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.
Enormous amounts of continuous rain but the bedraggled Sea aster (Aster tripolium) was in flower in Bynea. A soaked Bumble bee in that location was symptomatic of the difficulties experienced by insects this year. Later in Loughor, there was at least a visit by a Canary-shouldered thorn (Ennomos alniaria) moth.
The Bloody-nosed beetle ( Timarcha tenebricosa ) doesn't get into fights. The red fluid it exudes, when handled, is produced to deter p...
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