royk13

By royk13

A walk in the woods

Can you smell onioins?

The ramsens are in their full glory at present.
1st extra: I liked this fern with a single bluebell just addidng a dash of blue.

2nd extra: The bracket fungus on a fallen log is called Dryad's saddle, which I find very appealing, Dryad being a wood nymph.

3rd extra: This is an Ashy mining bee, which has dug the tunnel in the foreground.  The tunnel typically extends nine to twelve inches underground and has a number of horizontal chambers leading off it.  Each chamber contains one egg, which the bee will provision with pollen and nectar before sealing the main entrance.  It will then die in early June.  The eggs will hatch, the larvae feed on the stores and then pupate.  They will remain underground as pupae until the following spring then emerge and do it all again.  Not much of a life you might think, but they are important pollinators of tree blossom.

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