Lynchcombe Steps
I have been out of the country for a few weeks and have come back to rubbish weather and lots and lots of blackberries. Blackberries cover every bramble bush on the Lynchcombe nature reserve...
Tagged: Mites
Lynchcombe Steps
Lynchcombe views are the best in Somerset. Today, with its beautiful blue sky, and fluffy white clouds, the views were at their summer best. So I had to take way to many landscape photographs. Here are...
Trombidium breei
At Hatch Hill today most of the Marbled White butterflies (Melanargia calathea) were covered in red mites (Trombidium breei). These parasitic attach to the butterflies bodies to feed from their blood. They really standout against the black...
