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Whitlingham Marsh
Crab Spider Sp (Xysticus ulmi)
Small Green Beetle/Weevil caught by a Crab Spider. (Xysticus ulmi)
Crane Fly Sp
Dock Bug (Coreus marginatus)
24 Spot Ladybird (Subcoccinalla vigintiquatuorpunctata)
Cream-spot Ladybird (Calvia quattuordecimguttata))?
Mayfly (Ephemera danica)
Nettle Curl (Urtica dioica)
Flavous/Panzeri Nomad Bee
Common Soldier Beetle (Cantharis pellucida)
immature ♀︎ (yellow shoulder stripes)
adult ♀︎
adult♀︎
Large Red Damsel Fly (Pyrrhosoma nymphula) (Form typica)
Green Orb Weever (Arienella cucurbitina)
Weevil Sp? (Phyllobius pomacius)
Alder Fly (Sialis lutaria)
Green Alkanet (Pentaglottis sempervirens)
Cow Parsley (Anthriscus sylvestris)
Red-breasted Carrion Beetle (Oiceoptoma thoracicum)
Damsel Fly Sp - Azure Damselfly??
Hanworth
Goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis)
Bee
Eupeodes luniger
Flavous Nomad Bee ♀︎ (Nomada flava)
Red Mason Bee ♂︎ (Osmia bicormis)
Hanworth
Green Shiedlbug (Palomena prisina)
Complete with eggs.
Red Mason Bee ♂︎ (Osmia bicormis)
Beeston Common
Three-cornered Garlic (Allium triquetrum)
Slime Mold Sp?
Not a brilliant photograph but in the right area now. They had completely exploded before I had a chance to do any more.
Just need to find some more.
Common Jelly Spot (Dacrymyces stillatus)
Snowy Disco (Lachnum virgeneum)
Hymenoscyphus repandus
Lachanella alboviolascens
A magnified version using a 10X microscope objective.
Typhula micans on Great Willow Herb
A magnified version suing 5x life size lens.
Lachanella alboviolascens
Fungi 1 ? on Lichen
Fungi 2 ? on Gorse
Hymenoscyphus repandus again probably.
Yellow Brain (Tremella mesenterica)
Fungus of Herb Robert Leaves (Geranium robertianum) Hormetheca robertiani
Found on Hawthorn leaves Monilia johsonii The book says 'effuse' but I would say delightful scent. When leaves are kept in a box for while the scent really jumps out at you.
Hawthorn Flowers (Crataegus monogyna)
Yellow Field Cap ( Bolbitius titubans) One of the shortest lived of all mushrooms
Found on the end of a sawn trunk. ?
Fungus 3 ? nestled down amongst the Swan's Neck Thyme Moss (Mnium hornum)
Coprinellus flocculosus
Orange Bonnet (Mycena acicula)
Hypoxylon howeanum
Fungi 4?
Fungus on Rhododendron Leaf Mycosphaerella rhododendri
Thanks to Tony Moverley for the id.
Slime Mold Sp ?
Soldier Fly (Beris chalybata)
Spider Sp
A tiny fungus on the mid ribs of decaying Sycamore. Fungus 6 ?
Wasp Spider egg sac.
Weevil Sp
Scorpion Fly (Panorpa communis)
Caddis Fly Sp?
Large Bittercress (Cardamine amara)
This
Lovely
imprints of dead leaves as well.
Became this after about 150 stacked photos. Hard and crinkly on Blackthorn (Prunus spinosa) ?
This did in fact turn out to be something fungal rather than a gall.
Erupting from the branch
Tympanis Sp
Became
Encoelia fuckellii
Thanks to Stewart Wright for id
Drinker Moth Caterpillar (Euthrix potatoria)
Scutelinia Sp or not Scutelinia Sp Fungus 7 ?
Knobbly black cups? Fungus 8?
Using a 5x life size lens.
Bluebell Rust (Uromyces mascara)
Lachenella villosa
Similar to lachenella alboviolesens but with different spores and has basidia.
Reed Mat Disco (Trichobelonium kneiffii) growing on the decaying reeds.
Dotted Thyme-moss (Rhizomnium punctatum)
Thanks to Yvonne Mynette for help with fungus ids and of course anyone else who can help.
Your name will appear here.
Hanworth
Water Violet (Hottonia palustris)
Flavous Nomad Bee ♂︎(Nomada flava)
Fungi Sp Pizzeza Sp?
St Mark's Fly (BIbio marci)
Felbrigg
Dryad's Saddle (Cerioporus squamosus)
Cushion Moss (Leucobryum glaucum)
Holt Country Park
View over Holt Lowes from Holt Country Park
Fresh Beech leaves (Fagus sylvatica)
Bird's-nest Orchid (Neottia nidus-advis)
Cuckoo Pint (Arum alpinum)
Rhododendron ponticum
Ashwellthorpe Wood
Hazel (Corylus avellana) coppice and Ransoms (Alliun ursinium)
Ramsoms (Allium ursinium)
Top picture the original
Bottom picture a focus stacked version.
Cranefly Sp ?
