David

On the same lawn as a mushroom spotted a few weeks earlier, and possibly another fruiting body sent up by the same underground network, some kind of boletes, already well nibbled.

A scarlet tiger moth at rest – no scarlet showing on its folded wings – clinging on to a leaf.

Lone mushroom growing on a lawn during the hot spell last month. Possibly some species of milkcap.

From the garden of the Bishops Castle Hotel, Bishops Castle, like the pictures in the previous post. Scabious flowers with a visiting bumblebee. A hoverfly also intruded in one of the shots in the sequence.

A particularly vivid red rose which was one of the flowers in the (beer) garden of the Bishops Castle Hotel, built on the site of the former castle in the eponymous Shropshire town.

A tiny beetle feeding on one  of the ox-eye daisy flowers of St John’s churchyard, Bishops Castle. Like many churchyards, some areas of grass are left unmown until later in the summer to encourage the growth of wildflowers.