Bug Fung

[sean]

Bumped in to your old LTC colleagues at the trade show on Friday.

 

 

My G is pretty much shot now, second lens is scratched & the flip screen smashed when I was last at Burnham

Tried fixing it myself with a screen import from Hong Kong but that hasn't worked.

 

Still can be used through view finder, but without the screen to view settings its a ball ache. Now just a back up, (though it took the shots above)

 

running with a Fuji FinePix F500EXR for the short term until I can get some decent cash together to replace the G

 

 

Haven't seen many shots from the Harding stable of late.

 

Not shooting as much or not enough time ?

 

 

 

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not shooting as much as the scratch on the lens interferes with so many shots....lots of blurs on image.......got a fair bit of stuff to post up however time has been non existent. Just finished converting a kodak box brownie into a pinhole to embark on my epic veteran tree project........back to basics for me.

[Ben Ballard]

Found these on a fomes a few weeks back not sure what they are but seemed worth having a photo

[sloth]

Fungal mycelium breaking free of this Rosemary Beetle through the joints in its exoskeletal shell - a Cordycep of some sort?

Sorry for poor pic quality

[David Humphries]

Shame about the poor pic quality

 

 

No idea, but interesting little find.

 

What got you looking so close?

 

 

 

 

 

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[sloth]

What got you looking so close?

 

 

 

 

 

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3 year old daughter on a bug hunt! Knee deep in mud looking for worms the next day, while my 1 year old son painted his hair a glittery blue before adding heart stickers to it too- gender stereotypes don't seem to apply at that age, still, he likes anything with wheels and an engine so all hope is not lost!

[David Humphries]

little brother watching me watching fung...........am I being paranoid

 

 

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[David Humphries]

Diptera landing pad......

 

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[Kveldssanger]

Here's a nice new one from the Field Mycology journal (article entitled Phellinus conchatus in Britain is host to Europe's smallest beetle, Baranowskiella ehnstromi), showing that the fungal species scientifically known as Phellinopsis conchata that is found exclusively on Salix sp., is host to the tiny-as-can-be beetle Baranowskiella ehnstromi.

 

As stated at the end of the article, "Mycologists are encouraged to look carefully at the pores of all species of Phellinus and it is even possible that undescribed species of ptiliid beetles exist on different fungal hosts."

 

Curious. Might go and look at some Phellinus pomaceus!

 

British Mycological Society Sign in

[David Humphries]

Across at Burnham Beeches today undertaking some high clearance on beech maidens above old pollards.

 

 

Whilst in the middle of rigging down lumps of beech we became aware of the early emergence of the red wood ants (Formica rufa) from there winter retreat, deep within their woody nests.

 

 

Bit early perhaps as they were literally just stirring from slumber, couple more weeks before they'll be taking to the trees on the forage.

 

 

It reminded me of coming across a nest once at Burnham in the summer that was capped with the slime mold - Fuglio septica which the ants looked to be feeding on, perhaps as a supplement to their usual aphid sugar harvest up in the trees.

 

 

Short video piece on the wood ants from an episode of Countryfile that was filmed at Burnham a couple of years ago

 

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Edited March 8, 2017 by David Humphries

[David Humphries]

Thinking this is Glischrochilus hortensis, the four spotted sap beetle

 

Here on the slime flux exuding from this cut stump

 

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