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<\/p>\n Young Parasol Mushroom <\/p>\n So far it looks like being a relatively good year for the local fungi. Unfortunately one of the drawbacks with living in a city is that there\u2019s far too many people collecting fungi from every park or patch of green space. If they just kept to edible species it wouldn\u2019t be too bad but instead they pick everything, sort them out in the car park and bin the 90% that shouldn\u2019t be eaten. If any \u201cforagers\u201d come across this post please note the damage you\u2019re doing.<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n I was hoping to post a few photo\u2019s of some other fungi but the foragers beat me to them. <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Back up north and its grim. It\u2019s also really noticeable how quickly winter is approaching. Another 3 weeks and we\u2019ll be back to walking around in the darkness. Great to see the Garden Orb spiders are still busy When the female has mated, her Read More …<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4],"tags":[364,363,421,91],"class_list":["post-1223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fungi","category-insects","tag-fairy-inkcap","tag-garden-orb-spider","tag-october","tag-parasol-mushroom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1224,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions\/1224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Garden](\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/P1010628.jpg\" "\\"Garden")
<\/a>When the female has mated, her body becomes swollen with eggs. She builds a silken egg sac in which to lay the eggs and dedicates the rest of her life to protecting them. Unable to leave the eggs to hunt and feed, she dies in late autumn before her spiderlings hatch out in May of the following year<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n \n <\/p>\n\n
Parasol Mushroom at a slightly more advanced stage <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n
A small section of one of several rings of Parasols <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n
Fairy Inkcaps <\/p>\n\n
Not too sure about the identification of this particular bracket however its a spectacular sight on an old tree stump in the gardens of the Old Parsonage. I\u2019ll have to another look next time I\u2019m down there.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"