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.
Minute pirate bug (flower bug)
Minute pirate bug (genus Anthocoris) -species in this grouping sometimes called flower bugs instead. This one was resting on a hazel leaf.
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.
Dark-winged Fungus Gnat Family Sciaridae
Dark-winged Fungus gnat, one of the species in the family Sciaridae. It was resting on the very un-fungoid wall of a house.
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.
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.
An earlier post has views of the same patch when the plants were flowering.