Butterfly

From last spring: a male orange-tip butterfly, Anthocharis cardamines (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) on lady's smock (Cardamine pratensis). 

The green and black pattern on the underside of the wings is apparently rather effective camouflage when the butterfly is at rest, feeding on a flower head.  The orange wing-tip is hidden away between the folded wings, only to be revealed in flight, when the butterfly is less easy to catch.

Photo taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2012-04-30.

Another Longhorn Moth

From early last summer, a male Nemophora degeerella (Lepidoptera: Adelidae) longhorn moth.

Photo taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2012-06-10.

Longhorn Moth

From last spring: a male Adela reaumurella (Lepidoptera: Adelidae) longhorn moth on a cowslip flower (Primula veris).

Photo taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2012-04-29.

Coltsfoot

Coltsfoot, Tussilago farfara, one of the few flowers already out in this cool spring.

Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2013-03-29.

Black Hand Fungus

Small spiny fruiting bodies of a Diatrypaceae fungus, possibly a Eutypella sp, growing on a birch twig (Betula sp).  The spines were only 1 - 2mm long:

Unfortunately I was unable to get any spores.

First photo taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2013-03-29.