Whitlingham
Greater Black Spruce Bark Aphid (Cinara piceae)
A huge colony spreading up through the tree. The branches were covered in places, particularly the undersides.
Huge numbers on a table covered in tyres beneath the tree.
No ants present as far as could be seen.
Wheatfen
Marsh Marigold (Caltha palustris)
Flat Bug Sp
Aradus depressus
The most common UK Flatbug but not often recorded
from
British Bugs
Case Bearer Moth Sp?
Rust (Puccinia phragmites) on Dock (Rumex Sp) ?
This rusts alternates with Phragmites and this is stage 1 - Purple blotches bearing aecia
Eggs Sp? pn Water Dock (Rumex hydrolapathum)
Little Plumstead
Zebra Spider (Salticus scenicus)?
from
BAS
22 Spot Ladybird (Psyllobora virgintiduopunctata)
Spring Vetch - Lathryrus vernus 'Alboroseus'
Fungus Sp
Red-girdled Mining Bee (Andrena labiata)
Andrena Sp?
Andrena Sp ?
Hawthorn Mining Bee (Andrena chrysosceles)?
Downy mildew - Blumeria dactylidis
Woundwort Case-bearer (Coloephora lineolea) on Lamb's Ears (Stachys byzantina)
Corn Salad (Valeriana locusta)
Corydalis Sp
Red Currant Aphid (Cryptomyzus ribis)
Something on Primrose (Primula vulgaris)
Alpine Wallflower (Erysimum Sp)?
Kentish Snail (Monacha cantiana)
Golden Pea (Lathyrus aureus)
Iris Sp
Scarce Variegated Oak Aphid (Lachnus longorostris)
Campion Aphid (Brachycaudus lychnidis - group)
Rosa banksiae 'Lutea'
Stubble Rosegill (Volvopluteus gloiocephalus)
Fern Smut Caterpillar (Psychoides verhuella)
Philostichtis japonica
x400
Winter Aconite Smut (Urocystis eranthidis) on Winter Aconite (Eranthis hyemelis)
Hanworth
Ashy Mining Bee ♀︎s (Andrena cineraria)
Andrena ♂︎ Sp
Gery-patched Mining Bee ♀︎ (Andrena nitida)
Ant dragging prey. Weevil?
Nest hole?
Gooden's Nomad Bee ♀︎ (Nomada goodeniana)
Lathbury's Nomad Bee ♀︎(Nomada lathburiana)
Orange Top ♂︎(Anthocaris cardamines)
Upton Fen
Primrose (Primula vulgaris)
Common Snout (Rhinga campestris)
Eutypella leprosa
Bird Cherry (Prunus padus)
Monilinia padi
An old description found by Stewart
From Mycologia 5(2): 51 (1913) as Oospora hinhartiana
Effused, thin, grey-white, spreading along petioles and veins of leaves, mycelium scanty, septate, hyaline; sporophores short
simple or branched, with chains of spores; spores globose, sub globose or ellipsoid 10-12 x 12-28
Wonderful
But
sadly the writer forgot
the
Heavenly Scent
Stewart has since completed more detailed research on this species.
There appears to be no doubt that Monilinia padi is a good name. It is given as the preferred name for the species on Species Fungorum and all references on the genus seem to include it.
There are records from the USA (It is described in Seaver, The North American Cup-fungi (Inoperculates, which references the original description under that name by Honey, American Journal of Botany 23: 105 (1936)) : 52 (1951) as Monilinia padi)
and mainland Europe, but it is not on the NBN Atlas and I can't find any reference to it having been seen here.
It seems surprising that it hasn't been recorded here and I wonder if perhaps it has been lost due to a rather confusing choice of nomenclature.
Saccardo described this fungus on Prunus padus using the name Monilia linhartiana. (Saccardo, Sylloge fungorum omnium hucusque cognitorum 4: 33 (1886)
Later Dennis proposed the new name of Monilinia linhartiana f(Monilinia linhartiana on Cydonia in Mycological Papers 62: 141 (1914)or the similar fungus on Quince,
acknowledging that linhartiana had already been used by Saccardo for a different fungus,
This seems to me to be an unnecessary source for potential confusion and I wondered if there might be records of M. hinhartiana on Prunus padus.
But there are no records of M. linhartiana on the NBN Atlas at all, so perhaps it is just a neglected genus.
and
in a note to L
I think that I have exhausted all of the references available to me, so I would love to know what you think.
