My Flora and Fauna Friday post this week is the Fly Agaric (Amanita muscaria) fungi. An alternative common English name is Fly Amanita.
The reason for fly in the common English name is because the fungi is traditionally used for catching flies.
The Fly Agaric is the classic red toadstool popular with illustrators of children’s books. This specimen was photographed on Bickerton Hill in southern Cheshire, England in the autumn.
A group of four Fly Agaric fungi on Bickerton Hill in southern Cheshire, England.
This is my day 17 contribution to Becky’s October Squares challenge on the theme of Kind.
This is my contribution to the Friendly Friday Challenge: Close Examination.
Hooks on a Lesser Burdock seed head. Where the inventor of Velcro got the idea.
Detail of the cap of a Fly Agaric fungi. The classic red Toadstool so popular with the illustrators of children’s books.
This is my contribution to the Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge: What Is It?
I had a few ideas for the challenge and quickly settled on one although I can’t really explain why I picked an autumn subject in spring.
This one’s quite easy.
A Fly Agaric fungi growing on Bickerton Hill in southern Cheshire.
The Fly Agaric fungi growing amongst Silver Birch trees on Bickerton Hill.
This is my day three contribution to Becky’s April Squares: Top photo challenge.
Toadstool is simply a nickname for fungi that is often poisonous or at least inedible.
A Fly Agaric fungi cap photographed from above at Bickerton Hill, Cheshire.
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Macro prompt was rather well timed. I have spent part of the winter digitising my slide archives that include hundreds of macro images.
A Ruby-tailed Wasp. Given that the ruby red tail is usually covered by the wings a more appropriate name would be an Emerald-bodied Wasp.
Fly Agaric fungi cap detail.
A portrait of a Common Quaker Moth.
Spines on a Teasel seed head in the autumn.
This is my contribution to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Autumn Scenes.
I had a couple of ideas for the challenge before deciding to concentrate on one area, Bickerton Hill in Cheshire, England.
A view from the top of Bickerton Hill looking down onto some woodland below.
Fly Agaric fungi growing amongst some Silver Birch trees on top of the hill.
Autumn colour on the side of a section of the hill.
Fallen Horse Chestnuts (or conkers to some British school children) on the ground under a Horse Chestnut tree at the bottom of the hill.
