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)
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.
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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