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Golden-bloomed Grey Longhorn Beetle (Agapanthia villosovoredescens)

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A Darkling Beetle (Diaperis boleti)

UK Beetles

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Fungus Sp

Willow Bracket (Phellinus igniarus)

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Sp?

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Garden Chafer (Phyllopertha horticola)

UK Beetles

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Choke (Epichloe Sp) ?

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♀︎

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Dull-winged Chrysogaster (Chrysogaster solstitialis)

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Fungus Sp

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

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Coprinopsis Sp

Probably Coprinopsis lagopus

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Phantom cranefly Sp

Ptychoptera contaminata

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Dark Bush-cricket Nymph (Pholidoptera griseoaptera)

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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

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Might this be Coenosia tigrina

Compare to Nature Spot

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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.

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Lachnella albovorescens

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Cream Spot Ladybird (Calvia quatuordecimgutta)

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Longhorn Moth (Nemaphora degeerella)

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Wolf's Milk (Lycogala epidendrum)

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Nettle Weevil (Phyllobius pomaceus)

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Orbilia Sp

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Fungus Sp

Twig Parachute (Marasmiellus ramealis)

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Orange Mosscap (Rickenella fibula)

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Common Red-legged Robberfly (Dioctria rufipes)

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Common Red-legged Robberfly (Dioctria rufipes)


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?

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Drepanopeziza ribes

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Vibrissea filisporia

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Eye Lash Fungus (Scutellinia Sp)

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Final Instar Nymph

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Mid Instar Nymph

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Mid Instar Nymph

Red-legged Shieldbug (Pentatoma rufipes)

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Tree Bumble Bee (Bombus hypnorum)

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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


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Pellucid Fly (Volucella pellucens)

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Fungus Sp?

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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.

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Aphid Sp on Dock

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Pyrenopeziza urticola



Thanks everyone for another great day.

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Opposite-leaved Golden Saxifrage (Chrysosplenium oppositifolium)

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Elf Cup Sp

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Dilated Scalewort (Frullenia dilatata)

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Town Hall Clock (Adoxa moschatellina)

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A Hawthorn (Craetagus monogyna) growing through a SIlver Birch (Betulus Sp)

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Lateral Cryphaea (Cryphea heteromalla)

A moss with shoot dimorphism.
The primary stem laying adpressed to the bark of a tree but the fruiting shoots projecting stiffly away from the bark.

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Minute pouncewort (Myriocoleopsis minutissima)

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Enchnanter's Nightshade (Circaea lutetiana) broad basal leaves.

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A splendid happy patterned partnership of Dilated Scalewort (Frullania dilatata) {brown} and Forked Veilwort (Metzgeria furcata)

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This time fading into a Lichen Sp as well

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The unmistakeable lime green of Bird's-claw beard-moss (Barbula unguiculata)

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Dry, tightly rolled Hornschuch's Beard-moss (Pseudocrossidium horschuchianum)

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Probably Nostoc (Cyanobacteria) rather than a Lichen.

Troll's butter, spit of moon, fallen star, witch's jelly being among the panoply of names from Wikipedia.

The name going all the way back to Paracelsus 1493-1541

A combination of of the English 'nostril' and German "Nasenloch"

In other words

Snot Like

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Mature sporophytes

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Overleaf Pellia (Pellia epiphylla)

Monoicious - Male & female organs on the same thallus.

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Even Scalewort (Radula complanata) with gemmae on the leaf margins.

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Forked Scalewort (Metzgeria furcata)

A dioecious species

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A well colonised & spectacular rootplate

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A stump engulfed.

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Wet woodland

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Willow Moss (Fontanalis antipyretica)

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Large mouse-tail Moss (Isothecium alopecuroides)

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