Butterfly and Flora walk on Roman Road, Saturday 14 July

Jennifer and Sally arranged a trip to the Roman Road (Little Abington section) to see the butterflies and flowers on the morning of 14 July. There were 11 of us altogether.

This is the list of butterflies that we saw:

•    Brimstone
•    Large White
•    Small White
•    Green Veined White
•    Meadow Brown
•    Gatekeeper
•    Ringlet
•    Common Blue
•    Small Skipper

(The majority were the Large and Small White which are very numerous everywhere this summer)


Derek and Peter took a few photos:

Common Blue

Common Blue

Ringlet

Meadow Brown

These are the flora we noted:

• Parsnip
• Field Scabious
• Small Scabious
• Spear Thistle
• Curled Dock
• Dog Rose
• Dark Mullein
• Common Mallow
• Geranium
• Dead Nettle
• Common Ragwort
• Yarrow
• Knapweed
• Knapweed [rayed form]
• Great Knapweed
• Ladies bedstraw
• Hedge bedstraw
• St John's Wort
• Wild Carrot
• Field Bindweed
• Hedge Bindweed
• Mugwort
• Wild Mignonette
• Weld
• Black Horehound
• Herb Robert
• Lucerne
• Rough Chervil
• Restharrow
• Bladder Campion seed heads
• Rock Rose
• Goat's Beard seed heads