Daily Archive: July 3, 2012

Large Blue (Maculinea arion) - Collard Hill, Somerset, UK. ID JB5_2930

Please help the Large Blues!

Large Blue (Maculinea arion) – Collard Hill, Somerset, UK. ID JB5_2930 Due to the rapid grass flowering, following the recent wet period, many Wild Thyme flowers are swamped and inaccessible to egg-laying females. As...

Big bales in flood - Glastonbury, Somerset, UK. ID JB5_3012

These fields need a Bale Out

Successful hay making relies on the grass being thoroughly dried before it is baled. I’m not sure this farmer near Glastonbury baled dry grass but after the wettest June in a hundred years in...