750 milestone reached!

So the 750th species for the year was also the 125th species of fungus for the reserve - a rust on Coltsfoot leaf which I don't have great pics of. Instead here's a lovely Velvet shank - Flammulina velutipes

Also seenon the day was this lovely frozen Tremella mesenterica, which could have served as an ice cube!

Rush Disco

A small cup fungus on the base of Soft Rush Juncus effusus, this is the latest addition to the fungal flora of Cullaloe. To the list anyway - it's supposed to be common, just as many other species with no apprent records on NBN from Fife/VC85. I suppose I should go and record it from the adjacent hectad as well.

More pictures at:
http://mycomagic.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/rush-disco.html

Totals

Clouded Funnel - common but new

With a month and a half to go and some groups still to receive special attention it seems that this year's species total will exceed 750 comfortably. Fungi are still popping up all over to deconstruct the untidy green stuff that summer has left all over the place and lichens and mosses will come to the fore. Currently at 744 species in total there are also still a bee and a number of spiders to process.

Taxon Group	Recs	Spp.
acarine (Acari)	1	1
amphibian	4	3
bird	88	79
centipede	2	2
conifer	2	2
crustacean	5	4
false scorpion	3	1
fern	4	4
flowering plant	184	157
fungus	111	87
harvestman (Opiliones)	2	2
horsetail	2	2
insect - alderfly (Megaloptera)	2	2
insect - beetle (Coleoptera)	29	23
insect - butterfly	25	10
insect - dragonfly (Odonata)	2	2
insect - earwig (Dermaptera)	1	1
insect - hymenopteran	10	7
insect - lacewing (Neuroptera)	1	1
insect - moth	154	119
insect - orthopteran	1	1
insect - scorpion fly (Mecoptera)	1	1
insect - stonefly (Plecoptera)	2	1
insect - true bug (Hemiptera)	8	8
insect - true fly (Diptera)	242	84
lichen	24	19
liverwort	16	12
millipede	5	4
mollusc	4	3
moss	75	58
slime mould	1	1
spider (Araneae)	53	38
springtail (Collembola)	2	2
terrestrial mammal	3	3