Category: David

The steep angle of the cap of this toadstool gives it a funnel shape.

This series of pictures are of two fruiting bodies of the same fungus.

The top two pictures show the toadstools directly from above.

These next two show the same toadstools from the side, in the same order.

These two pictures show the so-called ring, the structure around the stem.

This final picture shows how the two were located in relation to each other.

These cross spiders are huge, and have grown very rapidly – presumably the female of the species.

The top two pictures are of the same individual, as seen first from above and then below.

This tiny mushroom was just visible in the recently mown grass is the barley field in the Smestow Brook Nature Reserve.

A bee getting nectar a couple of weeks ago.

These mushrooms were growing in lawn-length grass on the edge of a local playing field.