Out and about in local woodland today on the hunt for microfungi .Over the moon to find another Pseudoscorpion but what on earth these two larvae are goodness only knows !😆

I'm needing assistance on this lichen, found on a stone at the edge of a fresh water lake !VC62 !Any help much appreciated !🙂

Yet again i have stumbled upon a lovely little critter 😃.Any help of an ID would be great !TIA.

This little chap was hiding in a fungi sample that i brought home.What on Earth is it? Anyone able to help 🤔

Temperature dropped to -7.2 last night and the Esk has a thin coat of ice !Lealholm, VC62 !

Chaeonothecia ferruginea on an old Oak here in North Yorkshire !🙂

A quick wander down by the river produced some nice fungi today !Great start to the year !Scarlet elf cup, Orange peel fungi and Illosporopsis christiansenii !🤗

Just call me Golden balls !! Amazing slime mould found under a wet log here in VC62 !

Yep, more Slime moulds.Sorry can't name them !😌

Great Slime mould weather !

Ooh thanks !It was under a log so would be hanging down.

In winter i spend a lot of time in the woods turning over pieces of wood/branches, hoping to find Ascos.On christmas eve i found this little beauty.Obsi says its an Epo !Any info would be greatly accepted 😃

And finally just for Christmas , mother nature had made a Peltigera wreath for us!🤗

Cladonia piccys !!🙄

There were lots of stunning Cladonia species of course !

Usnea daspoga ?

Usnea wasmuthii ?

More Usnea daspoga.

Peltigera membrenacea 🤔

More lichens from yesterday .NYMNP.

Melanohalea exasperatula?

Tuckermanopsis chlorophylla ?

Bryoria sp.Very wet !

Yesterday 5 of us intrepid naturalists braved the fog and visited a very remote Larch stand on the edge of the NYMNP to look at the rare lichens there !We weren't disappointed !😃

With the fungi season slowly dwindling my attention turns towards lichens.Today i was rewarded with a new one:Coniocarpon cinnabarinum !!On Hazel by a stream side in VC62.Spores averaged 9.6 x 25.6 um !Yes i have purchased a microscope ! No VC62 records 🤔 .

Out on the moors today looking at Fungi.More examples of Lichenomphalia umbellifera found and possibly Laetisaria lichenicola on Physcia 🤔 .@jennyseawright.

How fitting that my Deaths head Hawk moth has emerged on Halloween.🙂

I found this wonderful Cladonia on the moor edge here in VC62.Cladonia rangiformis or C rangiferina perhaps 🤔

My first ever Pseudoscorpion !OMG what a little beauty, possibly Neobisium carcinoides.Arncliffe woods, VC62 .

Out on the moors today looking at lichens.Pleased to find Lichenomphalia umbellifera ! @aspenecology.com

Gotta luv a Weevil.Curculio glandium 😃

Called in to see a friend today at Ruswarp, near Whitby , VC62.As we walked round her lovely garden we spotted, Western conifer seed bug,Box bug and Hawthorn shieldbug.Also 2 fresh Common blues and 4 Small copper butterflies !

Aren't Cladonias just amazing !!🙂

This Fistulina hepatica ( Beefsteak fungus) was a tad " overdone" for my liking !😆

Today i noticed a thallus of Hypogymnia with yellow patches.I presumed a fungal attack, however a friend has suggested Usnic acid leachate 🤔🤔

Gotta love a Pale tussock catty !🙂

After 12mm of rain over the last 2 days, some of the common lichens on the moors look much fresher !Platismatia glauca and Parmelia omphalodes here on a large wooden post !