Foxley Wood
A ride & glades in Foxley Wood
Mining Bee Sp (Andrena Sp) on Creeping Buttercup
Stenocorus meridianus
Red-breasted Carrion Beetle (Oiceoptoma thoracium)
Common Spotted Orchid (Dactylorhiza fuschii)
Common Vetch (Vicia sativa)
Crested dog's-tail (Cynosurus cristatus)
Blowing Bubbles on a lazy Sunday afternoon
Froghopper nymph spittle bugging
Aphrophora salicina
Hoverfly Sp?
Ferdinandia cuprea
Meliscaeva cinctella ? Perhaps
Xylota segnis
Volucella bombylans
Entomopathegenic Fungus that attacks the Fly's brain such that it climbs high on the plant, it's
proboscis sticks to the plant and the wing are held in such a way as to provide a form of dispersal slide for the spores of the fungus.
Little Nomad Bee (Nomada flavoguttata)
The smallest Nomad
The two yellow spots held with id.
Pignut Inflorescence (Conopodium majus)
Rush Sp
Juncus Sp Hard / Soft Rush? Must feel the stem.
Hard Rush (Juncus influxes) Ridges on the stem
Psathyrella candoleana
Sawfly Sp (Tenthredo mesomela)
Remote Sedge (Carex remota)
False Fox-sedge (Carex otrubae) perhaps?
Forget-me-not Shieldbug (Sehirus luctosus)
Diaea dorsata
Water Avens (Geum rivale)
Gall Sp?
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