Lichen

Lipstick lichen, Cladonia macilenta, growing on an old fallen tree trunk.
Photo taken in the Wilderness, Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2014-09-20.
Lipstick lichen, Cladonia macilenta, growing on an old fallen tree trunk.
Photo taken in the Wilderness, Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2014-09-20.
Beefsteak fungus, Fistulina hepatica, growing at the base of an oak tree.
Photo taken in the Wilderness, Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2014-09-21.
From back in mid-summer: a pair of Rutpela maculata (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) mating.
Photo taken in the Wilderness, Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2014-07-20.
A longhorn beetle from early summer: Agapanthia villosoviridescens (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).
Photo taken in the field below Chazey Wood, near Caversham, UK, on 2014-06-29.
Also from early summer: a pair of harlequin ladybirds, Harmonia axyridis (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) mating.
Photo taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2014-06-07.