Orange-tailed Mining Bee ♂︎ (Andrena haemorrha)





Buffish Mining Bee ♂︎(Andrena nigroeana)

Tags: Orange-tailedMiningBee, BuffishMiningBee

Beech Scale

Scale Insect - Cryptococcus fagisuga



Beech Wart (Hypoxylon fragiforme)







Common Gorse (Ulex europaeus)



Physcia adscendens with Black Apothecia

A lichenicolous fungi also present.



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 Carol

















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

Tags: BeechScale, BeechWart, EuropeanGorse, Physciaadscendens, JuniperHaircap, BMSForaySpecimens, PhytophteraSp, FalseTruffle