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Dolycoris baccarum
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Sloe Shield Bug |
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Wildflowers |
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Ox-eye Daises, Red Clover, Lady's Mantle, Common Sorrel, Field Scabious, Ribwort Plantain, Meadow Buttercup and Common Catsear |
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Anas platyrhynchos |
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Mallards - occasional visitors to the pond. |
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Pilosella officinarum |
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Mouse-ear Hawkweed - a typical acid grassland species. |
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Primula vulgaris |
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Primroses - the Prima Rosa - the first flower of spring. |
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View taken on 10 Jun 2006. |
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View taken on 10 Jun 2006 |
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Scleroderma citrinum |
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Common Earthball - an inedible (but not poisonous) fungus commonly found on acid soils. |
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Boletus appendiculatus |
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A large toadstool that can be found in the surrounding grassland. |
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Clavulinopsis helvola |
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A beautiful fungus again associated with acidic heathland soils. |
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Polygonia c-album |
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Comma - so called because of the white comma markings on the underside of its hindwings. |
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Enallagma cyathigerum |
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Common Blue Damselfly - a pale specimen, possibly freshly emerged. |
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Polyommatus icarus |
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Common Blue - a pair mating in the grassland. |
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Thelephora terrestris |
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Earth Fan - a fungus growing on the roots of a diseased Lime tree. |
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Sarcophaga carnaria |
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Flesh Fly - this beautifully coloured fly is attracted to light coloured clothing and white paper. |
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Cherry log that has been thoroughly tunnelled by Stag beetle larvae. |
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Amanita rubescens |
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The blusher - rather dehydrated specimens. |
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Boletus chrysenteron |
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Red-cracking Bolete. |
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Robin's pincushion. a growth on a rose bush caused by the gall wasp Diplolepis rosae. |
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Russula brunneoviolacea |
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Showing signs of being nibbled by slugs. |
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Pyrrhalta viburni |
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Guelder Rose Leaf Beetle |
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