Saturday, 11 February 2012

Brown

Snail Beetle (Red Form)

Facts
Order: 
Silphidae
Common Family: 
Sexton Beetles
Length: 
10-15mm
Information
Habitat: 

damp,shade, altho shade may be local e.g. provided by hedge etc on otherwise open dry ground

Diet: 

carrion, mainly snails etc

Status: 

Red more unusual than black

Bird's-nest Orchid

Facts
Height: 
Up to 50cm

Snaketongue Truffleclub

Information
Additional Notes: 

This fungus is parasitic on False Truffle fungi -  Elaphomyces muricatus & Elaphomyces granulatus

Second image shows C.ophioglossoides parasitising Elaphomyces muricatus.

A barkfly

Images
Female Image: 
Facts
Order: 
Psocoptera
Information
Description: 

A rarely-recorded barkfly.

Distribution: 

Rare in Britain and uncommon in Ireland. 

Habitat: 

Associated with wood and brickwork. Inorganic substrates, such as house walls and rock.

Watermead Country Park

Map Info
Nearest Town: 
Thurmaston
County: 
Leicestershire
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Information
Wildlife Description: 

Birds

Tufted duck, Coot, Mallard, Mute Swan, Great Crested Grebe, Grey Heron, Cormorant, Kingfisher, Pochard, Shoveler, Bullfinch, Common Gull, Crow, Dunlin, Goldcrest, Goldfinch, Goosander, Lapwing, Shelduck, Tree Sparrow, Wigeon, Wren, Canada Goose, Moorhen

Butterflies and moths

Speckled wood, Small White, Large White, Gatekeeper, Cinnabar moth, Small Skipper, Ringlet, Peacock, Red Admiral, Comma

Dragonflies and Damselflies

Brown Hawker, Common Blue Damselfly, Blue-tailed Damselfly, Banded demoiselle damselfly

Insects

Soldier Beetle, Green Bottle, Speckled Bush-Cricket,  

Other Vertibrates

Grass Snake, Grey Squirrel

 

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