No records of M. linhartiana on the NBN Atlas at all, so perhaps it is just a neglected genus.
Dialonectria episphaeria on Birch Woodwart (Jackrogersella multiformis)
Berlesiella nigerrima on Birch Woodwort (Jackrogersella multifprmis)
Lesser Celandine (Ficaria verna) Rust (Uromyces dactylidis)
Bog Stitchwort (Stellaria alsine)
Weevil Sp
Limnobaris dolorosa
or
L t-album
Tapesia fusca on Alder (Alnus glutinosa)
Growing on a brown felty mat?
Orbillia eucalypti on Alder (Alnus glutinosa)
Ochre Spreading Tooth (Stecherrinum ochraceum)
Psathyrella spadiceogrisea
from Yvonne
The Psathyrella wasn't candolleana as it had pleurocystidia
Wild Currant (Ribes rubrum)?
Unfurling Marsh Fern (Thelypteris palustris)
Cuckoo Flower (Cardamine pratensis)
Alder Spittlebug (Aphrophora alni) succumbed to Beauvaria bassiana
Bog Myrtle Flower (Myrica gale)
From Yvonne
The conocybe turned out to be a Galerina and I didn't think I would be able to do it but the cheilocystidia were very distinctive.
Thus Galerina clavata but never 100% sure with these.
?
Yellow Fieldcap (Bolbitius titubans)
Lycogala terrestre
Thick Tarcrust (Camerops polysperma)
Slime Mold Sp
Reticularia lycoperdon
Nemannia confluens
A slightly confusing young colony of what could be either Physcomitrium or Funaria.
They are almost impossible to tell apart at this stage.
But in amongst them were the more obvious adult strands of Bonfire Moss (Funaria hygrometrica)
Bonfire Moss (Funaria hygrometrica)
Orange Tip ♂︎ (Anthocaris cardamines)
Melanopsamma pomiformis
40x
200x
Tall Thyme-moss (Plagiomnium elatum)
The leaf cells are longer than wide and arranged in diagonal rows.
The leaf base runs broadly down the stem.
Scirrhia rimosa on Phragnites australis
Lichen Sp
Arachnopeziza auranta on a cobwebby subiculum
Angle Shades (Phlogophora meticulosa)
Santon Downham
Jet Ants (Laus fuliginosus) shepherding Giant Maple Aphid (Stomaphis grafii)
Bird's-foot (Ornithopus perpusillus)
Field Mouse-ear (Cerastium arvense)
Ivy-leaved Toadflax (Cymbalaria muralis)
Shepherd's Cress (Teesdalia nudicaulis)
And
One more
A
fungus on Resin
Zythia resinae
from
somewhere
completely different
Zythia resinae
Lynford
Bird Cherry (Prunus padus)
Common Neobiscid (Neobisium carcinoides)
Coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara)
Metallina segmentata?
Spider Sp
Rilaena tringularis
Early Colletes (Colletes cunicularius)
First seen waiting outside a host's nest.
She was underground for 37 minutes before she returned to the entrance.
She then spent another 30 + minutes in and out of the nest entrance never fully revealing herself.
The wind, a flash and our presence all contributing to her remaining there perhaps.
In the immediate vicinity < 30cm two other females were busy clearing out nests.
This individual then sat out in the open for a a good five minutes allowing these photographs. and four other photographers.
Giant Blood Bee (Sphecodes albilabris)
Bradfield Woods - Suffolk
Dark-edged Bee-fly (Bombylius major)
Dog's Mercury (Mercurialis perennis)
Hovefly Sp?
Oxlip (Primula elatior)
Pendulous Sedge (Carex pendula)
Common Dog Violet ( Viola riviniana)
Wood Anemone (Anemoneoides nemorosa)
Wood Spurge (Euphorbia amydaloides)
Water Avens (Geum rivale)
Devil's Dyke - Suffolk
Oregon Grape (Berberis aquifolium)
Pasque Flower (Pulsitilla vulgaris)
Hanworth
Meadow Foxtail ( Alopecurus arvensis)
Roe Deer (Capreolus capreolus)
North Denes
Mazzantia angelicae
Alternaria ramulosa
Wall Speedwell (Veronica arvensis)
x400
Bluebell Rust (Uromyces hyacinthi) produces only one type of spore - (teliospores (that have a stalk)
so this rust completes its life cycle on one host. The spores are capable of over wintering, so can produce fresh infections the following year.
