David

Yellow spindle coral fungus grows as bunches of yellow fingers, less than a centimetre high.

Despite its strong colour, it is sometimes hard to spot, even in short grass.

Spider’s web using the top of an umbellifer as the scaffolding. The tiny drops of water from the early morning dew help to make the strands of the web stand out.

Glistening inkcaps are small mushrooms which grow in troops on underground rotting wood, such as the roots of former trees.

The centres of the caps of freshly emerged ones have a rich tan colour, fading towards grey at the rim of the cap. As the mushrooms age, the cap centres shift colour progressively to approach the tone of the rim.

A lasting patch may have clumps of mushrooms of different ages.

These were growing in a spot by a footpath where there are fresh eruptions of glsitening inkcaps several times a year.

Earthworm hurrying along a canal towpath.

The orangish section, roughly one third of the body length behind the head, is the clitellum. It holds the worm’s eggs. This worm may have been in such a hurry to find a good spot for its eggs.

A bee gathering pollen from ivy flowers has got a heavy dusting of the pollen on its legs and body.

Towards the end of October, a belated fungi flush finally got underway. There were some common and familiar species, and other species which I don’t remember having seen before.

This is a species I failed to identify. As so often with this year’s pictures, it was taken on a morning after overnight rain.