Shieldbugs

From the spring of 2012: a pair of Eurydema oleracea (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) mating.

Photo taken in the field below Chazey Wood, near Caversham, UK, on 2012-05-22.

Yellow Fungus

From last autumn: a Calocera sp, probably Calocera pallidospathulata, growing on decaying wood.

Photo taken at the top of Bousdale, near Guisborough, North Yorkshire, UK, 2013-09-14.

Lichens

Lichens Lecanora chlarotera (pale disks) and Lecidella elaeochroma (black spots on light green blackground) growing on the trunk of a young tree. The colonies of the latter species tend to have black lines around them:

Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2014-01-11.

Pseudoscorpions

From the spring of 2012: a pseudoscorpion hanging on to the leg of a Lonchaeid fly (Diptera: Lonchaeidae).  Pseudoscorpions are arachnids not insects, Some species are phoretic, that is to say they hitch lifts on flying insects. The above fly appeared unable or unwilling to fly off with the pseudoscorpion attached and the latter eventually let go.

I took the pseudoscorpion home with me to get a closer look at it but was unable to identify it any further:

Here is another that I found last November on some fungus:

First photo and first specimen taken in the Wilderness, Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2012-05-24.

Second specimen taken in the Wilderness on 2013-11-02.

Crust Fungus

An unidentified white crust fungus growing on a small dead oak tree (Quercus sp).  It had a texture  rather like cream cheese.

I took this specimen:

This yielded the following spores (magnification x600, field width 86um):

These are about 5.5 x 5um.

The basidia have 3 sterigmata (x600, width 86um):

And the hyphae have clamp connections(x600,  width 86um):

First photo and specimen taken in the Wilderness, Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2014-01-11.