young 'male & female' fungal fruit bodies, ingesting the pollinating substances. It then deposits the mixture
on another fungus when it lays its eggs. This pollinates that fungus enabling it to produce spores and also provide food for the
fly larvae.
You can see detritus at either end of the larva and the area around it where it has been browsing.
Information borrowed from
The Naturalists' Notebook
June 2013
Epichloe sylvaticum.
Common Spotted Orchid (Dacylorhiza fuschii)
Sorrel (Rumex acetosae) inflorescence.
Microbotryium stygium on Sorrel (Rumex acetosae)
Gorse Spider Mites (Tetranychus lintearius) in a communal web on Gorse (Ulex europaeus)
They can be used as an agent of Gorse Control
Hawthorn Dot (Stigmella crataegella)
Swollen Buds on Hazel caused by the gall mite (Phytoptus avellanae).
'Big Buds'
The gall mites completely destroy the young leaves or female flowers.
The galls open in late (image shows open galls) allowing the mites to leave the gall.
A very special hole in a Hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna) Leaf. Caused by a Feathered Cutter (Incurvaria masculella)
The larvae mine leaves initially and then descend to the ground in a portable case and feeding on dead leaves. The hole is the case.
Many-plumed Moth (Alucita hexadactyla) {Each wing separated into six plumes} Hole in Honeysuckle flower.
The larvae feed in the leaves and buds of of Lonicera Sp and pupate on the ground.
Unknown eggs? on the underside of the leaf.
Erysiphe lonicerae (Powdery mildew) on a Honeysuckle (Lonicera periclymenum) leaf
Shining Hawthorn Dot (Stigmella hybnerella)
?
?
Oak Cloud (Acrocerops bronniardella) Mine on Oak (Quercus robur)
Southern Marsh Orchid (Dactylorhiza praetermissa)
Burnet Companion (Euclidia glyphica)
Red Fescue (Festuca rubra)
Podospaera aucupariae (Powdery mildew) on Rowan (Sorbus aucuparia)
Common Club-rush (Schoenoplectus lacustris)
?
False Fox Sedge (Carex otrobae)
Smut Fungus (Ustilago avenae) infects the spikelets of Oats and in this case False Oat Grass (Arrhenatherum elatius),
causing blackening of the seeds, which will eventually destroy them.
Snipe Fly Sp
No dark wing stigma. The only UK Rhagio Sp that doesn't have them.
Thus
Rhagio tringarius
Soft Rush (Juncus effusus)
Sooty Bark disease caused by Cryptostroma corticale on Sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus)
Once infected trees are unlikely to be saved.
Speckled Bush-cricket (Leptophyes punctatissima)
Spike Rush Sp?
Lesser Stitchwort (Stellaria graminea)
Anther Smut (Microbotryum stellariae) on Lesser Stitchwort (Stellaria graminea)
Tubular Water Dropwort (Oenanthe fistulosa)
Cat Tail (Typha latifolia)
Cyperus/Hop Sedge (Carex pseudocyperus)
Beeston
BSBI Summer Meeting
at
Beeston Common & Beeston Bump
Beeston Common
Soft Rush
Ragged Robin
Hard Rush (Juncus inflexus)
Flat Sedge (Blysmus compressus)
Compact Rush (Juncus glomeratum)
Sweet Vernal Grass (Anthoxanthum odoratum)
Toad Rush (Juncus bufonius agg)
Strictly
Leafy Rush (Juncus foliosus)
Blunt-flowered Rush (Juncus subnodulosus)
Common Spotted Orchid (Dactylorhiza fuchsii)
Almond Willow (Salix triandra)
Heath Grass (Danthonia decumbens)
Inland Club-rush (Bolboschoenus laticarpus)
Marsh Arrow Grass (Troglochin palustris)
Quaking Grass (Briza media)
Black Bog Rush (Schoenus nigricans)
Deadly Nightshade (Atropa belladona)
Bulbous Rush (Juncus bulbosus)
Marsh Valerian seed heads (Valeriana dioica)
Meadow Vetchling (Lathyrus pratensis)
Sphagnum Sp
Lustrous Bog-moss (Sphagnum subnitens)?
?
nestled in a bed of Pointed Spear-moss (Calliergonella cuspidatum)
?
Dodder
Greater Dodder Cuscuta europea)?
Carnation Sedge (Cares panicea)
Common Butterwort rosette (Pinguicula vulgaris)
Crested Buckler-fern (Dryopteris cristata)
Bog-groove Moss (Aulocomnium palustre)
Flea Sedge (Carex pulicaris)
A fruiting spike with the utricles fully reflexed
Tawny Sedge (Carex hostiana)
?
Round-leaved Sundew (Drosera rotundifolia) nestled amongst Lustrous Bog-moss (Sphagnum subnitens) with capsules
Round-leaved Sundew (Drosera rotundifolia)
Greater Sundew (Drosera anglica)
Meadow Thistle (Cirsium dissectum)
Marsh Hellborine (Epipactis palustris)
Slender St John's-wort (Hypericum pulchrum)
Beeston Bump
Blue Fleabane (Erigeron acer)
Kidney Vetch (Anthyllis vulneraria)
Common Broomrape
Orobanche minor var heliophila
Purple Broomrape (Orobanche purpurea)
Now
Phelipanche purpurea
Pyramidal Orchid (Anacamptis pyramidalis)
Rough Clover (Trifolium scabrum)
Sand Catchfly (Silene conica)
Spring Vetch (Vicia lathyroides)
Thyme-leaved Sandwort (Arenaria serpyllifolia)
Wild Radish (Raphanus raphanistrum)
Toothed medick (Medicago polymorpha)
Thanks for a great day
Corrections & additions always welcome.
Hickling
Waisted Duckfly (Anasimyia contracta)
Four-banded Longhorn Beetle (Leptura quadrifaciata)
Emperor Moth Caterpillar (Saturnia pavonia)
Yellow-tail Moth (Euproctis similis)
Blue-tailed Damselfly (Ishnura elegans) rufescens form
Blue-tailed Damselfly (Ishnura elegans)
Small Spotty-eyed Dronefly (Erastalinus sepulchris)
Fen Mason Wasp (Odynerus simillimus)
Mosquito Sp
Parhelophilus Sp
The dreaded 'Pustule'??
Robber Fly Sp?
Blue Long-horned Snail Killer (Sepedon sphegea)
Red-legged Shield Bug (Final instar nymph) (Pentatoma rufipes)
Spider Sp?
Wasp Sp?
Ectemnius lapidarius?
Swallowtail (Papilio machaon)
Shield Biug Nymph
Sp?
Not sure enough of the colour.
Cranwich Heath
Black Horehound (Ballota nigra)
Rough Hawkbit (Leontodon hispidus)
Common Rockrose (Helianthemum nummularium)
Oak (Quercus robur)
Purple Milk-vetch (Astragalus danicus)
Pyramidal Orchid (Anacamptis pyramidalis)
Smooth Rupturewort (Herniaria glabra)