MAY
Hoary Cress - Lepidium draba
Hairy Rock-cress - Arabis hirsuta
Rosy Garlic - Allium roseum
Yellow Vetch - Vicia lutea
Small Blue - Cupido minimus
Egg of Small Blue on Kidney Vetch.
JUNE
Sea Clover - Trifolium squamosum
Bastard Toadflax - Thesium humifusum
Down Shieldbug - Canthophorus impressus
A rare shieldbug associated with Bastard Toadflax
Small Elephant Hawkmoth - Deilephila porcellus
This is a species I never did catch in my moth trap. I cheated a bit here by fishing this one out of the Portland Bird Observatory's Trap for a photo shoot.
Wild Asparagus - Asparagus prostratus
Four-leaved Allseed - Polycarpon tetraphyllum
We actually walked right over these diminutive plants on the ridge at Ferrybridge whilst actively looking for them!
We'd given up and were walking back to the car park when we finally spotted them and once we'd seen one others were more obvious, making us wonder how we originally missed them.
Early Gentian - Gentianella anglica
Lackey Moth Caterpillar - Malacosoma neustria
Lulworth Skipper - Thymelicus acteon
Silver-studded Blue - Plebeius argus
4 comments:
Great to see the Asparagus looking so well, haven't seen her for well over a year now.
Sorry Seth. That is not she, it's a plant from the reintroduction on Portland. I'm hoping to see the original plant this year having only just found out the exact-ish location.
Well that's kinda confusing...the original 'she' had Cornish lad's pollen shaken all over and hence the seedlings all around. So far as I'm aware there's just that one patch (near the green box on Hamm Beach)in existence, in a Dorset context at least. Smart looking beastie regardless!
Some of her offspring have been re introduced to the Portland mainland on a clifftop site there are several plants doing quite well.
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