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High Heath.

 

Cloudy but dry.

 

A very few of my Devilsbit Scabious plants have flowers with reversed colours. Each specimen plant has all flowers the same.

Larvae on flowers are usually Pug Moths, especially if they are 'loopers'. This is the larva of the Ling Pug. I suppose the body shape helps it to stand on one floret with its head buried inside another. Ling Pug - Eupithecia absinthiata f. goossensiata - is thought to be a form of the Wormwood Pug - Eupithecia absinthiata.

    

A bit of a puzzle. This little (12mm. cap) mushroom was growing in moss. I took a specimen to get some spores and they turned out to be black. That limits us to only a few families, but none of those have pronounced rings like this one has.

    

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