Congrats to Scottishdude and Saphire, :clap::clap: those are both gorgeous shots, and thanks to those who voted for mine, I didn't expect to do anything like so well against such a great selection of shots and am very chuffed. :-O
Steve
I'm sure I'll be soon corrected if wrong, but as far as I know the only one of your plants not considered native is the cotoneaster. Unless things have changed in the fog of time since my youth, the only native cotoneaster is Welsh cotoneaster, C.cambricus. I went to look for it years ago on...
I reckon that;
1. - common mallow, malva sylvestris
2. - pass
3. looks like a cotoneaster, an introduced species.
4. Great willowherb? Epilobium hirsutum
Steve
I'd have thought that taking a slash in the undergrowth was actually the eco-friendly option. No wasting gallons of water flushing, not to mention the noxious blue chemicals etc people seem obsessed with adding to the sewage system. Just biodegradable, (sterile IIRC), nitrogen rich plant food...
I know nothing about US butterflies, but if that is not a Berger's Clouded Yellow, Colias alfacariensis, then it must be a close relative.
Steve
ps the kestrel's made me laugh :)
pps gorgeous shots I'm very envious.
Thanks for the comments on both of these threads Leif,
I think I may have to update my books, the Phillip's I've got is one of the originals from the early eighties, those blasted taxonomists have changed loads of names since then without telling me :)
Continued from previous post.
Number three looks like an Inocybe, maybe I. napipes ?
Finally a bolete of some description, closest match I've found is B. lanatus which is described as rare by Phillips. Any other suggestions?
Thanks for looking
Steve
A few from a walk in my local woods (mixed conifer and broadleaf) that I'd like some ID help with.
The first two look like Amanitas to me. There were a lot of Blushers in these woods but the first is a bit different and I was wondering about Panther. The second has me beat closest I seen is A...
I'll have a go at the easier ones.
1. Many zoned polyphore (Coriolus versicolor)
2 & 3 pass
4. possibly a mouldy bolete of some kind
5. Fly Agaric (Amanita muscaria)
My money would be on Harlequin, specifically Harmonia axyridis conspicua (have a look here, http://www.harlequin-survey.org/recognition_and_distinction.htm# ).
How big was it? Harlequin are big, about twice the size of two-spot.
Hi Neil, nice variety of species to find on one walk. I don't know all of them but I would say that;
1. Looks like a Boletus, probably Brown beech boletus (Leccinum scabrum)
2. Fly Agaric (Amanita muscaria) very poisonous
3. No idea
4. Another Boletus but can't tell which one.
5. May be...
It appears to have too many pro-legs for a moth or butterfly caterpillar. I suspect that it may actually be a sawfly larva, but I don't know the species.
"Difficult'" is an understatement, keeping that in frame and in focus long enough to press the shutter is very impressive. No wonder you're pleased with it.
Female Giant Ichneumon (Rhyssa persuasoria) drilling into a larch log with her ovipositor in order to lay her eggs on the larvae of a Wood wasp (Orocerus gigas)
I think that, from left to right, you've got:
1. Common blue - Polyommatus icarus
2. Small Heath - Coenonympha pamphilus
3. Small Copper - Lycaena phlaeas
4. Speckled Wood - Pararge aegeria
5. ?
Definitely not M.vulgare, (White Horehound) for me. As the name suggests that has white flowers and is downy white all over, Black Horehound (Ballota nigra) is a better colour match but has completely different shape flowers. Your pic looks much better for Corn mint to me although one of the...
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