Whiteknights Biodiversity 2010
Some rusts can produce as many as five different types of spores in a complex life cycle growing on different hosts at different times of the year.
♀︎s
Early Colletes (Colletes cunicularius)
Sea Mouse-ear (Cerastium diffusum)
Morenoina epilobii - Linear black thyriothecia scattered on dead stem of Rosebay Willowherb
Sea Sandwort (Honckenya peploides)
24 Spot Ladybird (Cocinnella vigintiquatuorpunctata)
Septoria stellariae
on
Lesser Chickweed (Stellaria aptela)
Ruby Tiger (Phragmatobia fuliginosa)
Pupa cases
Marram Grass Chelifer (Dactylochelifer latrellii)
Sea Holly (Eryngium planum)
Garden Snail (Cornua aspersum)?
Snail Id
from
Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire & Northamptonshire Wildlife Trusts
Bishop's Mitre Shiield Bug (Aelia acuminata)
Weevil Sp
Attactagenus plumbeus
Rhizines x400
Foliose Lichen on the Sand Dunes
Key O
Peltigera - Usually large, loosely attached, often by course rhizines. Apothecia with red brown discs.
Rhizines do not meet at the base, loose fibres somewhat bottle brush shaped. Thickly grey-white tomentose. grey when dry, brown when wet. Undersurface white to tan, usually with conspicuous veins and long, rather loose, fibrous hairy to bottle brush shaped rhizines discrete and not usually meeting at their base.
Dog Lichen Sp
Peltigera membranacea
from
the
Lorn Natural History Group
Show & Tell
Courtesy of Stewart
Tremella versicolor on Peniophora
A spider completely enveloped.
Lecanicillium tenuipes
Forget-me-mot Downy Mildew (Perinospora myosotidis)
Calosphaeria pulchella
These are dried specimens so will probably look quite different when rehydrated.
Spore image from the Broom that was found on the BMS FORAY
NOT SEEN SINCE THE 1860s
Ostropa barbara
Cley
Marsh Harrier (Circus aeruginosus)
Brent (Branta bernicla)
Black-tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa)
Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)
Walsey Hills
Alexanders (Smyrnium olusatrum)
Aeciospores (1) of a rust fungus
in this case
Alexanders Rust (Puccinia smythii)
BeeSp?
Cliff Mining Bee (Andrena thoracica)♀︎
Blackthorn (Prunus spinosa))
Furry Drone-fly (Eristalis intricaria)
Weybourne
♂︎
♀︎
Hairy-footed Flower Bee (Anthophora plumipes)
Common Mourning Bee (Melecta albifrons)
Sea Thrift (Armeria maritima)
Green Tiger Beetle (Cicindela campestris)
Yellow-legged Mining Bee (Andrena flavipes)
Norwich
Cliff Mining Bee (Andrena thoracica)♀︎
♂︎
♀︎
Gery-patched Mining Bee (Andrena Nitida)
Grey-gastered Mining Bee (Andrena tibialis) ♀︎
Large Gorse Mining Bee (Andrena bimaculata)?
Chocolate Vine (Akebia quinata)
Common Spotted Field Syrph (Eupeodes luniger)
Hairy - footed Flower Bee ♂︎ (Anthophora plumipes)
Flower Crab Spider (Misunema vatia)
Zebra Spider (Salticus scenicus)
Hanworth
Orange-tailed Mining Bee ♂︎ (Andrena haemorrha)
Buffish Mining Bee ♂︎(Andrena nigroeana)
Broadland Country Park
Beech Scale
Scale Insect - Cryptococcus fagisuga
Beech Wart (Hypoxylon fragiforme)
Common Gorse (Ulex europaeus)
Physcia adscendens with Black Apothecia
A lichenicolous fungi also present perhaps.
Lichen Sp
Could well be Phytophthera bleeding on Beech (Fagus sylvatica)
Male plants - Juniper Haircap (Polytrichum juniperinum)
Down in the Chestnut Grove,
Once learnt the fieldcraft for finding truffles.
(Follow the local residents scratchings.)
There was no stopping them.
Thanks to field skills tutor
False Truffle (Elaphomyces granulata)
x1000
Spores
Vapourer (Orgyia antiqua)
A Few from the BMS Foray
Dasycyphella nivea on Oak
Mycoacia aurea on Poplar
Phanerchoate velutina
Postia cf populi on Poplar
Rosellinia corticium on Hedera Sp
Rosellinia Sp
Henningspmyces candidus on Poplar