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Life On An Oxfordshire Lawn: Comma butterfly Polygonia c-album
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Life On An Oxfordshire Lawn. An amateur works out what lives in his garden. Wednesday, January 6, 2010. Comma butterfly Polygonia c-album. I am an amateur naturalist trying to learn something about everything living in my garden. January is seeing heavy snow falls in the UK and as I write there is more than a foot of snow in my garden. To remind us of those balmy summer afternoons during these dark winter days therefore, a picture of a butterfly on the buddleia bush. In the early 19th century Commas were...
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Life On An Oxfordshire Lawn: A Mock Orange Tree - Philadelphus coronarius
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Life On An Oxfordshire Lawn. An amateur works out what lives in his garden. Friday, June 10, 2011. A Mock Orange Tree - Philadelphus coronarius. I am an amateur naturalist trying to learn something about everything living in my garden. Photos 1 and 2, taken a few days ago, shows the Mock Orange ( Philadelphus. Bush that grows at the back of my garden. It is a large plant (maybe 4m x 4m) and a fabulous site in early summer. And yes, it smells as gorgeous as it looks! And 'true' Orange (genus Citus. Firstl...
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Life On An Oxfordshire Lawn: May 2011
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Life On An Oxfordshire Lawn. An amateur works out what lives in his garden. Tuesday, May 31, 2011. A long legged Dolichopus fly. I am an amateur naturalist trying to discover everything living in my garden. For some time I have hankered after a garden pond (there are few things better for encouraging wildlife into one's garden). On a whim, I recently took the plunge (sorry, terrible pun! Photo 1 shows two flies sunning themselves at the water's edge. There were several dozen around the pond. I found in m...
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Life On An Oxfordshire Lawn: Two Prominent Moths
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Life On An Oxfordshire Lawn. An amateur works out what lives in his garden. Friday, May 7, 2010. I am an amateur naturalist trying to identify everything living in my garden. Some time ago I blogged the moth trap I was constructing. My first design was only partially successful (most of my catch were escaping! And since then my designs have undergo a number of iterations to finally arrive at The Walloon Super Trap. You see before you in photo 1! And the second as a Coxcomb Prominent ( Ptilodon capucina.
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Life On An Oxfordshire Lawn: Cat's Ear Hypochaeris radicata
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Life On An Oxfordshire Lawn. An amateur works out what lives in his garden. Saturday, October 8, 2011. Cat's Ear Hypochaeris radicata. I am an amateur naturalist trying to discover everything living in my garden. The pretty flower in photo 1 is Cat’s Ear - a common weed in my garden. There are a number of superficially similar British yellow-flowered weeds including the Hawkbits, Sow thistles and the Hawksbeards I blogged here. And not the rather similar Smooth Cat’s Ear ( H. glabra. By contrast, for lon...
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Life On An Oxfordshire Lawn: Glistening Inkcap Mushroom Coprinellus micaceus
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Life On An Oxfordshire Lawn. An amateur works out what lives in his garden. Monday, May 12, 2008. Glistening Inkcap Mushroom Coprinellus micaceus. I am an amateur naturalist trying to identify everything living in my garden. After a goodly absence (apologies dear readers) it's time to return to the task of cataloguing my garden's life. The first piece of news is that sadly I've had to remove (to my compost bin) a good proportion of the ivy I blogged here. Except it turns out the books are wrong! More spe...
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Life On An Oxfordshire Lawn: A Grey Squirrel Sciurus carolinensis
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Life On An Oxfordshire Lawn. An amateur works out what lives in his garden. Thursday, June 2, 2011. A Grey Squirrel Sciurus carolinensis. I am an amateur naturalist trying to learn something about everything living in my garden. Photo 1 (strictly I took this particular photo in a local park) shows a sporadic visitor to my garden, and my third mammal, the Grey Squirrel (. To learn something about them I have been reading. By Jessica Holm (Whittet Books). Together with the Red (. For the Reds,. To end, the...
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Life On An Oxfordshire Lawn: Smooth Hawks-beard Crepis capillaris
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Life On An Oxfordshire Lawn. An amateur works out what lives in his garden. Wednesday, October 13, 2010. Smooth Hawks-beard Crepis capillaris. I am an amateur naturalist trying to learn something about everything living in my garden. For the unskilled amateur botanist (=me! A characteristic feature of the Hawks-beards are 'involucre bracts' (=the little leaves around the base of the flower head - best seem in photo 2) organised in distinct inner and outer rows. Species - see my post here. As most people ...
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Life On An Oxfordshire Lawn: Two species of cyanobacteria (possibly Nostoc commune and Anabaena cylindrica)
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Life On An Oxfordshire Lawn. An amateur works out what lives in his garden. Thursday, December 30, 2010. Two species of cyanobacteria (possibly Nostoc commune and Anabaena cylindrica). I am an amateur naturalist trying to learn something about everything that lives in my garden. Some of you may recall that in a recent posting. I bought a puddle into my house (it was in a plastic fishtank! Has cavities in the leaves. According to the book above, nitrogen fixation by cyanobacteria also plays a fundamen...
