Wolves Wild

The same red admiral butterfly featured in the previous post, now beginning to open its wings.

A red admiral butterfly feeding with its wings folded showing the less decorated underside.

Its long tongue allows it to hold its head high as it feeds on one of the bunch of flowers it is standing on.

A fly agaric mushroom is recogisable only bythe distinctive colours of its cap as it peeps through fallen leaves.

Leaves from one of the trees in the post earlier today here.

As it fed on the ivy flowers, this comma butterfly kept flexing its wings. Its hairy body became very obvious when the wings were near the horizontal.

Trees by the Pitch and Putt at Bantock Park as their leaves changed colour for the autumn.

Blackberries, ripe and ripening, on a sunny morning earlier this month.

Horse’s hoof fungus ls also known as the tinder fungus, because it is the source of amadou, a substance which can be set aflame by a single spark.

Ötzi the Iceman, the prehistoric man found preserved in an Alpine glacier, had some amadou in a pouch.

Why are these mushrooms called tawny funnelcaps? They’re brown. They have a depression in the middle of their caps, making the caps look a bit like a funnel.

They are fairly common mushrooms of late summer and autumn, associated with trees – usually conifers.

Mushrooms so small that there caps were barely over the well-mown lawn outside the Chestnut Tree pub in Finchfield.