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Derby Natural History Society - Some of the Photos Taken on our Outdoor Meetings in 2015:

Hilton Gravel Pits Nature Reserve, Derbyshire, New Year’s Day

1. The party (SF); 2. A job opportunity (SF); 3. The main lagoon (SF); 4. Wood Blewit (WG);

5. Witches’ Butter (WG); 6. Jelly-ear Fungus (WG); 7. Scarlet Elf Cup (SF); 8. Candlesnuff Fungus (WG); 10. Jelly Baby Fungus (WG); 9. A veteran willow (WG); 11. Common Puffball (WG); 12. Premature Hazel catkins (SF) 13. Alder-tongue Fungus (WG); 14. Jelly-ear Fungus (SF); 15.Sue Ford, getting up close


Photos by Stephen Ford (SF) and Bill Grange (WG)

Downs Bank Nature Reserve, Staffordshire, 10th May

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1. Old woodland; 2. Sue Ford and venerable birch; 3. David Gibbons (walk leader), demonstrating the water-holding capacity of sphagnum moss; 4. Young hazel foliage; 5. Pink Purslane; 6. Dandelion; 7. Young beech foliage; 8. Young oak foliage and catkins; 9. Unfurling bracken frond; 10. Wood sorrel; 11. Jack-by-the-hedge; 12. Gorse; 13. Lesser Celandine; 14. Brian Hobby; 15. A llama; 16. Oak catkins; 17. Knobbly alder bole; 18. Goat Willow catkins;

19. And 20. Crab Apple; 21. Red Campion.


Photos by Stephen Ford

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Derby, River Derwent Path from the City Centre to Pride Park, 20th May

1. Boy and ram sculpture, (SF); 2 Canada geese (SF); 3. Wealth of wild flora in the heart of the city (WG); 4. Party in Bass’s Recreation Ground (WG); 5. Ground ivy (WG); 6. The River Derwent a little way south of the city centre (WG); 7. Oxford ragwort (SF); 8. Ramsons or wild garlic (SF); 9. White Campion (WG); 10. Comfrey (WG); 11. Common carder bee on comfrey (WG); 12. Spear thistle (SF); 13. Dame’s violet (SF); 14. and 15. Horse radish (WG);

16. Burdock (SF)


Photos by Stephen Ford (SF) and Bill Grange (WG)

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1. Whitethroat; 2. Small Heath Butterfly; 3. Common Blue Butterfly; 4. Dingy skipper;

5. Four-spotted Chaser; 6. Large Red Damselfly; 7. Pond Skaters, mating; 8. Three-spined Stickleback


Photos by Christine Maughan

Pleasley Pits, Nature Reserve, Derbyshire, 4th June

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Old Covert, Mugginton, Derbyshire, 4th June

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1. A scorpion fly; 2. A species of weevil, Phylobius argentatus; 3. A species of dung fly, Scathophaga inquinata; 4. A species of soldier beetle, Rhagonycha lignosa; 5. A species of bark louse; 6. Red-legged Shield Bug, Pentatoma rufipes - nymph


Photos by Steve Plant

 Mugginton Bottoms, Derbyshire, 4th June

1. Lousewort (WG); 2. Marsh Valerian (WG); 3. Common Frog , young (WG); 4. Bogbean (WG);

5. Marsh Violet (WG); 6. Alec Rapkin and…(SF); 7. A species of cranefly, Tipula luna (SP);

8. A species of spider, Philodromus aureolus (SP)




Photos by Bill Grange (BG), Steve Plant (SP) and Stephen Ford (SF)

Slaley Fields near Bonsall, Derbyshire, 4th July - 1

Slaley Fields near Bonsall, Derbyshire, 4th July - 2

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1. Slaley Fields and some of the party; 2. Slaley Fields with old leadmine shaft;

3. Common Rock Rose; 4. Spring Sandwort; 5. Bitter Cress; 6. Yellow Rattle;

7. Fragrant Orchid; 8. Fragrant Orchid; 9. Pyramidal Orchid; 10. Pyramidal Orchid;

11. Fly Orchid; 12. Bee Orchid, typical form; 13. Bee Orchid, chlorantha form;

14 Frog Orchid; 15. Fly Orchid; 16. Betony; 17. Hoary Plantain; 18. Common milkwort;

19. Brian Hobby; 20. Mountain Pansy, blue form.


Photos by Bill Grange

1. Meadow grasshopper, nymph; 2. Orchid Beetle; 3. Grass Moth;

4. Golden-bloomed Grey Long-horn beetle; 5. Slender-footed Robber Fly;

6. Common Blue Butterfly, mating; 7. Common Blue Butterfly, male;

8. Brown Argus Butterfly; 9. Dark Green Fritillary; 10. Large Skipper; 11. Small heath Butterfly (WG); 12. Ringlet Butterfly (W.G.)


