Margarite flower

Margarite flower

Attractive cultivated daisy, with the flower and as yet unopened buds earlier this month.

Hoverfly feeding on an ivy flower

Hoverfly feeding on an ivy flower

Ivy comes into flower in October, one of the latest plants to do so.

The flowers don’t look spectacular to the human eye, but they attract lots of feeding insects, especially when the sun comes out.

This hoverfly was just one of many insects feeding on ivy growing by the canal towpath near Compton.

Blackening waxcap on a lawn

Blackening waxcap on a lawn

Blackening waxcap which had well and truly blackened. I noticed it on the front lawn of a house near the Castlecroft shops.