Since September 2003 the author has been making a minimum intervention study of a square metre of land and the immediate surrounding area in his garden in the East Sussex Weald at Sedlescombe near Hastings, UK. By April 2016 over 1000 species of plants and animals (none of which has been deliberately introduced) had been recorded and the area featured on many TV and radio shows including Spring Watch, and The One Show.
Sunday, November 19, 2006
Earwig fungus
I saw what looked like a woolly caterpillar under a leaf of hogweed in Mice & Red today, but it turned out to be a dead earwig firmly stuck to the leaf blade by a fungus that had burst out of its body.
I have often seen fungus-infected hoverflies glued to grass blades, but this is the first time I have come across an earwig in this condition.
I have made some enquiries and hopefully will be able to identify it to species level in due course.
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