Category: David

Sometimes it is possible to see wildlife without leaving the comforts of home.

This Golden Y moth (or is it one of the other Y species?) had flown into the house overnight.

Picture taken 23rd September.

There are several species of inkcap mushrooms, all of which deliquesce. They do not drop their spores out of gills at the base of the cap. Instead, the cap disintegrates giving off the black mass of the spores.

This fly, whose species we haven’t been able to further identify, was totally absorbed in cleaning itself and ignored a very close approach.

This individual is here opening its wings to display their upper surface and its furry-appearing body.

It is the same individual pictured with its wings closed, showing off its comma, here.

Wood-clipping mulch often serves as a matrix for impressive mushrooms, as here this specimen of pluteus semibulbosus.

There were a lot of these comma butterflies on the bushes by the Staffs and Worcs canal.