Both of these caterpillars walked across in front of me one afternoon.
The first is a pine hawk moth,
hyloicus pinastri. Unsurprisingly, I was standing under a pine tree when I saw it!
The second is a pale tussock moth,
calliteara pudibunda. This feeds on a range of shrubs, so I don't know which it eats in my garden.
Now to the fungi! It seems to have been a particularly prolific year for them here.
A birch polypore has appeared on the same tree as
last year.
These are new to me. There is a huge number of these growing in one of my raised beds. I believe they are white domecaps,
lyophyllum connatum. I think some spores must have come in with the compost.
I have five or six of these around my grassed areas. I am fairly sure that they are boletes,
boletus cisalpinus.
The blue staining in the cut stem and the bruised pores are indicative of this species.
Another common one. There are lots of these common earthballs around the garden. They seemed to start really early this year and I have never seen so many before.
These are not the only fungi in the garden. There are several others. Small ones in the grass and huge clumps on the old tree stumps, but I have not got round to recording all of them! Perhaps I'll photograph a different set next year.
