"For now we are young let us lay in the sun and count every beautiful thing we can see" Neutral Milk Hotel.

Saturday 18 November 2017

Another pine aphid

Active Grey Pine-needle Aphid, Eulachnus rileyi , Holme NWT, 18th November 2017 - grey form, brown form and a waxy individual




Pine-cone Bug

Pine-cone Bug Gastrodes grossipes, Holme NWT, 18th November 2017


Tuesday 14 November 2017

Two leafhoppers

Zygina flammigera, Green Bank (off Blackthorn), 13th November 2017


Eupteryx urticae, Green Bank (off nettle), 13th November 2017






Monday 13 November 2017

Three dune fungi

Dune Brittlestem, Psathyrella ammophila, Holme NWT, 5th November 2017


Dune Cavalier, Melanoleuca cinereifolia, Holme NWT, 11th November 2017


Poronia erici, Holme NWT, 5th November 2017


Snowy Waxcap

Snowy Waxcap Hygrocybe virginea var virginea, Holme NOA, 13th NOvember 2017



A smart Staphylinid from Green Bank

Tachyporus obtusus, Green Bank, 13th November 2017


Two pine aphids from Holme

Waxy grey pine needle aphid, Schizolachnus pineti, Holme NWT, 13th November 2017



Corsican Pine Aphid, Cinara acutirostris, Holme NWT, 13th November 2017



Hawthorn Shieldbug

Hawthiorn Shieldbug, Green Bank, 13th November 2017


A dune Cortinaria

Cortinaria pratensis, Holme NOA, 13th November 2017



Saturday 11 November 2017

Two new willow aphids for the patch

Giant Willow Aphid, Tuberolachnus salignus, Holme NWT, 11th November 2017




Plocamaphis flocculosa, Holme NWT, 11th November 2017


Plocamaphis flocculosa, Holme NWT, 13th November 2017


P. flocculosa and T. saligus together on same branch, Holme NWT, 13th November 2017


Saturday 4 November 2017

Two smart fungi

Geastrum corontaum, Holme NWT, 24th September 2017


Sycamore Tar Spot, Ringstead Downs, 24th September 2017


Dark Spectacle

Dark Spectacle, Holme NOA, 23rd September 2017


Off Patch: a selection form September & October

Autumnal Rustic, Weeting Heath, 16th October 2017


L-album Wainscot, Weeting Heath, 16th October 2017


Small Bloody-nosed Beetle, Dunwich Heath, Suffolk, 13th October 2017


Panagaeus bipustulatus, Heach north dunes, 11th October 2017


The ladybird Platynaspis luteorubra, Cley, 9th October 2017


Apion frumentarium, Cley, 9th October 2017


Red-necked Phalarope, Kelling Water Meadow, 9th October 2017


Araneus quadratus, Roydon Common, 2nd October 2017


Heather Ladybird, Roydon Common, 2nd October 2017


Fly Agaric, Roydon Common, 2nd October 2017



Wangford Warren, 2:50pm, 16th October 2017 - the storm approaches !


The Mallow

The Mallow, Holme NWT, 15th October 2017


Hedgehog

Hedgehog, Ringstead Downs, 29th September 2017


A new Tenebrionid and a new Dermestid beetle for the patch

Xanthomus pallidus (Tenebrionidae), Hunstanton, 11th October 2017


Bacon Beetle, Dermestes lardarius, Holmhurst Track, 18th September 2017


New England Aster - new for the patch

New England Aster or Hairy Michaelmas Daisy, Aster novae-angliae, Old Hunstanton (orchid slacks), 27th October 2017 - a nice find by Phil Amies


Spotted Redshank and Bearded Tit

Spotted Redshank, Thornham Harbour, 8th October 2017


Bearded Tit, Holme NOA, 8th October 2017

Three autumn dune fungi

Sand Stinkhorn, Phallus hadriani Holme NWT, 30th September 2017


Arched Earthstar Geastrum fornicatum, Holme NWT, 8th October 2017



Dune Cup, Peziza ammophila, Holme NWT, 3rd November 2017