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Dicyphus nymph
been doing a lot of site surveys through the summer mainly for larger things but it's good...
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Uploaded on Aug 28, 2009
Pea Weevil Sitona lineatus
a very common little thing and quite charming (as are all weevils, unless you're a gardener, or a farmer, or just don't like weevils)
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Uploaded on Aug 28, 2009
Predatory Red Mite
tiny but fearsome and will jab that beak into anything too slow to get out of the way
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Uploaded on Aug 28, 2009
Green Shield Bug Palomena prasina
A mass of Bog Pimpernel
The Big and the Small
a single common cudweed Filago vulgaris towers over a colony of small cudweed Filago minima newly discovered in 2009
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Uploaded on Jul 1, 2009
Lost
a nibbled broad-leaved helleborine Epipactis helleborine has wandered out into the arable...
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Uploaded on Jul 1, 2009
Golden-ringed Dragonfly Cordulagaster boltonii
a spectacular insect rather local on the Island; this one was clinging to gorse up on Staplers hill above Newport
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Uploaded on Jul 1, 2009
Brownfield Garden
an old cenment works up for redevelopment ius at the moment a sea of lesser centaury Centaurium pulchellum and scarlet pimpernel Anagallis arvensis
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Uploaded on Jul 1, 2009
Minarets
a marbled white Melanargia galathea feeds in front of dramatic salsify Tragopogon porrifolius in fields east of Newport
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Uploaded on Jul 1, 2009
Cousins
Common centuary Centaurium erythraea with lesser centuary centaurium pulchellum
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Uploaded on Jul 1, 2009
Sea Heath Frankenia laevis
an uncommon plant on the island, this small pathc is growing on broken concrete alongside...
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Uploaded on Jul 1, 2009
Bonsai Knotweed
the dreaded Japanese Knotweed Fallopia Japonica a year after heavy glyphosate...
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Uploaded on Jul 1, 2009
Leopard Slug Limax maximus
Lithobiid centipede
with pretty vicious looking poison claws at the head end
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Uploaded on Jul 1, 2009
Subterranean Clover Trifolium subterraneum
growing on a greensand nursery site where Island 2000 helps with eco-audit work...
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Uploaded on Jul 1, 2009
Sand Spurrey Spergularia rubra
another dry ground specialist, not too common on the Island
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Uploaded on Jul 1, 2009
