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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.

Tags: SoftRush, RaggedRobin, HardRush, FlatSedge, CompactRush, LeafyRush, GreatSUndew, Round-leavedSundew, ToothedMedick, ToothedMedick, BroadBucklerFern, WildRadish, RoughClover, MeadowThistle, MarshHelleborine, StJohn'sWort, SweetVernalGrass, FleaSedge, LustrousBog-moss, CarnationSedge, MarshValerian, MeadowVetchling, BulbousRush, DeadlyNightshade, Landscape, SpringVetch, PurpleBroomrape, CommonBroomrape, KidneyVetch, BlueFleabane, PyramidalOrchid, BlackBogRush, SandCatchfly, MarshArrowGrass, CommonSpottedOrchid, HeathGrass, InlandRush, WildRadish, Blunt-floweredRush

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)

Tags: Landscape, BlackHorehound, RoughHawkbit, CommonRockrose, Oak, PurpleMilk-vetch, PyramidalOrchid, SmoothRupturewort

Marsh Orchid (Dactylorhiza praetermissa)



Spike Rush Sp



False Fox Sedge (Carex otrobae)







Toad Rush (Juncus bufonius)















Hairy-legged Horsefly (Hybomitra bimaculata)



Four-spotted Chaser (Libellula quadrimaculata)





Tooth-thighed Hoverfly (Tripidia scita)









Peacock caterpillars. (Aglais io)



Yvonne's Comments

They keyed out to

Psathyrella rubiginosa

but

this isn’t on the British list?

I’ve been
through the key a few times and can’t get it to anything else. This group is
notoriously difficult so I can’t really be sure. I have dried the specimens.





Cow Bane (Cicuta virosa)





Eye-lash Fungus

Yvonne's comments

I used the Malcolm Greaves’ on-line key to identify the Scutellinia
and
it was

S. superba

which describes it well I think !





Psathyrella Sp

Psathyrella typhae



Blunt-flowered Rush (Juncus subnodulosus_















Sp?



Two-banded Spearhorn (Chrysotoxum bicintum)




Caterpillar Sp?







Oak Curtain Crust (Hymenochaete rubiginosa)





Ascobolus lignatilis



Slime Mold Sp

Stemonitopsis typhina ?







Spider Sp



Young Springtails (Collembola Sp)



A tiny presumed Vibrissea Sp on an Oak Leaf

Vibrissea cesatii



Plasmopara densa on Yellow Rattle (Rhinanthus minor)

Although I should have turned it over as well.















Small Yellow-girdled Tenthredo (Tenthredo temula)



The reverse of a Bog Myrtle leaf showing the tiny yellow oil glands
that give the plant its characteristic sweet aroma



Groundhopper Sp





Cheilosia illustrata



Ferruginous Bee-grabber (Sicus ferrugineus)











Being attacked by an Empis Fly?



Green Colonel (Oplodontha viridula)

Tags: MarshOrchid, SpikeRushSp, Hairy-leggedHorsefly, SlimeMoldSp, SpiderSp, SprintailSp, VibrisseaSp, SmallYellow-girdledTenthredo, GroundhopperSp, Cheilosiaillustrata, FerruginousBee-grabber, GreenColonel, FalseFoxSedge, ToadRush, Landscape, CowBane, EyelashFungus, PsathyrellaSp, Two-bandedSpearhorn, Four-spottedChaser, Tooth-thighedHoverfly, Peacock, Landscape

Marsh Orchid (Dactylorhiza praetermissa)



Spike Rush Sp



False Fox Sedge (Carex otrobae)







Toad Rush (Juncus bufonius)















Hairy-legged Horsefly (Hybomitra bimaculata)



Four-spotted Chaser (Libellula quadrimaculata)





Tooth-thighed Hoverfly (Tripidia scita)









Peacock caterpillars. (Aglais io)



Yvonne's Comments

They keyed out to

Psathyrella rubiginosa

but

this isn’t on the British list?

I’ve been
through the key a few times and can’t get it to anything else. This group is
notoriously difficult so I can’t really be sure. I have dried the specimens.





Cow Bane (Cicuta virosa)





Eye-lash Fungus

Yvonne's comments

I used the Malcolm Greaves’ on-line key to identify the Scutellinia
and
it was

S. superba

which describes it well I think !





Psathyrella Sp

Psathyrella typhae



Blunt-flowered Rush (Juncus subnodulosus_















Sp?



Two-banded Spearhorn (Chrysotoxum bicintum)




Caterpillar Sp?







