Marsham Heath



Superb autumn colour of Water Pepper

Water Pepper (Persicaria hydropiper)


Very short wings only just reaching the third tergite.
Coranus woodroffei


Western Gorse (Ulex gallii)?
Heath Milkwort (Polygala serpyllifolia)
Spangle Gall Wasp (Neuroterus quercusbacarum)
Dry
Wet
A crustose lichen with muhsroom like stalked apothecia.
Main Key in Dobson
Thallus crustose or absent
Thallus not crustode-plocodioid
Podetai,pseudopodetia or mushroom shaped - Key E
Mushroom shaped
Baeomyces - Thallus granular to squamulose. Apothecia pink to brown on stalks
Growing on a lens of sand.
Thallus finely granular - Baeomyces rufus
Dry

Wet
Using Dobson
Thallus squamalose Key c
Apothecia brown k- or if absent, squamules never with ornage on uhderside - 10
Primary thallus squamulose or ± absent. Podetai prominent or not - 11 (In this case there were no podetia
Thallus predominately oof primary squamules- 21
Thallus c- 22
it is quite difficult because the next couplet distinguishes between squamules yellowish and squamules white.
But these are white? and you need to take -23
to get to the species.
Cladonia foliacea







A large colony of Ivy Bees (Colletes hederae)

Cladonia cristata?


Cladonia portentosa?
Good blue reaction to UV
Surlingham Marsh


Sweet Chestnut (Castanea sativa) and Beech Fagus sylvatica) grove



Greater Burdock (Arctium lappa)
Muck larger seed heads than the Lesser Burdock (Arctium minus)
and when you split a lower leaf it is solid rather than hollow
Alder Curl (Taphrina alni)
Powdery mildew on Alkanet ( Pentaglottis sempervirens)
Erysiphe lycopsidis


Himalayan Balsam (Impatiens gladulifera)
Bittersweet flower (Solanum dulcamara)
Cranefly Sp
Tipula olivacea ♀︎
Dock Bug (Coreus marginatus) (Late instar nymph) 
Erysiphe Sp?


Powdery mildew on Field Maple (Acer campestris)
Sawadaea bicornis
Fly Sp
Fly Sp
Fly Sp
Powdery mildew on Garlic Mustard (Aliiaria petiolata)
Erysiphe cruciferararum)

Mitopus morio ?

Common Hempnettle (Galeipsis tetrahit)
with
powdery mildew
Erysiphe galeopsidis

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Flowers of the Hop (Humulus lupulus)
Syrphus Sp?
Ichneumon Sp
Ichneumon Sp
Xanthoria parietina growing among Orthotrichum anomalum

Field Digger Wasp (Mellinus arvensis)

Orange Balsam (Impatiens capensis)
Parent Bugs (Final instar) (Elas mucha)
Water Pepper (Persicaria hydropiper)
Reed (Phragmites communis)


Marsh Woundwort (Stachys palustris)

Twin Spot Boxer (Platycheirus rosarum)
The twin spots on tergite 3 were clearly visible before it turned around.
Image kindly supplied by IS

Pseudocercospora depazeoisea on Sambucus nigra
from
Plant Parasites of Europe

Skullcap (Scutellaria galericulata)
Garden SPider (Areneus diadematus)
Spindle (Euronymus europaeus)

Water Chick Weed (Stellaria aquatica)
Swamp Cypress (Taxodium distichum)?
Willow Emerald (Chalcolestes viridis)


Willow Sp having a second flush of flowering


Willow Sp