Probably
Euphylidorea dispar
Dog's Mercury Rust (Melampsora populnea)
Early Purple Orchid (Orchis mascula)
Eye Lash Fungus (Scutellinia cejpii)
King Alfred's Cakes (Daldania concentrica)
Hairy Bracket (Trametes hirsuta)
Hazel Nut Swirl
Interesting contortion of the leaves
Herb Paris (Paris quadrifolia)
Portevinia maculata
Hypoxylon petrinii
Adela reaumurella
UK Moths
Netted Crust Fungus (Byssomerulius corium)
Wolf's Milk ? 
Focussed stack version of the picture above it. Clearly shows the orange edges to the gills.
Psathyrella prona
Psathyrella spadiceogrisea
Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa
Soldier Fly Sp (Ptilocera Sp)
Not Quite
Probably
Beris chalybata
Spider Sp
Water Avens (Geum rivale)
Wood Avens 0r Herb Bennet (Geum urbanum)
wood Sedge 
Something on the nettle stems.
Something else on the nettle stems - Calloria neglecta
Breaking out of a twig
Thanks
to
Tony Irwin for help with the insect ids
&
Yvonne Mynot with the fungi ids
Hanworth
Hairy-footed Flower Bee ♀︎ (Anthophora plumipes)
Hoverfly Sp
Syrphus ribesii ♀︎Femur yellow.
Eristalis pertinax ?
Epistrophe elegans ♂︎? 0n Broom (Cytisus scoparium)
Flavous Nomad Bee (Nomada flava ♂︎)
Cardinal Beetle (Pyrochroa serraticornis)
The King's Forest - Thetford
Just on the side of the road B1106 Thetford to Bury St Edmunds road some wonderful old Lime & Beech
Common Lime (Tilia x europea)
Beech (Fagus sylvatica)
with an accompaniment of
Danish Scurvy Grass
on the edge of the road.
Danish Scurvygrass (Cochleara danica)
Lackford Lakes
Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus)
Common Corn Salad (Valarianella locusta)
Smokey Bracket (Bjerkandera adusta)
Hobby (Falco subbuteo)
Heath Cudweed (Gnaphalium sylvaticus)
Red-girdled Mining Bee (Andrena labiata)
Hanworth
Epistrophe elegans ♂︎
Cheilosia pagana ♀︎?
Nomada Sp ♂︎? Panzeri/flava
St Mark's Fly (Bibio marci)
Common Wasp (Vespula vulgaris)
Weybourne
Creeping Buttercup (Ranunculus repens)
Fly Sp waiting patiently for a Bee
Ichneumon Sp covered in the white pollen from the Alexanders
Painted Nomad ♂︎(Nomada fucata)
Painted Nomad ♀︎ (Nomada fucata)
St Mark's Fly (Bibio marci)
Yellow-legged Mining Bee (Andrena flavipes)
Hanworth
Field Pansy (Viola arvensis)
Wild Wallflower (Erysimum cheiri)
Houghen Plantation
Hoof Fungus (Fomes fomentarius)
Woodwart Sp on Silver Birch (Hypoxylon Sp)
Green Orb-Weaver (Arienella cucurbitina)
Gorse Seed Weevil (Exapion ulicis)
Fascinating details from
The Cabinet of Curiosities
Gooden's Nomad Bee (Nomada goodeniana) ♂︎
Platycheirus Sp ♀︎(Platycheirus albimanus)
Drone Fly (Eristalis pertinax)
Hind Tibia black & white
Heath Cudweed ? (Gnaphalium sylvaticum)
Fungi or Lichen ? on a Silver Birch log
False Puffball or Cauliflower Slimemold (Enteridium lycoperdon)
Two of the three stages. The top picture shows the mature stage with a papery slimey skin.
The lower picture shows an earlier stage. This was much softer of a marshmallow like texture and it holds finger imprints.
Eye Lash Fungi (Scutellineia subhirtella)
Myriosclerotinia curreyana growing on old Juncus stems
The absolute surprise of the day. I thought I would have to go to Scotland to see these. Diminutive yet so vibrant.
Bog Beacon (Mitrula paludosa) in amongst Flat-topped Bog Moss (Sphagnum fallax)
Spring Pin (Cudoniella clavus)
Good for Bog beacon & Mosses and quiet afternoon picnics
Coprinopsis stercorea on Cow Dung 
Heather Weevil (Micrelus ericae) One of two small heather Weevils. This one with red nose and red legs.
Mollisia Sp
Mixed Mollisia Sp (probably Mollisia cinerea) & Orbilla xanthostigma
Heath Rustic Caterpillar 
A very pale Golden Dung Fly (Scathophaga stercoraria)
Holly Speckle (Trochila ilicina) that is covering the upper side of the Holly Leaf doesn't generally go through to the underside of the leaf.
Holly Leaves a tough job for Fungi
A very strange coating on submerged plant debris in the channel below the dam on the Houghen Plantation. Difficult to photograph because of the reflections.
Bog Groove-moss (Aulucomnium palustre)
Thanks to James Emerson and Steve Judd for comments and corrections.
Many thanks also to Yvonne for the fungi corrections
