I found this magic mushroom, the Fly Agaric, in my garden recently. It is not a common species locally. The photograph was published in our local newspaper the Stourport News as part of a photography group.

The first pumpkin season for our first grandson.

Just found the first farm record of Western Conifer Seed Bug. This North American species accidentally introduced into Italy has been spreading across Europe and into Britain. Worcestershire's first record was in 2011.

The scorching hot summer has helped the germination of wool aliens on the farm. These are seeds of plants imported on wool for the carpet industry and the waste wool spread onto the land as fertilizer, called shoddy. The two shown have origins in the Americas. Buffalo-bur, Solanum rostratum, and Thorn-apple, Datura stramonium respectively.

The leaf mines I found in Honeysuckle this week have been confirmed as being caused by the larvae of the small gall-midge fly, Chromatomyia alprilina.

This Convolvulus Hawk-moth arrived from the continent this week. We plant Nicotiana, or Tobacco plants to attract the migrant species. Its long probiscus can reach the nectar at the bottom of the long flowers. It is the fourth consecutive year the species has been recorded here.

I was pleased, and lucky, to spot this finely worked neolithic flint arrowhead among the continental onion harvest debris.

Exciting to find this Metalampra italica moth amongst the catch this morning. It is possibly the first county record for the species for Worcestershire, although it has been recorded in neighbouring counties.