Late afternoon walk up 2 #DevilsDyke along #DykeApproach path where the magnificent magenta crowns & their cousins where still providing food, their silver seed-heads shelter & perches to a host of insects, among them Grey-backed Snout Hoverfly (Rhingia rostrata).
#GreaterKnapweed
#Blackknapweed
Butterbridge, Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park. #Scotland #theTrossachs #Cairndow #Fireweed #BlackKnapweed
Centaurea nigra L.
#centaureanigra #flowers #wildflowers #nature #naturephotography #knapweed #commonknapweed #blackknapweed #bellweed #asteraceae #plants #flowerphotography #kornblume #flora #pinkflowers #botany #naturelover #flowerlovers #Norway
Common yet beautiful & so lovely to see the Blood-vein (Timandra comae) moth on my #allotment. It likes to hang around the pond looking very Art Deco & autumnal I think.
The Red-tailed males are still around & still favouring the #BlackKnapweed even as they are fading.
#moths #bumblebses
Among the shining stars of #GreaterKnapweed seed heads, the standouts of the many stalwart plants still feeding trillions in drought conditions, are still the #Ragwort and the #Blackknapweed.
#DykeApproach path along #chalkgrassland
Nature needs more of her chalk land returned to her!
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Windy solace at the #allotment
Our friends hanging on for dear life in the #FieldScabious & #BlackKnapweed ..
.. not a soul in the nigella & purple-top 'gifted' from neighbours
#GrowNativePlants4Insects
This lady does not care a jot if the colour of her nether 'tresses' clash w the table cloth.
It's tuck in or starve in the insect world .. as often & regularly as you can in their very short energy-zapping lives 🐝 & #BlackKnapweed is manna in June .. the very best!
#Red-tailedbumblebee
#allotment
Back home to #allotment after many days away means nature exploded in all directions.
Not one to rush to control her, I notice #bees & other #insects loving the pink bushiness & white ballgowns of #BlackKnapweed & #HedgeBindweed blooms.
Let #Nature guide you before you yank out the undesirables!
black knapweed
- A weedy perennial with tough wiry stems and purple flowers; native to europe but widely naturalized
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