It may be autumn but I can still add some new insects to the year list. This morning’s sighting was a soldier fly, the Twin-spot Centurion (Sargus bipunctatus).

Other species photographed include the European Garden Spider (Araneus diadematus), which seems to be very abundant right now, and another Parent Bug (Elasmucha grisea), this one on a buckthorn leaf.

After waiting patiently at a likely patch of flowering ivy, I was rewarded finally with some images of Ivy Bee (Colletes hederae) actually on ivy flowers, rather than just returning to their nests.

On a Common Beech (Fagus sylvatica) tree I found the erinea formed by the Beech Erineum Mite (Aceria nervisequa), the hairy galls caused by a gall midge, the Hairy Beech Gall Midge (Hartigiola annulipes) and the leaf mine of the larva of the Ilex Leaf-miner (Phyllonorycter messaniella) moth. An oak leaf showed the larval leaf mine of a Tischeria sp. moth, either the Small Oak Blotch-miner (T. dodonaea) or the very similar Oak Blotch-miner (T. ekebladella).

Returning to the area of the old sheep enclosure I came across some agaric mushrooms, possibly Mica Cap (Coprinellus micaceus).

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