Frequent heavy showers.
Two shots of a female Bulrush Wainscot - Nonagria typhae. The full life-cycle can be seen on my latest Species Profile.
Moth larvae on flowers often turn out to be Pug moths, especially if they are 'loopers'. This is Lime-speck Pug - Eupitheca centaureata.
This specimen of Devilsbit Scabious seems to have had a change of plan. The two upper flowers branch from the head of another flower lower down.
We've had rain every day for a month, now. The fungi are beginning to pop up everywhere.
This is Amanita rubescens - The Blusher.
I think I'll make a trip to Ards forest on Sunday.
Baeomyces rufus is a lichen I normally associate with rocks, but this patch is on an old stump.
Suillus luteus has the common name Slippery Jack, and it's certainly one of the most viscid mushrooms I've come across. The pale mushroom at the top of the image is almost certainly Suillus flavidus, which is even more slippery. Maybe I can get a comparison shot later.
