Chris Grimbly

Puffection

Blusher then, it should bruise pink where damaged

Lovely! I think that may be a blusher, the flecks on the top aren’t white enough for pantherina. Panthers have a gutter around the top of the volva.
Does the annulus ( ring) have striations ?

Morning!

Fuligo septica, Bernwood. Not an uncommon find but there was something sumptuous about this one. #fungifriends #slimemouldsunday #myxos #bernwood

Wasn’t me!

Sorry no! I think a blusher, this one a panther

Yes!

Lots of panther caps, blushers and some franchetii in the same area of Bernwood #fungifriends #shrooms #bernwood

Pholiota sp, Bernwood #fungifriends #shrooms #fungi

Big mushroom, little mushroom #fungifriends #mycology #shrooms

Pluteus umbrosus, Bernwood #fungifriends

Leccinum albostipitatum, Bernwood #fungifriends #mycology #mushrooms

Possibly hemistropharia albocrenulata #fungifriends #mycology #mushrooms

Lepiota magnispora or clypeolaria, Bernwood #fungifriends #fungifriday

Spotted my first ever deaths head hawkmoth yesterday by the Cherwell in Oxford #mothing #hawkmoth #uknature #inverts #moths

Pluteus species all loving the decaying elm trees in Bernwood, cervinus, chrysophlebius, umbrosus and salicinus

I found 3 more there ,one of which was coming from the growing point of pickerel weed, pontederia cordata, I presume the rest were on decaying stems of the same

Thank you Piotr, yes indeed it is. Someone did the microscope work and it is being sent for sequencing. There aren’t many uk records though probably pseudo rare!

Male sharp tailed bee,Coelyoxys sp hanging about on my bee hotel. They are kleptoparasites of leaf cutter bees, megachile sp and hairy footed flower bees both of which use the hotel #invertebrates #kleptoparasites #uknature #beehotels #insects #oxfordwildlife #macro

Black hairstreak, Bernwood Meadows, rare in uk #butterflies #ukbutterflies #hairstreaks #macro

Weird! While clearing blanket weed from an ornamental pond ,I came across three of these small capped mushrooms growing on pondweed or something on the water surface. Nobody seems to be able to id for certain so I will try to collect one for further study, Oxford #mycology #fungifriends #ukwildlife

Not rare but always lovely : 6 spot burnet #MothMatters

Beautiful red belted clearwing moth ,Oxford #TeamMoth

A lovely red- belted clearwing moth came to visit my Oxfordshire home, #moths #Oxford wildlife #clearwing
#entomology #insects

There are over 6000 species of parasitic wasp in the uk, very little is known about many of them, which is strangely pleasing to me! This is one of them from my Oxford garden , any help iding much appreciated #entomology #macro #parasiticwasps #uknature #inverts

Some more treasures from Bernwood today #slimemouldsaturday #fungifriends #forestfloor #uknature #myxos

Treasure in Bernwood #slimemouldsaturday #fungifriends #forestfloor #bernwood #uknature

This was my first one , last month, a confusingly worn specimen , Oxford

I’m wondering whether they are going to increase their population as daldinia concentrica seem to like all the dead and dying ash trees