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WHITLINGHAM: A couple of visits to Trowse

September 2021

A couple of brief visits to Trowse Meadow and the burial ground, a rather negelected bit of my patch of late, turned up a few interesting things. On my first visit I noticed a new patch plant, Balm, whilst some fibrecaps were probably (but not confirmed as) Deadly Fibrecap (Inocybe erubescens). There were a couple of nice galls on some roses too.




On the next visit I looked for and found a couple of species I'd seen elsewhere recently, Dogwood aphid and Spindle scale insect, and photographed some pondskaters that I have frustratingly failed to identify.