No, I have a pic of them ...before and after. I wondered for a start if it was the infrared that killed them, I didn't know they were there for a start but it hasn't killed other insects (that I know of). The programme was BBC one which I wasn't really watching, not sure which programme!
before
After, the next morning
closer
Update #9 1st October
update #9 3rd Oct.
more mature #23
#24 must have been tasty, it's a skull
#25 another puff ball
#26 could be a different puff ball not sure
Wallaby,
Very, very weird the fate of these house flies!
The fuschia is a beauty!
The green things on long stems are the young seed (or rather spore ?) boxes of a moss, the photo is taken in macro mode. Perhaps I should mention that in the future because it can be misleading. Since I have a camera with macro mode possibilities, a whole new fascinating world has opened for me. Like when I photographed that tiny mushroom I hadn't noticed with the bare eye that there were wooly bugs on it, only after I downloaded the picture.
As I have such a tiny garden I am enlarging it in going into macro.
Everything seems to be so huge and vast seen from the perspective of an insect.
Nr 16 looks like an old Boletus edulis
#27 going back to 6th September
nr 26, the shape is a little too irregular for a puff ball, It could be a kind of a bovista (don't know its English name).
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The flies weren't ordinary house flies, there was a lot of different types this year and they were quite large, horses across the road may have attracted many. It does seem horrible though! The fuchsia is Deep Purple.
#16 in the pic was actually new then, it collapsed relatively quickly compared to #9
#16 collapsing
#28
I thought it wasn't quite puff ball shaped (#26). The last one almost glowed, it was difficult to capture.
#29 two different, one on right has a pink stem
#30 a whole family
#31 is probably the prettiest of the lot
#32
#33
#34
#35
#36
#37 last for now..
Wow Wallaby, I'm out of breath! That will certainly keep me busy for a while trying to ID!.
I also started a thread in Dave's garden forum trying to get a special forum for mushrooms, fungi, lichens, mosses and the like.
Hope this link works:
http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/669175/
bonitin, have you got your breath back yet?
I have more.....
#38 this funny livery thing is on old wood logs
#39 these are growing between the logs
#39 underneath
#40 sat on top of an old cut log
#40 group, more correctly on a tree stump
#41
#42 looks like an upside down #38
#43
#43 base, the stem rises from a white conical shape
#44, this one is tiny, less than 1/2" across. Notice the purple and blue in the middle.
#45. A family of parasols on an old log.
Yes I'm back! Puff...
Amazing what a wealth of species you have!
Nr 29, (the one on the right) seems to be a Boletus chrysenteron
Nr30 could be Boletus parasiticus
Pretty nr 31 is the Boletus versicolor
I have to go slow because I have no routine in ID
Nr. 33: Amanita citrina var alba.
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nr.34: possibly: Boletus luridus var.luridus
nr.:35: Paxillus involutus
nr.38: looks like a family member of Auricularia auricula-judae (Jew's Ear)
Nr.45 :The lovely group of parasols seems to be: Cystolepiota seminuda (C.sistrata)
