Category: David

Vividly red apples growing in the front garden of an isolated house in the valley of the Warwickshire Avon. The house was called Apple Tree Cottage.

Seeds ripening on a meadowsweet plant overhanging a canal, with strands of spider’s web everywhere.

Once again not to be confused with the daddy long-legs insect (cranefly), and, despite the eight legs, not actually a spider either. A harvestman is an Opilone, a type of arachnid and thus related to the spiders. Often found in late summer and autumn, sometimes indoors.

Not to be confused with a daddy long-legs, which is an insect (six legs, wings which are used to fly around in a seemingly random manner), but a spider often found indoors. Also known as a cellar spider or formally as Pholcus phalangioides.

Haws in various stages of ripening on a hawthorn covered in vigorous growths of lichen, an attractive mix of colours and textures.

Common darter coming in to land on bullrush on the Compton Park pond. The plant had been uprooted by vandals and was floating in the water.