Thu 2011-01-13 
From our summer holiday last year: a green sawfly, probably of the Rhogogaster viridis group (Hymenoptera: Tenthrediinidae). The black markings on the thorax are less heavy than in the R. viridis that I have seen before (see here and here).
Photos taken in Bousdale, near Guisborough, North Yorkshire, UK, on 2010-08-08.
Wed 2011-01-12 
From last spring: a polypore mushroom, probably a winter polypore (Polyporus brumalis), on a decaying silver birch log.
Photos taken in the Wilderness, Whiteknights Park, Reading University grounds, Reading, UK, on 2010-03-13.
Tue 2011-01-11 
From back last spring: a Tenthredinid sawfly, probably a female Tenthredo maculata (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae).
I say it is probably a female because in male T. maculata the yellow abdominal band is much larger (see near the foot of this page at Alain Ramel's Les Insectes site).
Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading University grounds, Reading, UK, on 2010-05-23.
Mon 2011-01-10 
From last summer: a rhopalid bug, probably Rhopalus subrufus (Hemiptera: Rhopalidae).
Photo taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading University grounds, Reading, UK, on 2010-08-15.
Sun 2011-01-09 
A black fungus, probably Exidia glandulosa, on a twig of a fallen oak tree. Exidia nigricans (= Exidia plana) is similar but, according to Wikipedia, tends to be more coalesced into a single amorphous mass.
Photo taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading University grounds, Reading, UK, on 2011-01-05.
