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dpack
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Mistress Rose
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Posted: Sun Aug 04, 19 7:09 am Post subject: |
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I certainly noticed it as a particularly leafy sort of city with lots of open green areas.
Sadly round here we have a lot of people that have come out from towns and seem to like 'tidy' which means grass cut to within an inch or its life. I am glad to report that some thyme, a small member of the geranium family, and squinanceywort have got a foothold on the worst affected area, although I noticed that they have managed to cut the harebells which were at the top of a bank again. All that seems to be surviving there is grass and it is being invaded by ivy.
I think I saw a painted lady in the garden yesterday, and we had a couple of blues, probably holly. If the buddleia coincides with the painted ladies, we may well have the spectacular site of the whole lot lifting off if disturbed. Only happened once, and only for a few days. Overall, I think our butterfly numbers are holding up pretty well, but have mainly been in the wood itself, so only seen them on the way in and out. |
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gz
Joined: 23 Jan 2009 Posts: 8617 Location: Ayrshire, Scotland
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 45520 Location: yes
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buzzy
Joined: 04 Jan 2011 Posts: 3708 Location: In a small wood on the edge of the Huntingdonshire Wolds
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15600
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 45520 Location: yes
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dpack
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Posted: Mon Aug 05, 19 6:38 pm Post subject: |
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is the two colour thing similar to the peppermoth being pale in a clean place and grime coloured in coal burning towns?
ie are the grey ones an adaptation to the industrial revolution?
if that was the case a green one living next to soot blackened gritstone in the 1960's seems odd.
i looked but did not find a geographic study of which lives where without delving into "scholar" as a search engine.
todays news from the hedge is that the charmingly named flower bugs are in there and they still drink body fluids through a straw, if you notice them they brush or blow off easily, leave em be for a short while they latch on. itchy bites.
and just for fun , shhhh dont tell tt yet, but i am trying to work out which false widow spp has had babies in the crevices of the outside of the shed, i thought i saw one a while back and the spiderlings i have seen a few of since had that look to them as well
another crop of sparrows to add to the survivors of earlier clutches, even with cats and a few other predators ( diverse environment )they seem to be doing well for numbers. how many fit ones go into winter does seem to make a huge difference the next year.
anecdote but not data, from a low count a decade ago they seem to be making a small but steady recovery , at least within this group territory .
thinking of spiders i have not seen several of the labyrinth ones so i guess they expired before the little ones have hatched, which might be a kindness for them.
as i like to try to get the know the beasties i did have a shared moment eye to eyes with one of them, cold, it did not like me but perhaps thought i was too big to capture, fierce and cold.
ace wee thing |
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buzzy
Joined: 04 Jan 2011 Posts: 3708 Location: In a small wood on the edge of the Huntingdonshire Wolds
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dpack
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Mistress Rose
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Mistress Rose
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dpack
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Mistress Rose
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dpack
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