This was a treat - "Madagascan Spiny Solanum"

Is this Solanum pyracanthos - Prickly Orange or Spiny Tomato



Cauchas fibulella



Field Pennycress (Thlaspi arvense)







Sweet Cicely (Myrrhis odorata)



Tree Lupin (Lupinus arboreus)



Weevil Sp?









Woundwort Shieldbug (Eysarcoris venustissimus)





Sawfly Sp?



Eupeodes luniger



Case bearer Sp (Coleophora Sp)







Fox-tailed Flower Bee ♂︎ (Anthophora furcata)



Mirid Bug Sp

Leptoterna dolobrata nymph





Closterotomus trivialis ♂︎







Apple Ermine Moth caterpillars (Yponomeuta malinellus)



Hoverfly Sp (Eumerus Sp)?

Tags: SpinySolanum, MothSp, PennyCress, SweetCicely, TreeLupin, WeevilSp, WoundwortShieldBug, Eupeodesluniger, Fox-tailedFlowerBee, MiridBugSp, Closterotomustrivialis, AppleErmine, EumerusSp

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)

Tags: Landscape, Prinmrose, YellowFieldcap, Lycigalaterrestre, Galerinaclavata, Eutypellaleprosa, Scirrhiarimosa, BonfireMoss, MarshFern, WildCurrant, Psathyrellaspadiceogrisea, OchreSpreadingTooth, Orbillaeucalypti, Tapesiafusca, BogStitchwort, Uromycesdactylidis, Diallonectriaepisphaeria, Berlesiellanigerrima, BogMyrtle, AlderSpittlebug, CuckooFlower, WeevilSp

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

Tags: Landscape, BluebellRust, EarlyColletes, Peltigeramembrenacea, WeevilSp, SeaSandwort, SeaHolly