Showing posts with label Nature's Joy. Show all posts
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Thursday, October 16

Strange Jelly Discovered!!!

Tree Snot – the intricate and often overlooked wonders of woodland life.

Sometimes when you go for a nature walk you go with a specific subject matter in mind such as listening to birds in spring, to catch insects on a warm summer day, particularly hoverflies; or as autumn draws-in search for galls and leaf miners, before the trees shed their leaves and the first frosts appear. During such a ramble I always keep an eye out for anything unusual, a natural history curiosity, something either observed behaviourally, or on this occasion a new species to add to my records.

Picture of Tree snot created by the caddisfly Mottled sedge (Glyphotaelius pellucidus) eggs in a gelatinous mass on a hazel leaf


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