Monday 10 Oct 2022 is an Eco-Explorers (for families) evening (4pm-5.30pm), and I went to explore Settle Churchyard ready for our Meeting on 1 Oct (after the 1st of the month walk,) and on Sat 8th Oct. - then we go to visit on the 10th. It is next to the railway embackment.
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| Green Shield-bug |
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| Something eating Box |
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| A distinctive type of mushroom (Agaricus) bu the entrance path |
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| Red Admiral on the wall |
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| The holly berries look good now - October - but will probably have been eaten by the birds by Christmas |
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| A leaf miner on Horse-Chestnut - Cameraria ohridella |
Ah -
later attend an introduction to the new Yorkshire Moths website - (on 8 Dec) and see there is no record in the Settle hectad for this. I can send in my record!!! - not even at Malham Tarn - but then I think there are almost no horse-chestnut trees there.
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| fell a bit guilty now removing the roof off this larva's house. |
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| Harlequin ladybird - so they have arrived up here! |
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| Harlequin ladybird juvenile- so they have arrived up here! |
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| Photographed these Lawyers Wigs on 8 Oct |
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See how they have curled up by the 10th.
The children are collecting creepy crawlies in the box |
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| Later we spread out our finds |
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| Some sort of cultivated Rubus |
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| Some sort of cultivated Rubus |
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| Close up of Lichen on the paving stone surface of the wall |
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| Well we can study the fruit of horse-chestnut with the children |
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| I did have plans to measure the diameter of some of the lichens.. |
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