Monthly Archives: July 2014

Butterflies in a Wrenthorpe Garden

To many people, our garden at home in Wrenthorpe would appear to be an ideal candidate for a TV rescue programme.  The lawn is full of ‘weeds’ and there is a lack showy non-native plants elsewhere in the garden.  Indeed, … Continue reading

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Wrenthorpe Park wildflowers

Tuesday was a very hot morning for a walk around the balancing ponds in Wrenthorpe Park. Wildflowers sown in an empty flower bed gave us a fine display of poppies, cornflowers, bistort, yarrow and red leg.  Purple loosestrife, goat’s rue, … Continue reading

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Common lizard at Brockadale

I was at Brockadale today and came across a colony of common lizard basking in the warm sunshine. There were three adults and around 6+ baby lizards. I hadn’t realised they occurred here and never expected to find common lizard … Continue reading

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Moth trapping in Hemsworth

I  did some moth-trapping in Pembrokeshire last week and a poplar hawk (Laothoe populi) moth turned up in the trap. When I returned to Hemsworth, I found that the same species is on the wing in my garden. This is … Continue reading

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Wildflower walk at Brockadale

The car park area on Ley Lane was so full of beautiful meadow crane’s bill, small-flowered crane’s bill, white campion, dropwort and creeping cinquefoil that it took a while for the group to progress onto the track to the left … Continue reading

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Ruby-tailed wasps

The wall at the back of our dining room is a real sun trap and I often have a glance at it to see what insects are there basking on the hot bricks. Today I was rewarded with two or … Continue reading

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Vipers bugloss in Fitzwilliam

I thought members might be interested to know that there is lots of viper’s bugloss growing and flowering at Fitzwilliam, where the City used to be, behind the remaining row of houses. Rubble from the demolished houses is now overgrown … Continue reading

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