Wolves Wild

Lone mushroom growing on a lawn during the hot spell last month. Possibly some species of milkcap.

From the garden of the Bishops Castle Hotel, Bishops Castle, like the pictures in the previous post. Scabious flowers with a visiting bumblebee. A hoverfly also intruded in one of the shots in the sequence.

A particularly vivid red rose which was one of the flowers in the (beer) garden of the Bishops Castle Hotel, built on the site of the former castle in the eponymous Shropshire town.

A tiny beetle feeding on one  of the ox-eye daisy flowers of St John’s churchyard, Bishops Castle. Like many churchyards, some areas of grass are left unmown until later in the summer to encourage the growth of wildflowers.

A cucumber spider (probably a female) on a zinnia flower. A common garden spider, but often missed, because its green body is inconspicuous against the green of the vegetation forming its normal habitat. The contrast with the red here, on the contrary, made it sand out clearly.

Spotted, of all places, from the garden seating of the Pharmacy Poetry bookshop’s café in Bishops Castle.  The zinnia were the cut flowers on the table.

The graveyard at St John’s church, Bishops Castle. Some of these tombstones have been standing for around two centuries, in an atmosphere low in industrial pollution, and likely lots of rainfall over the years. Ideal conditions for the growth of a variety of different lichens.