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Volunteers and staff from Northumberland Wildlife Trust have been conducting the wildlife charity’s annual Whitelee Moor bird ...
Western false asphodel has pretty white flowers and hairs on its stalk that can trap and digest insects. If you hike through a mountain bog along the West Coast of North America in midsummer ...
‘The site supports key species including round-leaved sundew, bog asphodel, orchids, sphagnum mosses, cotton-grass, hen harrier, meadow pipit, grasshopper warbler, reed bunting, cuckoo, curlew, ...
Spires of yellow bog asphodel seemed to challenge the usual adjectives for this treeless terrain – desolate, lonely, isolated, bleak. Down again beside a pool, I dropped to my knees to hold a ...
Bog asphodel and Rhizobium work together to create a “symbiotic relationship”, which both the bog asphodel and the Rhizobium bacterium benefit. Rhizobium bacteria can fix atmospheric nitrogen into a ...
Information boards with photographs of the insects (eg green hair streak, small heath and silver-washed fritillary butterflies) and flowers (like the carnivorous sundew, bog asphodel “the ...
Archaeologists have uncovered a "bog body" in the U.K. that is between 2,000 and 2,500 years old. The find was made after the police were alerted about the discovery of human bones in peatland ...
Bog Asphodel, Star sedge, and the soft absorbent Sphagnum mosses, to name but a few. John Andrews, Chair of Friends of the Quantocks, said: “Friends of the Quantocks is in the fortunate position to ...
The leaves are described as lanceolate meaning they are longer than wide and are spear shaped. A few weeks ago I introduced the seed heads of Bog Asphodel, which I partnered with a Rhizobium bacteria, ...
Helen Earnshaw, Lancashire Wildlife Trust Peatlands Programme Project Officer, said: “It is exciting to see bog asphodel, white beak sedge, greater sundew and oblong-leaved sundew back on ...
Lancashire Wildlife Trust said it has reintroduced 17,500 plants of missing species, including the carnivorous greater sundew and oblong-leaved sundew, along with bog asphodel and white beak sedge.