Oak Curtain Crust (Hymenochaete rubiginosa)





Ascobolus lignatilis



Slime Mold Sp

Stemonitopsis typhina ?







Spider Sp



Young Springtails (Collembola Sp)



A tiny presumed Vibrissea Sp on an Oak Leaf

Vibrissea cesatii



Plasmopara densa on Yellow Rattle (Rhinanthus minor)

Although I should have turned it over as well.















Small Yellow-girdled Tenthredo (Tenthredo temula)



The reverse of a Bog Myrtle leaf showing the tiny yellow oil glands
that give the plant its characteristic sweet aroma



Groundhopper Sp





Cheilosia illustrata



Ferruginous Bee-grabber (Sicus ferrugineus)











Being attacked by an Empis Fly?



Green Colonel (Oplodontha viridula)

Tags: MarshOrchid, SpikeRushSp, Hairy-leggedHorsefly, SlimeMoldSp, SpiderSp, SprintailSp, VibrisseaSp, SmallYellow-girdledTenthredo, GroundhopperSp, Cheilosiaillustrata, FerruginousBee-grabber, GreenColonel, FalseFoxSedge, ToadRush, Landscape, CowBane, EyelashFungus, PsathyrellaSp, Two-bandedSpearhorn, Four-spottedChaser, Tooth-thighedHoverfly, Peacock, Landscape

A view across the camp



Soft Brome (Bromus hordeaceus)







Cinnamon Bug (Corizus hyoscami)



















Spanish Catchfly (Silene otites)







Common Broomrape (Oranche minor)



Creeping Cinquefoil (Potentilla reptans)



Eyebright Sp (Euphrasia Sp)







Crested Hair Grass (Koeleria macrantha)





Cryptocephalus aureolus ?





Knotted Clover (Trifolium striatum)



Wild Mignonette (Reseda lutea)



Purple Milk-vetch (Astragalus danicus)



Mouse-ear Hawkweed (Pilosella officinarum)





Pyramidal Orchid (Anacamptis pyramidalis)





Red Bartsia (Odontites vernus)





Rough Clover (Trifolium scabrum)



Rust on Goat Willow (Salix caprea)



Rye grass Sp?

Perennial Rye Grass (Lolium perenne)?





Biting Stonecrop (Sedum acre)



Timothy (Phleum pratense)





Viper's-bugloss (Echium vulgare)







Ant Sp





Euphordia Sp

Tags: Landscape, SoftBrome, CinnamonBug, SpanishCatchfly, CommonBroomrape, AntSp, WildMignonette, PurpleMilk-vetch, EuphorbiaSp, Mouse-earHawkweed, PyramidalOrchid, RedBartsia, RoughClover, BitingStonecrop, TimothyGrass, Viper's-bugloss, CreepingCinquefoil, EyebrightSp, BeetleSp, Hair's-footClover

Thick-headed Fly Sp (Conopid Sp)

Physocephala rufipes



Long-legged Fly Sp

Poecilobothrus nobilitatus ♂︎



Dolichopus Sp?





Snipe Fly (Chrysophilus cristatus)♂︎



Gall Sp ?



Eupeodes Sp?







Marsh Harrier (Circus aeruginosus)



Common Rush (Juncus effusus)









Saw Sedge (Cladium mariscus)



?



Spider Sp?





Tooth-thighed Hoverfly (Tropidia scita)

Tags: Landscape, MarshHarrier, ConopidFlySp, Long-leggedFlySp

Golden-bloomed Grey Longhorn Beetle (Agapanthia villosovoredescens)







A Darkling Beetle (Diaperis boleti)

UK Beetles



Fungus Sp

Willow Bracket (Phellinus igniarus)



Sp?







Garden Chafer (Phyllopertha horticola)

UK Beetles





Choke (Epichloe Sp) ?



♀︎



♀︎



♂︎

Dull-winged Chrysogaster (Chrysogaster solstitialis)



Fungus Sp

Radiating Black Hyphomycete (Bispora antennata) on ends of cut wood.





Coprinopsis Sp

Probably Coprinopsis lagopus



Phantom cranefly Sp

Ptychoptera contaminata



Dark Bush-cricket Nymph (Pholidoptera griseoaptera)





Elderflower (Sambucus nigra) Gall

If orange larva inside - Placochela nigripes A gall midge

from

Plant Miners of Europe

If white lava inside - Arnoldiola sambuci - Iniquiline of Placochela nigripes

from

Plant Miners of Europe



Might this be Coenosia tigrina

Compare to Nature Spot







You can see the very long necks of the mature Melanospora lagenaria fungus on Birch Polypore (Fomitopsis betulina)

There was a thought the small yellow circes with the black spot in the middle might be something else?

but tthe image below suggests they might be the growth point of long necks (bottom right of the image.)

