CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

Probably the best weather that I can ever remember for an Easter Sunday. We took a walk along the south side of the river Wear, between Wol...

Slime moulds are interesting organisms but you couldn't really describe them as being beautiful (one of the commonest bears the n...

 This is the slime mould (myxomycete) Fuligo septica var. flava , that we found on a rotting log at Smardale Gill National Nature Reserve ...

The current spell of mild wet weather has provided perfect conditions for this fine specimen of Suillus bovinus, a close relative of slippe...

These spectacular examples of the slime mould Reticularia lycoperdon are currently to be seen on the trunks of an alder, in the Long Alder ...