Pollinator power

A trip to Twyford Wood to check on populations of some of the scarcer plants including Autumn Gentian and Devil's-bit Scabious. I was pleased to see that both were thriving! 

The Devil's-bit Scabious is locally very abundant in cracks of the 2nd World War runways, and is probably now one of the largest populations in South Lincolnshire. It was attracting lots of bees and flies, including this very bristly Tachina fera.

I was also pleased to find a beautiful specimen of Lacquered Bracket at the edge of the car-park, growing on an oak stump This seems to be a failry uncommon find in Britain and Ireland.