Please refer to the Introduction Page to understand the context behind the monthly photographs.
Bees
Note how often Knap Weed appears in the following photographs.
Beetles
Butterflies
Damselflies
Dragonflies
Fungi
Galls
Grasshoppers
Moths
Spiders
The White Crab Spider wating for the right prey an ambush specialist.
Trees
Witch's broom is a deformity in a tree where the natural structure of the branch is changed. A dense mass of twigs grows out from a single point, with the resulting structure forming a dense tangle of young branches sometimes called a birds nest. The local deformity is attributed to tree damage, insects or other pathogens. More than one of these can occur on a tree.
The Turkey Oak is a non-native oak imported around 1700 into the UK. The acorns grow from the tangled base and could be mistaken at first for an insect Gall. Note the leaves are also a very much elongated version of our native oak trees.
Ones that escaped the camera lens this month
a) Roe Deer.