Monday 9 October 2017

Common Blues, stinkhorns and other fungi

Common Blue ♀, Polyommatus icarus
I conducted my last butterfly transect at Mill Hill on September 25th and met Dave Cook who pointed out a lovely female Common Blue.
 Last week I met Mark at Pulborough Brooks for a fungi hunt. We found plenty of Stinkhorns at the wooded area where they have been seen in previous years but this year there were plenty, including an immaculate specimen.
Common Blue

Common Blue

Mill Hill
Pulborough Brooks
Amethyst Deceiver, Laccaria amethystina

unidentified mushroom
Coral slime, Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa
a slimemould

unidentified mushrooms

unidentified fungus

Earpick Fungus, Auriscalpium vulgare

Earpick Fungus
False Deathcap, Amanita citrina


Hornet, Vespa crabro

unidentified mushroom

unidentified mushroom
Stinkhorn, Phallus impudicus


Stinkhorn 'egg'







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