Mushrooms

Sulphur tuft mushrooms, Hypholoma fasciculare, growing on buried decaying wood.

Photo taken in the Wilderness, Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2012-11-03.

Moths

Again from late summer of 2012: moth Syricoris lacunana = Celypha lacunana (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae).

The following photo, from earlier in that summer, shows the star pattern on the eyes:

Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2012-08-25 and 2012-06-10, respectively.

Nettle Galls

From the sumer of 2012: plant galls on the underside of the leaf of a nettle (Urtica dioca), probably caused by larvae of the fly Dasineura urticae (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae).  The upperside of the leaf looks like this:

Photos taken in the field below Chazey Wood, near Caversham, UK, on 2012-08-12.

Grass Bugs

From back in mid-summer: a pair of Leptopterna dolabrata (Hemiptera: Miridae). Male to the left, female to the right.

Photo taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2013-06-29.

Leaf-Spot Fungus

Spots on a dock-leaf (Rumex sp): probably the asexual form of the fungus Ramularia rubella.

Photo taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2013-04-28.