Text Box: Some Notable Fungi

 

Weather Earthstar

 

Striated Earthstar

 

 

Collared Earthstar
Text Box: Interesting Orchids Text Box: More details... Text Box: SPECIES LIST 1 Text Box: With five species of earthstar recorded in our parish, we appear to have good growing conditions for these strange looking fungi! Some of the species have very hygroscopic rays which makes them open in damp conditions and close up when it is very dry, protecting the spore sack.

 

Bee Orchid

 

 

Wasp Orchid

 

 

 

 

 

Common Spotted Orchid
Text Box: We have three different Orchids growing in the parish Ophrys apifera the Bee Orchid and a rare variety of Bee Orchid, the Wasp Orchid Ophrys apifera var trollii. The Common Spotted Orchid is a completely separate species Dactylorhiza fuchsii! Text Box: Significant Wild Plants

 

 

Adders Tongue Fern

 

 

 

Cudweed

 

 

Great Burnet

 

 

 

 

Pepper Saxifrage
Text Box: Adders Tongue Fern ( Ophioglossum vulgatum) Text Box: Marsh Cudweed (Gnaphalium uliginosum) Text Box: Great Burnet (Sanguisorba officinalis) Text Box: Pepper Saxifrage (Silaum silaus) Text Box: More details... Text Box: More Wild Plants Text Box: Parish Butterflies Text Box: Ringlet Aphantopus hyperanthus Meadow Brown Maniola jurtina Hedge Brown Maniola tithonus Speckled Wood Pararge aegeria Marbled White Melanargia galathea Small Tortoiseshell Aglais urticae Peacock Nymphalis io Text Box: Small copper Lycaena phlaeas Brown Argus Aricia agestis Common Blue Polyommatus icarus Holly Blue Celastrina argiolus Orange Tip Anthocharis cardamines Large White Pieris brassicae Small White Pieris rapae Text Box: Bumblebees Text Box: Green veined White Pieris napi Comma Polygonia c-album Painted Lady Vanessa cardui Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta Brimstone Gonepteryx rhamni Large Skipper Ochlodes venatus Small Skipper Thymelicus sylvestris Text Box: Buff-tailed Bumblebee Bombus terestris Large Garden Bumblebee Bombus ruderatus Garden Bumblebee Bombus hortorum Large Red-tailed Bumblebee Bombus lapidarius Text Box: White-tailed Earth bumblebee Bombus lucorum Red-tailed Bumblebee Bombus ruderarius Common Carder Bumblebee Bombus pascuorum Early Meadow Bumblebee Bombus pratorum Text Box: Damselflies and Dragonflies Text Box: Banded Demoiselle Caloptreryx splendens Beautiful Demoiselle Calopteryx virgo Large Red Damselfly Pyrrhosoma nymphula Azure Damselfly Coenagrion puella Blue-tailed Damselfly Ischnura elegans Common Blue Damselfly Enallagma cyathigerum Text Box: More Text Box: DAMSELFLIES Text Box: Broad-bodied Chaser (libellula depressa) Migrant Hawker (Aeshna mixta) Brown Hawker (Aeshna grandis) Common Darter (Sympetrum striolatum) Ruddy Darter (Sympetrum sanguineum) Text Box: DRAGONFLIES Text Box: Above: Southern Hawker (Aeshna cyanea)