Wed 2010-12-22 
Puffball fungus Lycoperdon pyriforme (= Morganella pyriformis) growing on a decaying log embedded in the leaf litter. This was growing in the same place that I came across the same species back in February.
Photo taken in the Wilderness, Whiteknights Park, Reading University grounds, Reading, UK, on 2010-12-12.
Tue 2010-12-21 
A dagger fly, an Empis sp, probably Empis livida (Diptera: Empididae).
Photo taken in Bousdale, near Guisborough, North Yorkshire, UK, on 2010-08-08.
Mon 2010-12-20 
From back in mid-summer: a male gall flies, probably Xyphosia miliaria (Diptera: Tephritidae) on thistle (Cirsium sp).
Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading University grounds, Reading, UK, on 2010-06-27.
Sun 2010-12-19 
From the autumn of 2006: a bolete fungus, probably the ruby bolete, Boletus rubellus. (= Boletus versicolor = Xerocomus rubellus).
Photo taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading University grounds, Reading, UK, on 2006-09-23.
Sat 2010-12-18 
A hoverfly from our summer holiday in 2009: a female Episyrphus balteatus (Diptera: Syrphidae).
Photos taken in my father's garden in Guisborough, North Yorkshire, UK, on 2009-08-05.
