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.
-

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Planes and Trains and Old Folk

My trip home from Honolulu to Swansea simply cemented how difficult travel has now been made for the elderly (especially if they have a mobi...

  • Stepping On the Gas?
      It should hardly be called a study. A  Which comparison looked at levels of nitrogen dioxide and small particulates (PM 2.5s) in 5  Londo...
  • Gridlock in European Cities
      Europe has a city congestion problem. In 2023, London was the most gridlocked location, closely followed by Paris and Dublin. In that year...
  • Charging Electric Vehicles (For Road Use)
    It's necessary, where possible, to replace diesel and petrol-fueled vehicles by electrical equivalents. Electric vehicles (EVs) don...