Author: David

Several species of spiders build their webs over crevices, with a tunnel in the middle where they lurk, ready to leap out for prey. The spider itself can just about be seen at the bottom of the tunnel here.

Privet flowers are normally more noticeable by their distinctive odour than their appearance, but this close-up shows their exotic appearance. The flowers develop from buds like these.

Cauliflower fungi come from one of several related species of parasitic fungi which look a little bit like the head of a cauliflower.

This one was growing on a tree stump near the lake in West Park.

I noticed this carved mouse on the signpost for a footpath as I was walking to get to the Pendeford Mill Reserve for its Open Day a while back.

Despite the wet summer, the seeds of this angelica are drying out and ripening. The picture was taken right at the start of the month.

A large cross spider, and so almost certainly a female, was darting about her web as she repaired damage to the threads.

A picture and brief excerpt from
my article in the new edition of Wolverhampton Magazine
(I believe copies of last month’s issue are also still available).

A larger version of the picture will be featured here in a post in a couple of weeks. 

These raspberries were beginning to ripen at the start of the month.

Two moths caught asleep in the daytime. This one was in short grass on a seaside hill.

This one, with cryptic camouflage, was in a privet hedge.

This slemder beetle seems to prefer the flowers of umbellifers, or perhaps that is where I spot them because of the colour contrast.

The light has emphasised the darker colour of the facial feathers of these jackdaws.

Mayflies can be seen all summer, despite the name. This one was resting on a railing by the river Exe.