This blog may help people explore some of the 'hidden' issues involved in certain media treatments of environmental and scientific issues. Using personal digital images, it's also intended to emphasise seasonal (and other) changes in natural history of the Swansea (South Wales) area. The material should help participants in field-based modules and people generally interested in the natural world. The views are wholly those of the author.
Monday 9 August 2010
Seeing the Changes 322
Went to Rest Bay near Porthcawl. There was lots of Greater burdock (Arctium lappa), Betany (Stachys officinalis), Harebell (Campanula rotundifolia), Tansy (Tanacetum vulgare) and Greater knapweed (Centaurea scabiosa) in flower. The last-mentioned was being visited by Six-spot burnet moths (Zygaena filipendulae). On the beach, there was what was claimed to be a coral but looks more like worm tubes to me. Stange rafts of what appeared to be Collembola were floating on the rockpool surfaces.
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That 'coral' is extraordinary. I wonder if it is always there or a feature of weather conditions this summer...
I think it's always there (and the inter-tidal zone is not really a -place to find coral). It's quite hard (although one can damage the surface easily). I think it looks like collections of the tubes of Sabellid ('Peacock') worms. It is very strange.
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