Gin advent calendars are ยฃ60.00 in Sainsburys, so I made my own.
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Moira O'Donnell ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ
@NatureLark
Choral singing, botany, butterflies, birds, wee beasties, crochet, cups of tea, G&T. Ooh look, there's a thing .... ๐ค
#WildflowerHour
- Hands up if you love Viper's Bugloss. ๐โโ๏ธ
- Absolutely humongous patch of Fodder Vetch (aka Hairy Vetch), Vicia villosa, on Mitchham Common. plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9h.โฆ
- Husband (shouting through from living room): Are you making dinner? Me (shouting back): Yes. Huband: You're not outside trying to photograph snowflakes are you? Me: No, of course not.
- This is my back door, but this is not my cat.
00:00 - I stopped for this view on the way to the chip shop this evening. Have we reached peak Hawthorn yet?
- This is one of the reasons we need grasses. Insects need plants that support all stages of their life cycles, not just ones that provide them with nectar and pollen. #WildWebsWednesday dbif.brc.ac.uk/hostsresults.aโฆ
- Cinnabar Moth Caterpillars on Ragwort for #WildWebsWednesday. ๐ค๐งก๐ (Polite note to anyone who may feel the need to comment negatively - please do not assume that there are things about Ragwort that I am unaware of and need to be told, or tell me to pull it out. Thank you.)
- A Beech leaf with a mine containing a caterpillar of the Stigmella tityrella moth. It has bacteria on its body which manipulate the leaf tissue to produce cytokinin, thus maintaining a "green island" of photosynthetic tissue in which it can feed in the autumn. #WildWebsWednesday
- Parrot Waxcaps, baby. ๐ค St Peter's churchyard, Tandridge.
- A portal of light on my path today.
- I am always quite enchanted by the central red floret of Wild Carrot flower heads. โค
