Entries from November 1, 2013 - November 30, 2013

Sunday
Nov102013

Hound's Tongue

From back in early summer: flowers of hound's tongue, Cynoglossum officinale.

The seed-pods look like this:

And the whole plant like this:

Photos taken in the field below Chazey Wood, near Caversham, UK, on 2013-06-16.

Saturday
Nov092013

Slime Mould

From the summer of 2012: a slime mould Lycogala epidendrum growing on a damp rotting log.  One of the aethalia on the right-hand side is exuding orange liquid.

Photo taken in  Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2012-06-17.

Friday
Nov082013

Mushrooms

Sulphur tuft mushrooms, Hypholoma fasciculare, growing on buried decaying wood.

Photo taken in the Wilderness, Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2012-11-03.

Thursday
Nov072013

Moths

Again from late summer of 2012: moth Syricoris lacunana = Celypha lacunana (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae).

The following photo, from earlier in that summer, shows the star pattern on the eyes:

Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2012-08-25 and 2012-06-10, respectively.

Wednesday
Nov062013

Nettle Galls

From the sumer of 2012: plant galls on the underside of the leaf of a nettle (Urtica dioca), probably caused by larvae of the fly Dasineura urticae (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae).  The upperside of the leaf looks like this:

Photos taken in the field below Chazey Wood, near Caversham, UK, on 2012-08-12.