The harvestman only currently known as Leiobunum Species A is shrouded in mystery because despite it having been discovered in the UK in 2009 nobody seems to know where it it has come from or what it's native range is. To this day it remains unnamed.
It has now reached Norfolk after being discovered near Stalham very recently and my friend and Norfolk Harvestman Recorder Vanna just happened to have a rather splendid male in a box in her kitchen! It has to be said they are a really big and impressive harvestman with a metallic blue/green colouration with the underside pale orange and impossibly long legs.
Vanna's husband Jeremy also had a new fungus for me to look at - the tiny orange stalked discs of Stilbella fimetaria growing on Muntjac dung.
And all over a nice cup of tea!
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