Explore the diverse flora and fauna on the Downs from season to season through personal observations and photographs

Thursday, 26 Feb 2026

tube-tailed thrips

A windy day so I kept mainly within the woodland and continued with my recent tactic of searching under loose bark on rotting trunks and branches. Very obvious on the outer surface of the bark on one rotting Silver Birch bough was the fungus Birch Woodwart (Jackrogersella multiformis). Under bark that had spalled off a […]