I'm currently in the Cairngorms where Ramalina fraxinae is common, i think that this is the Lichenicolous fungi : Tremella ramalinae on one of its strap like thalli ??
Graham Featherstone
@mothman60.bsky.social
Keen naturalist,Lepidoptera,Botany,Fungi and Lichens !
Delighted to find my first ever Snakefly here in the Cairngorms ( Atlantoraphidia maculicollis) we think !🙂
I'm on holiday in the Cairngorms, does anyone know which species of wasp would make these 🤔
Out and about in local woodland today on the hunt for microfungi .Over the moon to find another Pseudoscorpion but what on earth these two larvae are goodness only knows !😆
I'm needing assistance on this lichen, found on a stone at the edge of a fresh water lake !VC62 !Any help much appreciated !🙂
Yet again i have stumbled upon a lovely little critter 😃.Any help of an ID would be great !TIA.
This little chap was hiding in a fungi sample that i brought home.What on Earth is it? Anyone able to help 🤔
Temperature dropped to -7.2 last night and the Esk has a thin coat of ice !Lealholm, VC62 !
Chaeonothecia ferruginea on an old Oak here in North Yorkshire !🙂
A quick wander down by the river produced some nice fungi today !Great start to the year !Scarlet elf cup, Orange peel fungi and Illosporopsis christiansenii !🤗
Just call me Golden balls !! Amazing slime mould found under a wet log here in VC62 !
In winter i spend a lot of time in the woods turning over pieces of wood/branches, hoping to find Ascos.On christmas eve i found this little beauty.Obsi says its an Epo !Any info would be greatly accepted 😃
And finally just for Christmas , mother nature had made a Peltigera wreath for us!🤗
There were lots of stunning Cladonia species of course !
Yesterday 5 of us intrepid naturalists braved the fog and visited a very remote Larch stand on the edge of the NYMNP to look at the rare lichens there !We weren't disappointed !😃
With the fungi season slowly dwindling my attention turns towards lichens.Today i was rewarded with a new one:Coniocarpon cinnabarinum !!On Hazel by a stream side in VC62.Spores averaged 9.6 x 25.6 um !Yes i have purchased a microscope ! No VC62 records 🤔 .
Out on the moors today looking at Fungi.More examples of Lichenomphalia umbellifera found and possibly Laetisaria lichenicola on Physcia 🤔 .@jennyseawright.
How fitting that my Deaths head Hawk moth has emerged on Halloween.🙂
I found this wonderful Cladonia on the moor edge here in VC62.Cladonia rangiformis or C rangiferina perhaps 🤔
My first ever Pseudoscorpion !OMG what a little beauty, possibly Neobisium carcinoides.Arncliffe woods, VC62 .
Out on the moors today looking at lichens.Pleased to find Lichenomphalia umbellifera ! @aspenecology.com
Called in to see a friend today at Ruswarp, near Whitby , VC62.As we walked round her lovely garden we spotted, Western conifer seed bug,Box bug and Hawthorn shieldbug.Also 2 fresh Common blues and 4 Small copper butterflies !
This Fistulina hepatica ( Beefsteak fungus) was a tad " overdone" for my liking !😆
Today i noticed a thallus of Hypogymnia with yellow patches.I presumed a fungal attack, however a friend has suggested Usnic acid leachate 🤔🤔
