Wolves Wild

Bee busy collecting pollen, working its way systematically through the flowers of a forget-me-not.

The Prince, mushroom, fruiting bodies pushing their way through the vegetation in a spot where they emerge regularly each year, usually in August. The first four pictures in this set were taken within perhaps a day of the fruiting bodies emerging; the other four pictures a week later.

Tiny and colourful day-flying Pyrausta purpuralis moth resting on a leaf.

Small water snails from the Compton Park pool, out of the water. One is resting in the burs of a bur reed, the other on a reed leaf.

Bee busily gathering pollen from a cornflower, the insect seeming to have only a minimal connection between its thorax and abdomen.

Horse’s hoof, a polypore fungus which usually appears low down on the trunk of the trees it is infesting, this one shiny after recent rain. Also known as the tinder fungus, being a species which readily lights from sparks when dry. There were four pieces of this fungus for use as tinder being carried by Ötzi the Iceman whose body was recovered after 5,000 years frozen in an Alpine glacier.