Well, as the amount of wildflowers out there diminishes as autumn prepares to drape its rust and gold wings over the land, there has nonetheless been some hot days that have brought pollinators out to coralberry, marigold and coreopsis at work and at the park.
Butterflies have been in desperately short supply this summer, and now that the meadow browns, ringlet and gatekeepers there is very little out there. My own buddleia has had the odd peacock dropping in, but small tortoiseshell and comma have been virtually non-existent where I have been pounding the tracks or having a gentle walk.
I hope my readers have had better luck. Certainly some local folk here have found silver washed fritillaries in town, which is unheard of before.
Of course, I haven't seen them.
Si
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All insects seem to be in desperate trouble these days. At one time if you went for a drive you came back with dead flies all over the screen. If you were on the bike you needed to keep your mouth shut. When you wore a yellow T-shirt you came in covered in greenfly. Wasps ruined every picnic and warm days in early August were plagued with thunderflies.
ReplyDeleteI know. It is very worrying.
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