{"id":2736,"date":"2016-08-14T15:51:46","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T15:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=2736"},"modified":"2016-08-21T18:04:04","modified_gmt":"2016-08-21T18:04:04","slug":"half-moon-and-ashfields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=2736","title":{"rendered":"Half Moon and Ashfields"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2741\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2741\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2741 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/ashflora.jpg\" alt=\"flora\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/ashflora.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/ashflora-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/ashflora-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2741\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A leafy stemmed hawkweed, common valerian, ribbed melilot and hare\u2019s-foot clover.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Field meeting, 14 August 2016:<\/em>\u00a0The Ashfields, between Heath village and the River Calder (OS ref. SE 353 206), were settlement lagoons for\u00a0the pulverised fuel ash from Wakefield power station which was decommissioned in 1991. In the past thirty or forty years the process of natural succession has transformed\u00a0them from silty\u00a0open ground to orchid meadow and then from scrub to woodland.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2742\" src=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/longhorn.jpg\" alt=\"longhorn\" width=\"650\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/longhorn.jpg 650w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/longhorn-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/longhorn-418x300.jpg 418w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>Two longhorn beetles,\u00a0<em>Stranglia maculata<\/em>, rest\u00a0on umbels of hogweed and in a sheltered clearings and there are a few\u00a0speckled wood butterflies but the most common and persistent insect is\u00a0the mosquito.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2743\" src=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/halfmoon.jpg\" alt=\"halfmoon\" width=\"650\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/halfmoon.jpg 650w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/halfmoon-300x78.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/halfmoon-500x129.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Half Moon (SE 358 208) between Heath and Kirkthorpe is a cut-off meander of the Calder. A hundred or more whirligig beetles gyrate in a group on the surface close to the bank. Branched bur-reed grows amongst sweet-flag.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2744\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2744\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2744 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/reedsnail.jpg\" alt=\"snail\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2744\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amber snail, probably Succinea putris.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Amber snails graze\u00a0on the sweet-flag. These\u00a0snails are unable to fully retract into their shells. Their\u00a0lower tentacles are much reduced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Field meeting, 14 August 2016:\u00a0The Ashfields, between Heath village and the River Calder (OS ref. SE 353 206), were settlement lagoons for\u00a0the pulverised fuel ash from Wakefield power station which was decommissioned in 1991. 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