Marsham Heath

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Superb autumn colour of Water Pepper

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Water Pepper (Persicaria hydropiper)

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Very short wings only just reaching the third tergite.

Coranus woodroffei

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Western Gorse (Ulex gallii)?

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Heath Milkwort (Polygala serpyllifolia)

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Spangle Gall Wasp (Neuroterus quercusbacarum)

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Dry

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Wet

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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

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Dry

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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

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A large colony of Ivy Bees (Colletes hederae)

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Cladonia cristata?

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Cladonia portentosa?

Good blue reaction to UV

Comments

Surlingham Marsh

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

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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

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Alder Curl (Taphrina alni)

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Powdery mildew on Alkanet ( Pentaglottis sempervirens)

Erysiphe lycopsidis
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Himalayan Balsam (Impatiens gladulifera)

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Bittersweet flower (Solanum dulcamara)

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Cranefly Sp

Tipula olivacea ♀︎

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Dock Bug (Coreus marginatus) (Late instar nymph)

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Erysiphe Sp?

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Powdery mildew on Field Maple (Acer campestris)

Sawadaea bicornis

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Fly Sp

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Fly Sp

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Fly Sp

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Powdery mildew on Garlic Mustard (Aliiaria petiolata)

Erysiphe cruciferararum)

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Mitopus morio ?

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Common Hempnettle (Galeipsis tetrahit)

with

powdery mildew

Erysiphe galeopsidis

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♀︎

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♂︎

Flowers of the Hop (Humulus lupulus)

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Syrphus Sp?

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Ichneumon Sp

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Ichneumon Sp

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Xanthoria parietina growing among Orthotrichum anomalum

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Field Digger Wasp (Mellinus arvensis)

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Orange Balsam (Impatiens capensis)

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Parent Bugs (Final instar) (Elas mucha)

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Water Pepper (Persicaria hydropiper)

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Reed (Phragmites communis)

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Marsh Woundwort (Stachys palustris)

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Twin Spot Boxer (Platycheirus rosarum)

The twin spots on tergite 3 were clearly visible before it turned around.

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Image kindly supplied by IS

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Pseudocercospora depazeoisea on Sambucus nigra

from

Plant Parasites of Europe

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Skullcap (Scutellaria galericulata)

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Garden SPider (Areneus diadematus)

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Spindle (Euronymus europaeus)

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Water Chick Weed (Stellaria aquatica)

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Swamp Cypress (Taxodium distichum)?

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Willow Emerald (Chalcolestes viridis)

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Willow Sp having a second flush of flowering

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Willow Sp

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