... Thank you. Can you tell me how it works? I think of galls as affecting, or forming, a discrete part of a plant. Where would the larva actually be dwelling...
Aphelia paleana usually spins up leaves of grasses (it has the English name Timothy Tortrix) though may go on other plants too. Falseuncaria degreyana feeds on...
I've looked at some cecidology websites and cannot find any moths that create galls; also the stems were not spun together in any way, just much longer than...
Actually there are a few gall creating moths, and you can find them in the British Plant Galls book. One that we have been out for recently is the tortricid...
... between TQ201091 and TQ204092. There are indeed many thousand including numerous white and pink colour forms. I've not visited yet this year but they have...
Andy, This must refer to Marrubium, the plant which was known in medieval herbal medicine. It's never been a common plant, but the site of Arundel Castle, a...
Hello Rodney, Thanks for the reply. If the plant is not longer at Arundel, would there be a case for it to become re-established? Or is considered a pest weed...
Andy, Your first question is one I would rather you hadn't asked, it's an ethical one. Certainly if Arundel town council, if there is one, had the idea that it...
Hello, PS: The type of idea that I didn't have when I was working for Arun Council, but I expect I would have got around to it if I had stayed. It would have ...
... Council, ... have ... Arun (in ... My job ... august, ... 'shine'.] A ... venerable. OE. 2 ... OE. 3 ... obs. exc. ... yes you are on the right lines Andy....
... taste to the honey. It's not so much the taste as the texture. Brassica nectar has a high proportion of glucose, allowing it to crystalise very readily. ...
... Solitary bees make a cell, fill it, lay an egg and move on. They don't store and move honey around like hive bees. Think they also add pollen which will...
Hello Is anyone able to identify the Elm from the pictures here, please. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/ray.hamblett1/nature/ulmus.html It is suggested they are...
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Ray Elms are notoriously difficult to i.d. especially from a photo. However, this one looks like wych elm to me, largely on the basis of the broad leaf and...
Hello, Although Wych Elms are the local common species on an area that is mostly calcareous, i.e. chalky, the main population of sad and dying Wych Elms was ...
Hello, I think it must be English Elms at Coombes, not Wych Elms as I previously said. This is because they sucker freely which is why they are persisting ...
I have found my elm key, compiled by Max Coleman, University of Reading - see below 1. Leaves >70mm in length, roughly hairy on upper side, >12 pairs of...
In a message dated 09/05/05 17:17:40 GMT Daylight Time, ... Hi ray, not sure about the Elm but the gall looks like Aceria ulmicola(Nalepa) as per Redfern's...
Phil, Remember that sucker leaves can be quite different from "proper" leaves on Elms (and many other trees too) Maybe the photographed leaves were a mixture...
What it says is; "This guide is only applicable to plants in the 'tree' or 'large tree' size categories, it is not suitable for sucker growth or 'small...
Hello, Has anybody observed Sea Kale commercial collection from public beaches to supply London restaurants? There has been one report of black bin liners full...
It's highly likely that this sort of thing will be happening increasingly now that wild food has become the latest craze in top restaurants. I have certainly...
The other day I got to thinking about my personal "should-have- seens". These are not your desiderata, but plants that aren't very rare or critical that given...
Interesting! Re arum: I went back to the classic 'Lords and Ladies' by C.T.Prime (Collins New Naturalist series 1960)which devotes several chapters to the...
