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Bog Beacon (mitrula paludosa)

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Common Haircap (Polytrichum commune) Male plant.

Oxford Plants 400

A large moss that can reach heights of 70cm.

It cannot survive using water that passes over its leaf surface alone.

It has a very simple system of water conducting cells, unlike other mosses.

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Ctenophora pectinicornis ♀︎

The males have feathered antenna and a more striking colour pattern.

Thanks to James for id via twitter

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Dog's Vomit (Filago septica)

Tony commented

Dog's Vomit slime mould - I don't think so - more like Mucilago crustacea going over from colour and bobbly bits at bottom.

SO

Mucilago crustacea

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Dor Beetle (Geotropes stercoratus)

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Fungus Sp?

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Fungus Sp?

Tony commented

This is a Lentaria sp.

Very rarely recorded.

Unfortunately Yvonne has not been able to find any spores,
the width of which would separate species.

So

Lentaria Sp?

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Hard Fern unfurling (Blechnum spicant)

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Fungus Sp?

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Acrospermum compressum on a dead nettle stem (Urtica doiica)

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Slightly dried Common Jelly Spot (Dacrymyces stillatus)

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Willow Barkspot (Diatrype bullata)

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Melanospora lagenaria on Birch Mazegill (Lenzites betulina)

Tony L commented

This bracket was not on the fungus list for the day and I don't think we found it.
I think your photo might be of Melanospora lagenaria on Birch Polypore.

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Diaportha crustosa

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A favourite - particularly the loopy stage of the unfurling stamens.

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Sanicle rust on a leaf stem

Vicky first found it on a petiole and according to the Dutch Rust book ‘Roesten’,
only Stage I (aecia) occurs on the petiole. Vicky subsequently found it on the
underside of a living leaf. I took a piece (on underside of leaf) home
but I couldn’t extract any material to confirm the stage.

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Puccinia saniculae

It would be good to see the mature form of this.

Looking at online photos it's similar in appearance to Nettle rust (Puccinia urtica)

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Mature Sanicle Leaf

Sanicle (Sanicula europea)

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Slime Mould Sp

Arcyria denudata

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A fungus parasatising a Slime Mold

Trichia Sp

Tony L commented

The modern name for the parasitic fungus on Trichia favoginea is Polycephalomyces tomentosus.

Ellis & Ellis point towards Blistrum ovalisporum or Blistrum tometosum as Tony has commented.

There's a lovely picture from Wikipedia here showing Blistrum ovalisporum.

Blistrum tomentosum AKA Polycephalomyces tomentosus - Ron Wolf on Flicker

An image similar to ours from Sweden

Tony L pointed out there are four kingdoms involved in this conundrum

FOUR out of FIVE KINGDOMS?

A PROTISTA - Slime Mould
feeding on MONERA (Bacteria)
living on dead wood PLANTAE
parasitised by a fungus FUNGI
But the fifth kingdom ANIMALIA was present
to appreciate it all.

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Oak Leaf-roller Weevil ( Attelabus nitens)

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LLanymynech Rocks - North Wales

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Cuckoo Flower (Cardamine pratensis)

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Plus friend

Micropterix calthella

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Wild Strawberry (Fragaria vesca)

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Herb Robert (Geranium robertianum)

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Mating 14 Spot Ladybird (Propylea quattuordecimpunctata)

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Black Bryony (Dioscorea communis)

Heart shaped leaves, no tendrils.

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Salad Burnet (Sanguisorbia minor)

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Crosswort (Cruciata laevipes)

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Dog's Mercury (Mercurialis perennis)

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Dogwood (Cornus sanguinea)

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Yellow Dung Fly (Scathophaga stercoraria)

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Hawthron (Crataegus monogyna)

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Common Milkwort (Polygala vulgaris)

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Flat Neckera (Neckera complanata)

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Common Rock Rose (Helianthemum nummularium)

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Sanicle (Sanicula europea)

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Early Purple Orchid (Orchis mascula)

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Fissidens Sp?

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Green Shield Bug (Palomena prasina)

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Hairy Shield Bug (Dolycoris baccarum)

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Hazel Rust of some kind?

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Bird's - foot Trefoil (Lotus corniculatus)

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Medic Sp?

Black Medic (Medicago lupulina)

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Striped Woodlouse (Philiscia muscorum)

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Cowslip (Primula veris)

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Spider Sp

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Spider Sp

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Spider Sp?

Nursery Web Spider (Pisaura mirabilis)?

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Weevil Sp?

This turned out to be quite complicated.

There are a fair number of small green weevil species and they fall into two familes apparently.

Phyllobius & Polydrusus Weevils.

They both feed on the foliage of various plants. In this casing mating on Dogwood.

The families can be separated by the insertion point of the antennae. In all Phyllobius species the insertion point is visible from above. In Polydrusus species this is not the case.

Another caveat is that not all Polydrusus species are green.

An introduction to this identification conundrum can be found on

Phyllobius Weevils at Eakring Birds

In this case the antennae insertion points appear to visible form above so a Phyllobius Sp

Needless to say there is another family in the melting pot - Pachyrhinus, which looks similar to both Phyllobius & Polydrusus species.


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White Bedstraw (Gallium album)

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Yellow Meadow Ant (Lasius flavus)


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