Saturday, 16 June 2012

Not only Ducks!

The unseasonal wet and cold weather doesn't just appeal to our feathered friends. All around the Loughor estuary, colonies of the cyanobacteria Nostoc are thriving as never before! An appropriately-named Drinker moth (Philudoria potatoria) larva seemed to be doing well in the wet at Penclacwydd.

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