Fungus Fantasia - reserve fungus list goes over 300

So in a busy weekend I managed to sneak out to the woods for an hour and a half - and what an hour and a half! 9 new fungus species for the reserve and 5 of them lifers.

First up, before the woods, was this pathside Volvopluteus gloiocephalus

Then into the woods the Oak Milkcap, sometimes called the Oakbug Milkcap, which is an oak mycorrhyzal species which smells of bugs. Its milk is white, only mildly turning yellow-ish on tissue.

There were Amethyst Deceivers

... and plain old Deceivers (Laccaria laccata)

There was Hydnum repandum

And Sulphur Knight, Tricholoma sulphureum, in amongst the roadside debris and litter (leaf litter and actual litter).

There was also the rather splendid Thelephora anthocephala

This already recorded Cortinarius bolaris (Dappled Webcap) was very pretty

There were the usual suspects of 1000 Russula nobilis (Beech Sickener) and Lactarius Blennius and Tricholoma sciodes (Beech Knight) and all in all it was a magnificent sight.

On Sunday I managed a lifer spider (Centromerita bicolor) from a grass pile and the little yellow springtail Dicyrtomina minuta 

All in all a productive weekend, with the reserve additions for this year now over 400, and the fungus list over 300

Latest additions to yearlist:

1098			R		diptera	Calliphora subalpina	Wood Bluebottle
1099			R		lep-moth	Epiblema costipunctata	A micro moth
1100			R	M	Fungus	Volvopluteus gloiocephalus	Stubble Rosegill
1101			R	M	Fungus	Hydnum repandum	Wood Hedgehog
1102			R	M	Fungus	Thelephora anthocephala
1103			R		Fungus	Tricholoma suplhureum	Sulphur Knight
1104			R		Fungus	Lactarius quietus	Oak Milkcap
1105			R		Fungus	Amanita submembranacea
1106			R	M	Fungus	Cortinarius torvus
1107			R	M	Fungus	Cortinarius elatior
1108			R		Fungus	Laccaria lacccata	The Decevier
1109					Fungus	Amanita rubescens
1110					Fungus	Cortinarius hinnuleus	Earth Webcap
1111					Fungus	Lactarius blennius	Beech Milkcap
1112					Fungus	Laccaria amethystina	Amethyst Deceiver
1113					Fungus	Russula atropurpurea
1114			R	M	spider	Centromerita bicolor	A linyphiid spider
1115			R		collembola	Dicyrtomina minuta	A springtail

Springtail Dicyrtomina saundersi - 3rd for Scotland

Of course it's already recorded at Dumbarnie Links - a familiar square on any NBN map! The final character that sorts this one out is the little orthogonal (crossish) pattern at the rear end

Lunchtime roundup

This morning I dropped in and set up a few pitfall traps in a rather amateur and haphazard way. At lunchtime I was amazed to see that I had captured a ground beetle which I will attempt to key out later.

A wee bit of log rolling turned up a few White-legged Snake-millipedes (Tachypodoiulus niger) and as a thought while looking at the pond I gave some Pine needle litter a bit of a shake and produced a whopping and excitingly-patterned springtail (whopping and excitingly-patterned for a springtail, that is) - Orchesella cincta. Not a bad trip.

Caught and released millipede

My amateur-hour yoghurt pot pitfall trap

Hazel progression

Oncopsis flavicollis

Springtail

Shaken from Rhytidiadelphus squarrosus under the pines yesterday, I reckon this springtail is most likely Isotomurus palustris based on its setae.I'd like to see more pattern on it ideally, but I can have another look

Here's a nice illustrated key: Collembola key