Slime Mould Activity

 

I've been seeing quite a lot of slime mould activity this august. The video is approximately 400 times actual speed.

 

 


 

 

Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa














Metatrichia floriformis

Warm Evening Post

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Rutstroemia firma

 

Rutstroemia firma is a brown cup fungus that grows on dead oak wood. It often has a long, dark stem, but can also come up in crowded rosettes.

Danger Berries

 Fencepost of the Week #211

Dangerously delicious bilberries, maybe!

Fresh Glue Fungus

 

I can find glue fungus - Hymenochaete corrugata - at any time of the year as blackish, cracking lumps of matter sticking hazel tree branches together.

But at the end of July, I came across this: freshly grown glue fungus. Off-white, with a felty texture. 

Alder Sawfly

 

 

 

This is an alder sawfly - Eriocampa ovata - larva.

 

The powdery white stuff is camouflage: they look very like bird droppings from a distance.

 

Crown of Capsules

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