Dark Bush-CricketGreat Green Bush-CricketGreen GrasshopperGreen Mountain GrasshopperStone Grasshopper
Dragonflies
Golden-Ringed DragonflyMale Common Darter
Bees and Wasps
Halictus scabiosae mining beeSaxon Wasp (Dolichovespula saxonica)Brown-Banded Carder Bee, Bombus pascuorum, with Giant Forest Ant, CamponotusNest of Paper Wasp, Polistes
Other insects
Orange-backed Tachinid FlyHoverfly on YarrowMediterranean Milkweed Bug
Squinancywort, AsperulaCreeping BellflowerFringed PinkCow-wheat, a hemiparasiteAlpine ButterburPurple Broomrape, parasitic on YarrowBladder CampionHarebellsYellow Rattle, parasitic on grassesClary Sage, in an alpine meadowSticky Clary (Salvia glutinosa), Val SuganaGrassy StitchwortPurple Lettuce, Prenanthes purpureaBaneberry, Actaea spicataGreater Knapweed Alpine AdenostylesHairy AlpenroseBetony-leaved RampionGoat’s Beard, Aruncus vulgarisWild Columbine, AquilegiaHoary PlantainNorthern WolfsbaneMonkshood, WolfsbaneWillow GentianSpotted GentianGrass of ParnassusYellow Mountain SaxifrageHerb-ParisViper’s BuglossDotted LoosestrifeSweet CicelyWild Angelica Spiny RestharrowLingon or CowberryRed ElderberryWatermelon Berry, StreptopusWayfaring TreeWhitebeamServiceberry, AmelanchierLarge-flowered Self-healDaisy FleabaneGoldenrodWhitish HawkweedSticky Thistle, CirsiumGlobe Thistle, EchinopsButterwort, insectivorousMountain Avens in fruit Field Mouse-ear at 2200 metres ChicoryYellow WoundwortDevil’s-bit ScabiousField PansyRosebay WillowherbAlpine BistortWild BasilThyme Small balsamCowslip in fruitLadies Bedstraw Raspberry Wild StrawberryMeadow Cranesbill Great Mullein in a mountain meadow
Mosses and Ferns
Haircap Moss, PolytrichumPolypody FernWall Rue Spleenwort, Asplenium
Fungi
Russula, a BrittlegillDyer’s MazegillLactarius, a Milkcap, on a wooded hillsideSuillus grevillei, Larch Bolete
Lichens
Dog Lichen, Peltigera caninaParmelia-type leafy lichensCladonia lichen, large patch on tree stumpCladonia cf fimbriata, Cup LichenRhizocarpon geographicum on boulderUmbilicaria cylindrica on boulderEvernia cf prunastri, Usnea cf filipendula (beard lichen)Usnea florida, Flowery Beard Lichen
Other animals
Common Wall Lizard
Black RedstartRoman Snail
Kestrel in the mountains
A Human Landscape
Trees cut in strips downslope, not clear-felledLocal-scale commercial forestryFlowery Meadow at 2200 metres
The English seem unemotional … except for their passion for nature
