Grass Bugs

From back in mid-summer: a pair of Leptopterna dolabrata (Hemiptera: Miridae). Male to the left, female to the right.

Photo taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2013-06-29.

Leaf-Spot Fungus

Spots on a dock-leaf (Rumex sp): probably the asexual form of the fungus Ramularia rubella.

Photo taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2013-04-28.

Coral Spot Fungus

The asexual fruiting bodies of a Nectria sp, probably a member of the Nectria cinnabarina group of species (see here for a recent account of this group).  They were growing through the bark of a recently felled broad-leaf tree.

The sexual fruiting bodies look like small raspberries:

The two forms do sometimes grow together:

Photos taken above Hutton Village, near Guisborough, North Yorkshire, UK, on 2013-09-12.

Soldier Flies

A female Sargus bipunctatus (Diptera: Stratiomyidae). 

The following photo shows the reddish front part of the abdomen which is only present in the females of this species:

And this photo of a different female (taken a week earlier) shows the two white spots (headlamps) between the eyes:

These white spots are present in both males and females.

Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2013-09-18 (the first two) and 2013-09-10 (the last one.

Yellow-Rimmed Fungus

What I think is dyer's mazegill fungus, Phaeolus schweinitzii.

The underside looks like this:

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