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Cowbane (Cicuta virosa)

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Sp? on Alder (Alnus glutinosa)

Might be the work of Caloptilla elongella or some other moth but really need to see what's inside.

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Alder Tongue (Taphrina aldi)

A fungal plant pathogen that produces chemically induced distortion of female catkins

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Sp? on Alder (Alnus glutinosa)

Mines of the Fly (Agromyza alnivora)

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Ferruginous Bee-grabber (Sicus ferrugneus)

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A darkling beetle Diaperis boleti

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Carabus granulatus

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Willow Tarspot (Rhytisma salicinum)

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Small yellow disco on Bracken and the black dots are something else.

To be confirmed

This was found to be Hyaloscypha flaveola

The black dots are

Mycospaerella pteridis

Thanks to SW

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Pale Brittlestem (Candolleomyces candolleanus)

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Rust? on ?

Ustilago striiformis on Purple Small-reed (Calamogrostis canescens)

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Five-spot Burnet (Zygaena trifolii) with very pale spots

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Oak Bush Cricket? (Meconema thalassinum)

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Caddisfly Sp?

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Common Maze Gill (Datronia mollis)

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Cranefly Sp?

Achyrolimonia decemmaculata

Thanks to SW

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Deer Fly Sp?

After some discussion this turned out to be

Square-spot Deerfly (Chrysops viduatus)

Mid-tibia is pale. Hind tibia is dark

&

the lower image gives a clear indication

of the yellow side of the abdomen

Chrysops Id Guide from the Dipterists Forum

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Fungus attacked Cranefly

Marsh Cranefly (Tipula oleracea) attacked by the fungus Entomophaga tipulae

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Neoerysiphe geranii

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Golden Crust Fungus (Botryobasidium aureum)

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Green Colonel (Oplodontha viridula)

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Fiscidea lightfootii

Not the best of images but the second image clearly shows the UV reaction of this particular Lichen

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Green Leafy Lichen ?

Cladonia conicraea

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Leiobunum rotundum

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Helophilus hybridus ♂︎ ?

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A Hop Mildew (Podosphaera macularis)

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Rough-leaved Hydrangea (Hydrangea aspera)

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Hyphomyctes Sp?

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The Cypress Knee

Swamp Cypress (Taxodium distichum)

Despite many theories it is still not known why the trees have knees.

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Lecanora sulphurea with Lecanora pannonica

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Tephromela atra

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Birch Catkin Bug (Kleidocerys resedae)?

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Lichenicolous fungi on Physcia adscendens

Zyzygomyces physciacearum

from

Irish Lichens

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Lichenicolous fungus (unknown)

on

Leconora hybocarpa

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Peniophora limitata

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Longhorn Beetle Sp

Four-banded Longhorn Beetle (Leptura quadrifasciata)

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Mosquito Sp?

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Mycena Sp?

Mycena corynephora - much like the commoner M tenerrima but without a basal pad.

Thanks to TL

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Norfolk Hawker (Aeshna isoscles)

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Royal Fern (Osmunda regalis)

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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.

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Bracken Map (Rhopographus filicinus) for comparison.

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Pantaloon Bee ♀︎ (Dasypoda hirtirpes) hunkering well down in an Evening Primrose (Oenanthera biennis)

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A huddle of Parent Bugs (Elasmucha grisea)

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Passion Flower (Passiflora caerulea)

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Marsh Pennywort (Hydroctyle vulgaris) flowers

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Opilio canestrinii

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Hemp-agrimony Plume (Adaina microdactyla gall.

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Dialonectria diatrypicola growing on Daitrype bullata

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Hypoxylon howeianum

Amazing growth patterns

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Remote Sedge (Carex remota)

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Floating Crystalwort (Riccia fluitans)

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Jointed Rush (Juncus articulatus) ?

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Common Yellow Sedge (Crex demissa)

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Sp?

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Slime Mold Sp

Stemonitis axifera

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Big Smokey Bracket (Bjerkandera fumosa)

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Caucasian Wingnut (Pterocarya fraxinifolia)

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Southern Hawker♂︎(Aeshna cyanea) with friends??

@Migrantdragons commented these were biting midges (Forcipomyia paludis), which are quite local in Britain.

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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)

Confirmed by Brian via Twitter

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Stictus arundinaceae on dead Reed Stem (Phragmites australis)?

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Camarasporum oreades on dead leaf - Sweet Chestnut (Castanea sativa)

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Taphrina tosquinetii on living leaf - Alder (Alnus glutinosa)

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Tuberous Polypore (Polyporus tuberaster)

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Velvet Rollrim (Tapinella atromentosa)

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Five-banded Weevil Wasp ♀︎(Cerceris quinquefasciata)

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Yellow-tail Moth (Euproctis similis)

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Yukka Leafspot (Coniothyrium concentricum)?

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Collared Parachute (Marasmius rotula)