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

"It's starting again"

Calais Muir Wood and Duloch Park. A brief lunchtime diversion for when time is short

30/10/2015
Taxon Group	Number of Records	Number of Taxa
bird	18	16
conifer	1	1
fern	3	3
flowering plant	9	9
fungus	3	3
insect - hymenopteran	1	1
lichen	2	2
liverwort	3	2
moss	11	11
		48

Nothing really interesting so far, but you never know. An interesting patch in that it's basically an island on the edge of new housing development with a nice mix of trees and an area kept open by power lines is wet enough to hold Sphagnum.

Long time ...

It;s been almost a month since the last update from Cullaoe, though recording continues and records approach 750 species for the year. Of late fungi have been standing out, though these three not so much!

Two new species for the reserve and one new for me:

Leptosporomyces garzinii - new to me

Botryobasidium subcoronatum - v.commonly encountered

Botryobasidium conspersum - new to reserve

Drapetisca socialis

Tree bark loving Linyphiid spider Drapetisca socialis

Fungus frenzy

Back from holidays and back to adding new species to the catalogue!

A couple of new fungi added to the list and a couple of new spiders for me, although one is already recorded on the reserve (Meta segmentata). Spider pics to follow since I left my camera at home.

The first fungus is Hebeloma pusillum, growing in association with willows on boggy ground. The second is Russula fellea, the Geranium Brittlegill (because it smells like geraniums). Other fungi were added to the year list, but weren't new (Wrinkled Shield, Woolly Milkcap, Clustered Toughshank, Redleg Toughshank)

The second spider is Drapetisca socialis, a Linyphiid which was in its expected niche of Beech tree bark.

H.pusillum

H.pusillum

Geranium Brittlegill