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Lurid boletes on a front lawn

Lurid boletes on a front lawn

Lurid boletes have been the large mushroom as summer begins to give way to autumn this year. This pair were growing together on a front lawn.

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Minute pirate bug (flower bug)

Minute pirate bug

Minute pirate bug (genus Anthocoris) -species in this grouping sometimes called flower bugs instead. This one was resting on a hazel leaf.

Minute pirate bug

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White Cheese Polypore Tyromyces chioneus

White Cheese Polypore Tyromyces chioneus

Views of a single fruiting body of a white cheese polypore (Tyromyces chioneus) growing on a fallen branch by the side of the Railway Walk near Compton.

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Dark-winged Fungus Gnat Family Sciaridae

Dark-winged fungus gnat

Dark-winged Fungus gnat, one of the species in the family Sciaridae. It was resting on the very un-fungoid wall of a house.

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The adventurous one: cygnet, West Park

The adventurous one: cygnet, West Park

The most adventurous of this year’s three cygnets at West Park, which has been spending most of its time on its own for longer than the other pair.

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Mass of teazle seed-heads

Mass of teazle seed-heads

Seed heads in a mass in the wetland area by the pool at Compton Park, a patch which as developed from one or two plants when the pool was created in 2013.

Mass of teazle seed-heads

An earlier post has views of the same patch when the plants were flowering.