The Wildeep Daily

Daily images created by Ben Mitchell - wild-e-eep.blogspot.co.uk

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Puccinia albescens, a rust fungus, growing all over these townhall clock plants.

All photos from April.

iNaturalist observation 348560264.

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An alderfly sitting on the fence.

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Tongue and Groove #FencepostOfTheWeek

Not sure that's how you're supposed to do it but whatever works...

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Auspicious signs in Inverary!

They even left the reverse blank for your personal message… ^_^

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Buff-tip moth from Achnabreac near Lochgilphead yesterday.

A close look at some of the different scale/hair shapes contributing to its fancy get-up.

iNaturalist observation 364195519

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No butterfly; only lichen! ^_^

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So many bones. A thick layer of detritus from the bottom of a barn owl nest box.

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A splendid male adder, ready for action on the 23rd April. This year I missed all the action :'(

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Found this enchanting little ruin by the Stowhall Burn above Acharossan. A corn drying kiln, perhaps.

A 3d scan of the same. I think I found the flue.

Below is a link to a fleshed-out diagram of a scottish corn drying kiln:

Corn Drying Kilns - Historylinks Archive

A series of illustrations and descriptions of corn drying kilns in Sutherland and Iona and four colo

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Smooth, wiggly algae going with the flow. If I look at them under a microscope, I'm sure they'll be even flowier and wigglier, right?

No: it's mostly weirdly hinged rectangles.

There are a few normal looking cylindrical algal filaments in there as well.

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Fishbone lichen enjoying a bit of a breeze.

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I stumbled across this small cottage on a trackless wander through a dense local conifer plantation. The inhabitant - a woodsman, perhaps? - seems to have planted up the front garden with redwood trees. A bold choice for your herbaceous borders if ever there was one.

I took these photos in 2010 and never did manage to find my way back there.

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A couple of jaunty sea-side lichens having a tussle. I think I've got Xanothoria aureola in yellow and Anaptychia runcinata in brown (it goes a lovely avocado green colour when well hydrated.)

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A wonderful little common rough woodlouse - Porcellio scaber.

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Some lovely, leathery textures on this very fresh cabbage white chrysalis. <3

(from last August)

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I've been seeking out a delicate little lichen called Arctomia - it has beautiful deep red apothecia and is one of the many denizens of lush mini-jungles that form in the canopy of liverwort mats on tree trunks in danker woodlands in these parts.

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Always check your stumps ^_^

I think these slime moulds are Metatrichia floriformis, but the reddish lid-shaped ornaments are not normal.

iNaturalist observation 345232619