Thoughts welcome please.





Lachnella albovorescens



Cream Spot Ladybird (Calvia quatuordecimgutta)





Longhorn Moth (Nemaphora degeerella)







Wolf's Milk (Lycogala epidendrum)



Nettle Weevil (Phyllobius pomaceus)



Orbilia Sp



Fungus Sp

Twig Parachute (Marasmiellus ramealis)



Orange Mosscap (Rickenella fibula)



Common Red-legged Robberfly (Dioctria rufipes)




Common Red-legged Robberfly (Dioctria rufipes)




?





Drepanopeziza ribes





Vibrissea filisporia



Eye Lash Fungus (Scutellinia Sp)



Final Instar Nymph



Mid Instar Nymph



Mid Instar Nymph

Red-legged Shieldbug (Pentatoma rufipes)





Tree Bumble Bee (Bombus hypnorum)



Mourning Wasp (Pemphredon lugubris)♂︎ caught in a spider's web.

&

confirmed via

UK Bees, Wasps & Ants Facebook page.

Tim Strudwick

At least two others seen around the large fallen Poplar



Pellucid Fly (Volucella pellucens)



Fungus Sp?











Usually very difficult to get a photo of these as they zip about so much.

But this one was having extended gorge on the grass pollen.

Living up to its English name.

Golden-tailed Leaf Licker (Xylota sylvarum)

Still moving quickly but on the same few leaves so possible to obtain a few shots of the same individual.



Aphid Sp on Dock





Pyrenopeziza urticola



Thanks everyone for another great day.

Tags: Landscape, Golden-bloomedGreyLonghornBeetle, Dull-wingedChrysogaster, TreeBumbleBee, Orange-beltedLeafLicker

Tags: Landscape

Ant S? + Aphid Sp? on Dock Sp (Rumex Sp)?

Curled leaves suggest Dock Aphid (Aphis rumicis)







Jet Ant (Lasius fuligonosus) + Aphid Sp? on Willow (Salix Sp)





Golden-bloomed Grey Longhorn Beetle (Agapanthia villosoviridescens)



Bagworm case



Bee Sp?

















Wheat Stem Borer





Chicken of the Woods (Laetiporus sulphureus)















Large Spearhorn (Chrysotoxum cautum)



Coleophora case on Silver Birch



Tipula luna?



Azure Damselfly (Coenagrion puella)



Eyelash Fungus Sp





Eyelash Fungus Sp

Scutellata olivescens







Fairy Inkcap (Coprinellus disseminatus)













Of all the nettles in the field

Just one

looked like this

5hrs
later
slightly less activity
but
otherwise
unchanged



Fungus Sp

Parasola auricome



Fungus Sp

Panaeolus fimicola



Fungus Sp

Parasola conopilea



Fungus Sp

Copronopsis kubickae



Fungus Sp

Possibly

Mycena speirea



Rust on Groundsel
(Puccinia lagenophorae)



Thick-legged Hoverfly (Syritta pipiens)



Orbilia Sp







Scarlet Pimpernel (Anagallis arvensis)



Crucifer Shieldbug (Eurydem oleracea)



Tetragnatha Sp?





Gypsywort (Lycopus europeaus)


Many Thanks to

Yvonne for the Fungi Ids

Tags: Landscape, DockAphid, JetAnt, Golden-bloomedGreyLonghorn, Bagworm, BeeSp, CraneflySp, FungusSp, GroundselRust, TetragnathaSp, Thick-leggedHoverfly, ChickenintheWoods, LargeSpearhorn, AzureDamselfly, EyelashFungus, CruciferShieldbug, ScarletPimpernel, Gypsywort, OrbiliaSp

Oak (Quercus robur)







Aphid Sp on Red Campion (Silene dioica)















Giant Fennel (Ferula communis)















Meadow Saxifrage (Saxifraga granulata)















Weevil Sp

Acorn Weevil (Curculio glandium)

Acorn Weevil from iNaturalist







Weevil Sp

Liophloeus tessilatus

Thanks @Norwichbirder for id.

Tags: WeevilSp, Oak, Landscape, MeadowSaxifrage, GiantFennel

Cuckoo Flower (Cardamine pratensis)

Tags: Landscape, CuckooFlower

Oak (Quercus robur)



Dog's Mercury (Mercurialis perennis)













Ramsons (Allium ursinum)

Tags: Landscape, Ramsons, Oak