I joined a crack team of local Worcester bryologists yesterday morning for another moss survey, this time on the Shropshire-Worcestershire border and the very lush-looking Wyre Forest. May isn't generally known for its bryological activity, but there were still some very interesting acidic soil-loving mosses and liverworts to keep everyone happy- proven by the fact that we'd barely moved half a mile from the car park within the first two hours. I was still trying to figure out my pleurocarps from my acrocarps by the time scientific names had effortlessly been given to these little beauties...
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Calypogeia arguta (Notched Pouchwort) |
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Frullania dilatata (Dilated Scalewort) |
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Campylopus introflexus (Heath Star-moss) |
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Hypnum jutlandicum (Heath Plait-moss) |
I almost made the mistake of leaving the flat without a net, which would have been disastrous considering the quality of invertebrates on the wing. The underside of almost every deciduous leaf held a resting
Phyllonorycter...
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Phyllonorycter lautella |
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Phyllonorycter ulmifoliella |
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Schreckensteinia festaliella |
2 comments:
That's about par for the course for a bryology meet - one hour to leave the car park!
And I thought entomologists were bad!
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