Strumpshaw Fen









Clark's Mining Bee (Andrena clarkella)
All males - even males on males - no females or associated Nomads visible today

Elfcup Sp

Hymenoscyphus vernus
Hazel Bracket (Skeletocutis semipileata)


From AW
Asteroma robergei with minute pycnidia seated on a mat of radiating brown hyphae
Mollisia Sp?


Snowy Disco (Lachnum virgineum)
Common Mazegill (Datronia mollis)

Mollisia Sp
Mollisia cinerea

Small black balls (Berlesiella nigerrima) on Birch Woodwart (Jackrogersella multiformis) . Also a small red fungus Cosmospora annulohypoxyli
Arcyria ferruginea?
Owl Midge Sp (Drain Fly, Sewer Fly , Moth Fly, Filter Fly), of which there are 99 species in the UK 


Leaf 6mm
x40
Leaf bases running down into the stem
Uniformly toothed all around the edge of the leaf
cells in diagonal rows
Tall Thyme-moss (Plagiomnium elatum)



x200
x400
Fungus (Polycephalomyces tomentosum) growing on a Slime Mold (Trichia facoginea)
Sweet White Violet (Viola odorata alba)


Red-tailed Bumble Bee (Bombus lapidarius)
Tree Bumble Bee (Bombus hypnorum)

Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa
Colletotrichum samarum on Ash (Fraxinus excelsior) Key
Common Tree Chernes (Chernes cimicoides)

Dotty Thyme-moss (Rhizomnium punctatum)
with the liverwort
Bifid Crestwort (Lophocolea bidentata)



A creamy yellow hymenium became more obvious as they opened. Short stalked, growing on Salix.
The last image shows how they change colour (reddish, pink, orange) as they age
Lachnum pudibundum

Diaporthe pardolata on Dogwood (Cornus sanguinea)
Tremella versicolor on Peniophera
Fungus Sp

Lophiostoma semiliberum on Reed (Phragmites australis)
Blickling


Hairy Curtain Crust (Stereum hirsutum)

Mollisia ligni
?


Common Tar Crust (Diatrype stigma)



X400
Spore 29.88 µm x 9.96 µm
from AW
The Nectria found on Ivy close to the start was Thyronectria sinopic

Leptotrochila ranunculi on Creeping Buttercup (Ranunculus repens)
Small black ascos on the leaf

Lichen Sp

Unusually with leaf gemmae
Cylindric Beard-moss (Didymodon insulanus)
Cape thread-moss (Orthdontium lineare)



Cladonia Sp


Larvae?
From JE
These are Thrips, subfamily Phlaeothripidae, which mostly feed on fungi. Can be identified by the larvae but only by experienced observers.
Fly Sp





Slime Mold Sp
From AW
The shiney black slime mold with orange spores was Metatrichia floriformis



Slime Mold Sp
Arcyria ferruginea?


Common Tar Crust (Diatrype stigma) on Beech (Fagus sylvatica)
SPider Sp & Mite Sp

Ochre Spreading Tooth (Stecherinum ochraceum)

Badhamis untricularis

Cinnamon Bracket (Hapilopilus nidulans)

Cacumisporium capitulatum
Spore 23 x 4 µm



Spore 2 x 1.5 µm
From AW
The 'Tequila sunrise' resupinate was Tomentella crinalis



X 200
Spore 38.35 µm x 17.7 µm
From AW
The pale synnemata on the rotten wood were Phaeoisaria clematidis - this is meant to be common according to Ellis & Ellis, but there is only one record on the Mycota dating back to 1946
Synnamata - specilaized, upright asexual reproducitve structures produced by certain fungi where numerous conidiohores fuse to form a stalk-like, often branched, bundle.
This can be clearly seen in the images above.
Phaeoisaria clematidis
Bifid Crestwort (Lophocolea bidentata) fruiting





Coprinellus (tulosesus) impatiens
Nectria Sp
Craterium minutum

Slime Mold Sp
Stemonitis Sp
Hypoxylon minutum


Ganoderma Sp
from AC
with a slighly zoned top - Artist's Bracket (Ganoderma aplanatum)


Slime Mold Sp

Elfcup Sp (Sarcoscypha Sp)
From TL
On balance: esp width of spores
Scarlet Elfcup (Sacroscypha austriaca)
Nectria Sp on King Alfred's Cakes (Daldinia)

Wolf's Milk (Lycogala Sp)
From TL
Lycogala terrestre


The small red fungi in the bottom right of this image are Cosmospora uceline
Brittle Cinder (Kretzchmaria deusta)
Brittle Cinder Fungus
Bartlett Tree Experts

X 40
X 100
Enlarged to show how the mid-leaf scales scarcely overlap.
Thus
Woodsy Silk-moss (Plagiothecium nemorale)
Beech Mast Fungus (Xylaria carpophila)
Lesser Pocket-moss (Fissidens bryoides)
You can see the line of border cells to the edge of the leaf, which is characteristic of this species.
The other common species does not have this feature and is often much larger.

Lichenicolous Fungi Unguiculariopsis thallophila on Lecanora hybocarpa.
From
Dorset Nature
Small feathery fungus (Volutella ciliata) on Beech mast (Fagus sylvatica)


Pyrenopeziza digitalina on Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) stem
