Quite an eventful day today – one of my morning jobs was to take three rubbles sacks of old bricks down the tip. I was expecting to find some big old venerable spiders amongst them, but there was nothing except for some real tiddlers, and these two Steatodas, a member of the false widow family. A peruse of my new spider field guide suggested Steatoda grossa for both individuals, although it also pointed out that a dark and obscurely marked grossa can look effectively identical to a dark and obscurely marked nobilis. The lighter (and slightly smaller) one seems to be a grossa though, so I am assuming they both are, and the spider people on Twitter tended to agree.
Later in the day, we went to Beacon Wood Country Park at Bean near Dartford, which is always good for mushrooms and other fungi at this time of year, particularly the colourful fly agarics. The place surpassed itself today though, with hundreds of fly agarics all over the place! Here are some of the best shots – starting with some fly agarics Amanita muscaria.
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