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  1. Paul in the woods
    The first pic is a box tree moth by the looks of it. https://butterfly-conservation.org/moths/box-tree-moth The other two pics look like a cockchafer beetle, assuming it's on your finger. If it's on your knee I've no idea but it's a huge beetle.
  2. Paul in the woods
    I would suggest the bark beetles are attacking dead or dying wood. When I've felled healthy ash and left the logs down for a few months I notice ash bark beetle damage. I've not noticed it on healthy living trees. I've just removed a 25yr old, ash with obvious ash dieback. It looked very similar to your post with a dead crown and fresh growth and missing bark with beetle damage. I'm sure the beetles fly, each year we get covered in them. The car windscreen for example can get covered in the beetles. We live on the edge of some woodland with a large amount of ash.
  3. Paul in the woods
    Any cones on the MP? I gather the seeds are sought after and you might get a worthwhile crop from those.
  4. Paul in the woods
    Looks like a Vapourer moth caterpillar, Orgyia antiqua.
  5. Paul in the woods
    I know, but someone I know with a plantation of walnuts grown for the nuts often looses the crop to frost. I had a quick search to see about growing walnut timber trees and it seems frost and poor form are widely accepted as problems and new cultivars have been developed over the last few years to overcome this. Perhaps people are now planting them.
  6. Paul in the woods
    Is there a variety of walnut that is hardy enough for the UK? I have a few walnuts in my woodland, planted by the previous owner, and most springs they get damaged by frost. This year virtually all the fresh leaves have been killed off. Obviously walnuts do grow but can you guarantee a good crop in the uk compared to say France or further south?
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  8. Paul in the woods
    Have you tried searching the map with a post code? If I search by a town nothing shows, if I pick a random postcode the loads of sites show.
  9. Paul in the woods
    My little Stihl domestic MSA120c doesn't seem to loose charge if not used for a couple of months. The battery has a charge indicator on it so you can check as well.
  10. Paul in the woods
    One thing I would add is don't forget the maintenance if you do allow them to use your land. If there's a leak in the future and you've perhaps widened your drive, do you want them to be able to dig it all up to repair their services? What if they sell up etc?
  11. Paul in the woods
    It looks like a very young Chicken of the Woods, Laetiporus sulphureus. I would normally expect it to be a bit more yellow although you do see them flushed pink like that. Keep an eye on it and see how it develops.
  12. Paul in the woods
    This might be worth a read, especially the medical uses. If you're spraying sap about it might be worth noting it can be diuretic so you may need to ensure you don't dehydrate. https://pfaf.org/user/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Cytisus+scoparius
  13. Paul in the woods
    Is it not some form of lilac, Syringa?
  14. Paul in the woods
    Agree, a young chicken of the woods.
  15. Paul in the woods
    This might be worth a read if anyone else has a problem.
  16. Paul in the woods
    It looks like a type of Nothofagus.
  17. Paul in the woods
    I thought it was also that slime mould, ageing from the young white to the harder silver then brown body. It grows a lot round here on hazel but I wasn't sure about it growing on chestnut. Some good photos here: Enteridium lycoperdon - False Puffball (Slime Mould Images) WWW.APHOTOFUNGI.COM APHOTOFUNGI - Photographic Stock Image Library Page for Enteridium lycoperdon synonym Reticularia lycoperdon -...
  18. Paul in the woods
    Does it have any flowers or fruit? Looks a bit like snowberry, Symphoricarpos.
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  20. Paul in the woods
    Looks like a hole punch set of some sort. A quick google shows up a gasket punch set here: Sealey 10 Piece Gasket Punch Set | Hole Punches WWW.TOOLED-UP.COM Buy Sealey 10 Piece Gasket Punch Set and other Sealey Hole Punches at Tooled-Up.com. Fast Delivery.
  21. Paul in the woods
    I know that plant as the parasitic purple thing, a quick google reminds me it's purple toothwort. Wiki says it's know as clandestine in France, is that true?
  22. Paul in the woods
    Does it have a smell at all? To me at least different woods can smell very different, mature oak for example smells almost horseradishy. (That may well just be me though).
  23. Paul in the woods
    Your shrub looks like a viburnum to me, possibly Viburnum tinus or similar. Which would mean the damage is very likely to be viburnum beetle. If you google that you'll see lots of pics of similar damage.
  24. Paul in the woods
    I would suggest it's a large grey oyster mushroom, Pleurotus ostreatus. You'd obviously need to be sure if anyone intends to nibble it but it's a starting point.
  25. Paul in the woods
    Have you thought about hurley sticks? Plenty of old posts if you search on hurley. E.g

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