Yet again i have stumbled upon a lovely little critter 😃.Any help of an ID would be great !TIA.
27.02.2026 08:46 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Yet again i have stumbled upon a lovely little critter 😃.Any help of an ID would be great !TIA.
27.02.2026 08:46 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
This little chap was hiding in a fungi sample that i brought home.What on Earth is it? Anyone able to help 🤔
07.02.2026 15:05 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 1
Temperature dropped to -7.2 last night and the Esk has a thin coat of ice !Lealholm, VC62 !
05.01.2026 15:32 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Chaeonothecia ferruginea on an old Oak here in North Yorkshire !🙂
01.01.2026 15:10 — 👍 21 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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 !🤗
01.01.2026 15:08 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Just call me Golden balls !! Amazing slime mould found under a wet log here in VC62 !
31.12.2025 14:06 — 👍 49 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0
Yep, more Slime moulds.Sorry can't name them !😌
28.12.2025 23:41 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Great Slime mould weather !
28.12.2025 23:38 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Ooh thanks !It was under a log so would be hanging down.
27.12.2025 15:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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 😃
27.12.2025 10:00 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
And finally just for Christmas , mother nature had made a Peltigera wreath for us!🤗
22.12.2025 20:38 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Cladonia piccys !!🙄
22.12.2025 20:34 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0There were lots of stunning Cladonia species of course !
22.12.2025 20:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Usnea daspoga ?
Usnea wasmuthii ?
More Usnea daspoga.
Peltigera membrenacea 🤔
More lichens from yesterday .NYMNP.
22.12.2025 20:32 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Melanohalea exasperatula?
Tuckermanopsis chlorophylla ?
Bryoria sp.Very wet !
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 !😃
22.12.2025 20:28 — 👍 20 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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 🤔 .
30.11.2025 20:18 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Out on the moors today looking at Fungi.More examples of Lichenomphalia umbellifera found and possibly Laetisaria lichenicola on Physcia 🤔 .@jennyseawright.
09.11.2025 08:17 — 👍 29 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
How fitting that my Deaths head Hawk moth has emerged on Halloween.🙂
31.10.2025 20:30 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
I found this wonderful Cladonia on the moor edge here in VC62.Cladonia rangiformis or C rangiferina perhaps 🤔
14.10.2025 17:53 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
My first ever Pseudoscorpion !OMG what a little beauty, possibly Neobisium carcinoides.Arncliffe woods, VC62 .
02.10.2025 17:53 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Out on the moors today looking at lichens.Pleased to find Lichenomphalia umbellifera ! @aspenecology.com
28.09.2025 18:08 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Gotta luv a Weevil.Curculio glandium 😃
28.09.2025 18:05 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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 !
27.09.2025 06:05 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Aren't Cladonias just amazing !!🙂
06.09.2025 07:36 — 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
This Fistulina hepatica ( Beefsteak fungus) was a tad " overdone" for my liking !😆
06.09.2025 07:34 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today i noticed a thallus of Hypogymnia with yellow patches.I presumed a fungal attack, however a friend has suggested Usnic acid leachate 🤔🤔
04.09.2025 21:05 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Gotta love a Pale tussock catty !🙂
04.09.2025 20:59 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
After 12mm of rain over the last 2 days, some of the common lichens on the moors look much fresher !Platismatia glauca and Parmelia omphalodes here on a large wooden post !
29.08.2025 08:56 — 👍 31 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Only 11 sp. in the garden last night but one of them was Scarce bordered straw !😃I'm roughly 10miles from the sea and very few records near me !
28.08.2025 07:22 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
2 Deaths head hawkmoth cattys found in Sleights today, VC62 !Absolute beasts !! @migrantmothuk.bsky.social
19.08.2025 19:43 — 👍 98 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 0