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A Midsummer Night's Gleam

Nick Wilson-Smith June 23, 2021

“A few things began to catch my eye. The first being an entirely unexpected flittering and wavering of a phenomenal looking butterfly, and although they were nectaring around the flowering thistles, they were really keeping up with the fire-coloured trend of the surrounding area.”

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Tags odonata, wildflowers, midsummer, flora, meadows, grassland, butterflies, naturediary, blog
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Wondrous Waxcaps

Nick Wilson-Smith November 27, 2020

“Many of us will instantaneously associate the autumn months with colour, and most of the time this is referring to the ever changing leaf shades as the green pigments of chlorophyll production begin to wane. Alternatively, this time of year also brings a somewhat rarer myriad of tints and tones, in the form of a very unique genus of fungi - Hygrocybe, also known as waxcaps.”

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Tags waxcaps, fungi, hygrocybe, spindles, autumn, grassland, naturediary, blog
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