... wrote: Hi Paul. Ladybirds have not been common around here this year, but I have seen some small colonies of Halyzia sedecimguttata on horse chestnuts in...
Thanks Sameer, There do seem to be more orange ladybirds about than usual but they may be hiding away - not the best of weather for anyone. Incidentally, you...
Keeping an eye out for this one, Paul, after recent news. As a Fellow of the Zoological Sociery of London, I get alerts early. Visiting Windsor Great Park...
Keeping an eye out for this one, Paul, after recent news. As a Fellow of the Zoological Sociery of London, I get alerts early. Visiting Windsor Great Park...
The most intensively searched fungi site in the UK, Esher Common, has a foray organised for this Sunday. Meet at Horseshoe Clump car park at 10am. Details are...
The Friends of Nunhead Cemetery are organising a foray, led by June Chatfield, on Saturday 23 October at 2pm. Everyone welcome; donations will be appreciated....
Dear Sameer, Well done! The multi-named menace is heading your way. Latest sightings (multiple) in Wandsworth with others over S.E. England up to Ipswich. ...
I love this species! There were even more fruiting bodies in Highgate Wood this afternoon (thanks, Sylvia) - six or seven individuals on one decaying stump,...
June is leading another fungus foray : Sat 6th Nov at Alton Abbey (Hampshire) 10 - 4, cost £15, and she is running a fungus day at South London Botanical...
....spoke to June Chatfield today & firstly the Nunhead foray is a lichen one rather than a fungus foray, however I now have more details about the fungus...
I've updated the foray list again in the FILES section. I've also taken the liberty of going a little off-topic by uploading a PDF file also into the FILES...
Very, very late I know but I only got the information this pm. Croydon Natural History Society's annual foray at Banstead Woods is led by Jane McLauchlin and...
I've found mushrooms which fit all the characteristics of this one, described in Thomas Laessoe's Handbook (Dorling Kindersley), but it isn't in Phillips or...
Dear Hilary, These are the synonyms listed in the checklist: - Crinipellis scabella (Alb. & Schwein.) Murrill, N. Am. Flora Ser. II 4: 287 (1915) Collybia...
Thanks Ted. Yes, they were on grass stems (or roots?) I've uploaded 3 pics. Grid ref TQ326758, postcode Ruskin Park SE5; it probably doesn't have a closer one....
Dear waxcap searchers, Now is the time. A brief stroll over the grassy slope below the former pitch and put at Alexandra Park revealed large patches of ...
Dear Ted, The Pholiota in your picture looks distinctly like P.lenta the white scales being the give away. I have had a few Hygrocybes over the last few weeks...
Dear Andy, Yes I agree. It was the supposed habitat that put me off P. lenta. According to C&D P. lenta is found in leaf litter whereas these are emerging from...
A very good course yesterday with Geoff Kibby at the Field Studies Centre in Epping forest. Only one waxcap, but we did find a Geoglossum species in the...
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Hello, I promise not to mention ladybirds but you'll guess why I'm asking this! Does anyone know of a straightforward text on British 'mildews'? I'm interested...
Assuming that downy mildews = Perenosporales and powdery mildews = Erysiphales then the wonderful Ellis and Ellis ‘Microfungi on land plants’ and the...
The latest issue of British Wildlife contains a very interesting and useful article: Charismatic megafungi - the conservation of waxcap grasslands. It is...
Thanks to Imogen as well as Jez Elkin for leading today's foray at the Chingford end of Epping Forest. 70+ people(!)turned out and nearly everybody stayed to...
Hi, Edward. I read with interest the thread about your foray at Gillespie Park on the 7th November. Can I ask how far outside London you venture? Let me put my...
Dear Sameer, I occasionally foray outside London, most often in Surrey on the Wentworth Estate where my wife’s uncle has a house. Windsor Great Park is famed...
I've put some more documents in the FILES section. They are in a folder called 'Habitat Audits' and are copies of the London Biodiversity Action Plan habitat...
While hunting round the computer looking to free up some space, I came across some fungi-related stuff I downloaded ages ago. Thinking some of it might be more...
Back in June, I posted a notice about a proposed fungal foray visit to Isleworth Ait to take place on Saturday after next. All is now fixed for the trip to...
I've posted the programme for this meeting up in the FILES section. With speakers on, amongst other things, Epping Forest (including nitrogen pollution,...
