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Another summer has gone and winter is just round the bend...
Sunday, 30 September 2012
Friday, 28 September 2012
Wednesday, 26 September 2012
Hawthorn Shield Bug
Wildlife Wednesday #35
The word bugs - when used technically - refers to a couple of groups of insects all of which have syringe-like mouthparts that they use to suck food out of things - mostly plants, but in some cases animals. The hawthorn shield bug usually sucks hawthorns...
The word bugs - when used technically - refers to a couple of groups of insects all of which have syringe-like mouthparts that they use to suck food out of things - mostly plants, but in some cases animals. The hawthorn shield bug usually sucks hawthorns...
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| Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale - Hawthorn Shield Bug |
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| Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale - Hawthorn Shield Bug |
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| Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale - Hawthorn Shield Bug |
Tuesday, 25 September 2012
Bernice Larches
Tree-fetish Tuesday #28
The beautiful victorian plantings around Bernice on the shore of Loch Eck on a cold, bright winter's day.
The beautiful victorian plantings around Bernice on the shore of Loch Eck on a cold, bright winter's day.
Monday, 24 September 2012
Gibbous Bracket
Monday Mushroom #33
The gibbous bracket - a largish, white bracket fungus of rotting long-dead timber. These photos were taken in winter, and there is a layer of ice on top of each bracket.
Like many long-lived white fungi, the gibbous bracket is often colonised by algae - responsible for the green flush on these fruiting bodies.
The gibbous bracket - a largish, white bracket fungus of rotting long-dead timber. These photos were taken in winter, and there is a layer of ice on top of each bracket.
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| Trametes gibbosa - Gibbous Bracket |
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| Trametes gibbosa - Gibbous Bracket |
Friday, 21 September 2012
Rough-Hewn Amberley
Fencepost of the Week #42
A mossy timber fence from a horse field in Amberley - a picturesque village that seems determined to single handedly keep the thatching trade alive and in Sussex.
I might have taken more pictures of the beautiful country cottages or the sprawling castle and ancient church, but I was too foucused on looking for nice fenceposts.
A mossy timber fence from a horse field in Amberley - a picturesque village that seems determined to single handedly keep the thatching trade alive and in Sussex.
I might have taken more pictures of the beautiful country cottages or the sprawling castle and ancient church, but I was too foucused on looking for nice fenceposts.
Wednesday, 19 September 2012
Great Pond Snails
Wildlife Wednesday #34
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| Lymnaea stagnalis - Great Pond Snails |
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| Lymnaea stagnalis - Great Pond Snails |
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| Lymnaea stagnalis - Great Pond Snails |
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