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Common Spotted Orchids in meadow on Rusthall Common #wildflowerhour
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Research Curator at the Amelia, Tunbridge Wells. Entomologist. Natural historian. Local historian. Ecology & heritage of Scilly & the Channel Islands
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Ian Beavis
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Common Spotted Orchids in meadow on Rusthall Common #wildflowerhour
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Ian Beavis
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Oxeye Daisy and rayed form of Common Knapweed at Woodbury Park Cemetery #wildflowerhour
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Viper's Bugloss and Common Mallow on Tunbridge Wells Common #wildflowerhour
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Ian Beavis
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A very early-flowering Michaelmas Daisy appearing as a 'street weed' #wildflowerhour
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Huge Butterfly-bush by the railway in Tunbridge Wells #wildflowerhour
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The vividly coloured hoverfly Xanthogramma pedissequum on Tunbridge Wells Common today
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An impressive new rock outcrop exposure on Rusthall Common - previously completely invisible due to scrub encroachment
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A pair of robberflies Dysmachus trigonus, a species of sandy ground, on Rusthall Common today
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Ian Beavis
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Yes, I can imagine it's very invasive & the burs are easily spread. Fortunately it's only at three sites in Kent, including this one (though this is the first time I've seen it myself)
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Pirri-pirri Bur, a naturalised plant from New Zealand, on the sandy heathland ridge at RSPB Tudeley reserve #wildflowerhour
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Common Cudweed on the sandy heathland ridge at RSPB Tudeley #wildflowerhour
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Common Spotted Orchid and Yellow Rattle at RSPB Tudeley reserve #wildflowerhour
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A couple of nice examples of lawns allowed to display their natural flower-rich turf with Cat's-ear and Birdsfoot Trefoil #wildflowerhour
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Grass Vetchling - a unique vivid pink colour that shines out in a meadow #wildflowerhour
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Some sort of solitary bee (mining bee) or wasp (digger wasp). Without knowing your patch, hard to say which. Best to keep watch on a sunny day & try to get a picture of one returning. The females will make repeated visits as they build up a food store for their young
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New wildflower meadow in Calverley Grounds developing well, showing Cat's-ear and Oxeye Daisy prominently here. #wildflowerhour
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Ian Beavis
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Strip of disturbed ground at the apex of Tunbridge Wells Common - with the Californian Poppy (see last), Common Mallow & Oxeye Daisy. Contrasting with the natural acid grassland turf characterised by Cat's-ear #wildflowerhour
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Ian Beavis
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Californian Poppy naturalised in disturbed ground on Tunbridge Wells Common #wildflowerhour
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Cat's-ear and Pignut in Woodbury Park Cemetery #wildflowerhour
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Ian Beavis
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A fine display of Cat's-ear in Woodbury Park Cemetery #wildflowerhour
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Street weed ensemble with dandelion, Smooth Sow-thistle & Procumbent Yellow Sorrel #wildflowerhour
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Tutsan, the largest of our native St John's worts, at RSPB Fore Wood. Could easily be taken for a garden escape (like larger-flowered Rose of Sharon), but this is a true woodland wildflower
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Common Spotted Orchid at RSPB Fore Wood. The commonest British orchid, the 'spotted' refers to the leaves.
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The thing is both sides have an anthropomorphic 'watchmaker' view of God/the Absolute in their heads. If you go with a Neoplatonist or Hindu or Buddhist metaphysics you dont have to take sides in that dispute
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The late 19th/early 20th C ichneumon specialist Claude Morley said they were designed by God as a natural means of pest control. So the argument can work either way
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Ian Beavis
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And a recently hatched Garden Spider cluster beginning to disperse
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Lots of clusters of newly hatched Garden Spiders (Araneus diadematus) appearing at the moment. They cling together early on so they look unappetising to predators
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Red Campion used to be oddly scarce in Tunbridge Wells but is now appearing more often. Here in Grosvenor & Hilbert Park. #wildflowerhour
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Carpet of the common Daisy on the edge of Tunbridge Wells Common #wildflowerhour
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Atlas Poppy at its regular spot on the edge of Tunbridge Wells Common #wildflowerhour
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Two mining bee characteristic of flower-rich grassland, Andrena labiata with distinctive red band and A fulvago, on Tunbridge Wells Common yesterday
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The first soldier beetles of the season - Cantharis rustica - were out on Tunbridge Wells Common yesterday
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Freshly emerged Small Copper on Tunbridge Wells Common yesterday
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Some of the actual moths from Sunday's moth morning in Calverley Grounds - Lime Hawk, Peach Blossom & Swallow Prominent
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Ian Beavis
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And one of those maybugs aka cockchafers from Sunday's Calverley Grounds moth morning
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We got several in the moth trap on Saturday night for our moth morning in Calverley Grounds
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Bee-fly Bombylius major perched during an overcast spell and waiting for the sun to come out again
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Two colour forms of the beautiful click-beetle Selatosomus aeneus near Leominster over the weekend
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Ashy Mining Bee (Andrena cineraria) at Leominster over the weekend
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Mouse-ear Hawkweed on Yellow Meadow Ant mounds on Tunbridge Wells Common today
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White Deadnettle - with queen Garden Bumblebee - on the motte at Tonbridge Castle #wildflowerhour
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Ian Beavis
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Hawthorn starting to flower at Tonbridge Castle #wildflowerhour
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Cow Parsley, the classic spring umbellifer, growing en masse on the motte at Tonbridge Castle #wildflowerhour
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Ian Beavis
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Cow Parsley, the classic spring umbellifer, coming into bloom in Grosvenor & Hilbert Park #wildflowerhour
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Ramsons aka Wild Garlic en masse beside the chalybeate stream in Grosvenor & Hilbert Park #wildflowerhour
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Fern-leaved Corydalis long established on an old retaining wall in the allotments at Grosvenor & Hilbert Park. When not in flower it can easily be mistaken for a fern. #wildflowerhour
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Ian Beavis
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Marsh Marigold in wet grassland in Woodbury Park Cemetery #wildflowerhour
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Primroses, some with cultivar genes, on Rusthall Common #wildflowerhour
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Cowslips en masse in Woodbury Park Cemetery #wildflowerhour
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Self-sown Mahonia seedling on top of the same wall #wildflowerhour
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