Photos by Steve Plant and Bill Grange (WG)





Photos by Steve Plant (SP) and Bill Grange (WG)

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Toton Fields and Sidings, Derbyshire, 7th July

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1. Small Skipper; 2. Marbled White; 3. Small Tortoiseshell; 4. Ringlet;

5. & 6. Sulphur Pearl Moth; 7. Burnet Companion Moth; 8. Thick-thighed Beetle

(Oedemera nobilis); 9. Meadow grasshopper (Chorthippus parellus); 10. Tawny Long-horn Beetle (Paracorymbia fulva)


Photos by Steve Plant

Gang Mine near Wirksworth, Derbyshire, 14th July

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1. Alpine pennycress; 2. Spring sandwort; 3. Common Rock Rose; 4. Dyer’s Greenweed;

5. Goat’s Beard; 6. Mountain Pansy




Photos by Chris Perry;

Caldon Canal near Cheddleton, Staffordshire, 8th August - 1

Caldon Canal near Cheddleton, Staffordshire, 8th August - 2

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1. A tranquil stretch of the Caldon Canal; 2. Great Hairy willow-herb; 3. Amber Snail;

4. Wild Angelica with Soldier Beetles; 5. Wild Angelica; 6. A species of ground beetle; Pterostichus oblongopunctatus ; 7. Marsh Ragwort; 8. Speckled Wood Butterfly; 9. Common St. John’s Wort; 10. Wild Valerian; 11. Blue Hoverfly; Leucozona glaucia; 12. The Black Lion Inn at Consall Forge.


Photos by Bill Grange

1. An ichneumon species (not identified); 2 A species of hoverfly,Chrysogaster cemiteriorum;

3. A species of hunting wasp, Ectemnius continuus; 4. A species of hoverfly,

Meligramma guttatum; 5. A species of hoverfly, Syrphus ribesii; 6. A species of thick-headed Fly, Sicus ferrugineus; 7. Mint Leaf Beetle, Chrysolina herbacea; 8. A species of harvestman,

Leiobunum rotundum


Photos by Steve Plant

Fields and River Trent near Newton Solney, South Derbyshire, 29th August -1

Fields and River Trent near Newton Solney, South Derbyshire, 29th August -2

1. The party at one of the old hedges near Newton Solney; 2. Greater Celandine;

3. Great Bindweed; 4. White Bryony; 5. Scentless Mayweed; 6. Black Nightshade;

7. Common Field Speedwell; 8. Hereford Bull; 9. Lesser Bindweed; 10 22-spot Ladybird;

11. Wild raspberry; 12. Red-tailed Bumblebee; 14. Speckled Bush Cricket; 15. Confluence of the Rivers Trent and Dove; 16. Tansy; 17. Common Toadflax; 18. Gall on Maize, Ustilago maydis (originating from South America)  


Photos by Bill Grange

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1. Cereal Leaf Beetle; 2. A staphylinid beetle (to be identified);

3. Two-spot Ladybird; 4. Straw-dot Moth; 5. Brown Apple Moth; 6. Common Froghopper’

7. Nettle Ground Bug


Photos by Bill Grange

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Fungus Foray at Mapperley Wood, Derbyshire, 10th October

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1.Laccaria laccata; 2. Laccaria amethtystina; 3. Auricularia auricula-judae; 4. Mycena pura; 5. Leccinum scabrum; 6. Russula sardonia (two colour forms); 7. Amanita muscaria;

8. Lycoperdon perlatum; 9. Mycena sp.; 10. Amanita rubescens; 11. Scleroderma citrinum; 12. Lycoperdon pyriforme; 13. Coprinus micaceus; 14. Hypholoma fasiculare;

15. Calocera pallidospathulata

 

Photos by Steve Plant