Monday
Feb282011
Fritillary
Mon 2011-02-28 
From last spring: a fritillary, Fritillaria melleagris.
Photo taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading University grounds, Reading, UK, on 2010-04-17.
Entries from February 1, 2011 - February 28, 2011
Mon 2011-02-28 Sunday
Feb272011
Tachinid Fly
Sun 2011-02-27 
A spiny fly from last year's summer holday up north: a female of genus Lydella (Diptera: Tachinidae), either Lydella stabulans or Lydella grisescens. Identification by Chris Raper and Theo Zeegers here.
Photos taken behind Highcliff, near Guisborough, North Yorkshire, UK, on 2010-08-10.
Saturday
Feb262011
Why Adobe Reader is so Slow
Sat 2011-02-26 And there was I thinking that Adobe Reader was just for PDFs. I'm glad I switched to Foxit.
Saturday
Feb262011
Mushroom
Sat 2011-02-26 
From last autumn: a mushroom, probably an Amanita sp, possibly Amanita rubescens.
Photo taken in the Wilderness, Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2010-09-19.
Friday
Feb252011
Wrinkled Crust Fungus
Fri 2011-02-25 
Wrinkled crust fungus, Phlebia radiata, a rather pale and presumably older growth than those shown here and here.
[Note added 2011-12-02: I now think this is probably Radulomyces molaris.]
Photo taken in the Wilderness, Whiteknights Park, Reading University grounds, Reading, UK, on 2011-02-18.
