I am sort of making a series of this moorland flowers thing! I really enjoyed seeing the Yellow Rattle. As usual, any help appreciated.
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| Is this new Heather growth or Crowberry? |
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| Looking down from the ‘Man’s Head’ |
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| Beautiful Hay Meadow |
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| No Idea |
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| Goldenrod? |
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| Yellow Rattle |
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| Is this Mouse Ear sp.? |
Unfortunately there is no contact from the Blog to any links except the fungi blog!
Please rectify.
A really nice plant walk today. I really enjoyed seeing my first Orchid. Just so it is clear, on the captions I have added Rishworth to them
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| Common Mallow, Rishworth |
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| Red Campion, Rishworth |
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| Harebells, Rishworth – Never seen these before |
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| Common Green Grasshopper, Rishworth |
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| Tormentil and Creeping Cinquefoil, Rishworth |
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| Creeping Cinquefoil leaves, Rishworth |
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| A different Harebell plant, Rishworth |
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| Common Spotted Orchid, Rishworth |
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| ??? |
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| Can’t put my finger on this. It has nettle-like leaves |
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| Confused on this aswell |
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| The mystery plant with nettle leaves again |
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| Birds Foot Trefoil on the slope where the Burnet moths live |
Went for a walk today. Found a few Purple Toadflax and some interesting IDs. The above video is what I think is Common Toadflax at the start of the video.
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| The mystery Toadflax plant |
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| Purple Toadflax Flowers |
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| Purple Toadflax Leaves |
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| A couple of the Purple Toadflax plants |
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| The Purple Toadflax plants again with a bit more leaf view |
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| All plants and where they are growing |
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| Don’t know this one |
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| All of the Don’t Know plants |
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| A self-seeded wildflower bit in Heathfield School car park |
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| Bush Vetch in the car park |
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| Red & White Clover in the car park |
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| Spear Thistle |
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| Spear Thistle |
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| Hedge Woundwort |
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| Hedge Woundwort as above just less zoom |
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| Hedge Woundwort growing through the Rosebay Willowherb |
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| What is This? |
The hoverfly that I had in a recent post up for ID (the picture captioned ‘ID Hoverfly on Foxglove) I have identified it as Pellucid Fly, looking at the NBN atlas they do not seem to common.
I’ve only seen these twice. Spotting them in my water-butt I told my partner Annie without giving the common name, as I think it’s a bit pejorative. (Rat-tailed Maggots.)
She got this video, risking dropping her phone in the water. You can see their intestine through their skin. We can’t work out if they’re feeding on floating vegetable matter or drowned insects.
She was delighted with them as I thought she would be, and found out they are the larvae of a kind of hoverfly – news to me.
Her suggested new name for them is Chevron-larvae.
