Friday 28 June 2013

Seeing the Changes 595

Lots happening around the Bynea cycle path with the flowering of White melilot (Melilotus alba). I also noted a Common green shield bug (Palomina prasina) and active Black garden ants (Lasius niger). A cyanide-impregnated Six-spot burnet moth (Zygaena filipendulae) refueled at a Creeping thistle. Poison-incorporating larvae were also active with Depressaria daucella feasting in its hammock on Hemlock and Cinnabar moth munching Ragwort.

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