All along the southern verge of Bittaford Road, from Bittaford to the station, there are big clumps of sweet violets. All are white rather than purple. There is also a cowslip. At White Oxen, some purple violets (common dog violets), red dead-nettle, and carpets of golden saxifrage and barren strawberries. Also two fallow deer and a…
Month: March 2017
Vapourer moth
Collected a few vapourer moth eggs on Ugborough Beacon to try and raise at home in the hope of seeing the ornate caterpillars. I am curious to know if they will be the usual red form or the yellow form that may be specific to Cornwall. The eggs were attached to bracken stalks that largely had been…