Dead Wood Habitat

[Parker]

Nice work Dave. Its good to see some really nice coronet cuts and the tree being saved as a monolith.

[David Humphries]

An oak monolith that is slowly crumbling away......

 

 

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[David Humphries]

An oak monolith that is slowly crumbling away.......

 

sections of the dismantled tree lay about its feet and are home to an array of saprophytes.

 

here, Enteridium (Reticularia) lycoperdon - slime mould

 

 

 

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[Adam Bourne]

Coooool

 

 

Crows looked like there using as a look out post, any signs of bats?

 

 

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[David Humphries]

An oak monolith that is slowly crumbling away......

 

the base of the trunk & the top scaffolds of what's left of the tree are hosting the fruiting of Laetiporus sulphureus

 

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[David Humphries]

any signs of bats?

 

No 'specific' signs of bats Adam (there's a lot of other potential habitat here), but I will get the monolith looked over before a decision is made on a further reduction in the next year or so as this annual X country is right under its lean and getting the course changed will be more difficult than a further reduction.

 

 

 

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[Rhino1bam]

I'm really do apologise about this Chaps I would like to identify some little critters Seems this Is dead wood habitat and these live near Deadwood in the ground and sting Are they wasps ore bees I know some species of bees are locked bees are protected If wasp just smoke out [ATTACH]128548[/ATTACH][ATTACH]128549[/ATTACH] Took loads of pictures just noticed my mistakef coming out of the whole they are there about 10 mm big long thin yellow and black Not much help I know

[David Humphries]

Sorry, but I don't see anything in that picture

 

 

 

 

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[David Humphries]

a close look at wood degraded by Ganoderma applanatum from within this Acer monolith

 

 

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[sean freeman]

Lovely pics David, assuming the larger holes honeycombing the samples are the result of invertebrate activity?