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

Monday, 16 Feb 2026

A good walk largely uninterrupted by photo opportunities. Only once did the cameras come out of my shoulder bag, at an oak stump where I noticed some flying insects landing briefly on the flat sawn surface of the stump. The resultant not too great images show a possible non-biting midge, perhaps a Buzzer Midge (Chironomus plumosus). One of the posted images shows a 1.5 mm springtail just above the midge.

On the same stump there was a cluster of mushrooms that I have tentatively identified as Bitter Oysterling (Panellus stipticus).

 

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