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kindredspiritkevin

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Re: February wildlife
« Reply #15 on: February 19, 2014, 08:30:46 PM »
Quote from: Anthony Darby on February 19, 2014, 07:08:34 AM
Is your pampas grass the New Zealand species above?

Yep. Toy Toy. (Spelling?) Cortaderia Richardii.
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Re: February wildlife
« Reply #16 on: February 19, 2014, 11:05:47 PM »
Toetoe I think?
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Re: February wildlife
« Reply #17 on: February 19, 2014, 11:08:36 PM »
I also believe the botanists have been busy and reclassified it into a new genus?

It grows well (almost naturalised) here in the Western Isles of Scotland!
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Re: February wildlife
« Reply #18 on: February 20, 2014, 09:11:53 AM »
Alas the South American pampas grass (Cortaderia selloana and C. jubata) are weeds in New Zealand and they should be eradicated. We have Austroderia (Cortaderia) fulvida growing in many places near us in Auckland. http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/science/plants-animals-fungi/plants/ethnobotany/weaving-plants/information-sheets/toetoe
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Re: February wildlife
« Reply #19 on: February 23, 2014, 02:51:19 PM »
Slightly fuzzy picture of a Scarlet Tiger caterpillar. I find quite a few of these and a few times I've seen the moth in the garden. I've noticed that at this time of year when the sun shines the caterpillars ascend saplings/ suckers of various trees and bushes - although they don't actually eat them.



 
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Re: February wildlife
« Reply #20 on: February 23, 2014, 03:53:03 PM »
Frogspawn has appeared in a friends pond
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Re: February wildlife
« Reply #21 on: February 23, 2014, 06:26:25 PM »
Aphids! I found a greenfly in the garden today. Drat this mild weather!
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Re: February wildlife
« Reply #22 on: February 24, 2014, 05:58:01 PM »
Quite a few frogs in a garden I visited yesterday, and ladybirds everywhere.

Hibernating Peacock butterflies waking up at work today, had 4 in the greenhouse/potting shed.
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Re: February wildlife
« Reply #23 on: February 24, 2014, 07:09:29 PM »
Quote from: RichardW on February 24, 2014, 05:58:01 PM
Hibernating Peacock butterflies waking up at work today, had 4 in the greenhouse/potting shed.

worth reporting to the Butterfly Conservation sightings section of their web site
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Re: February wildlife
« Reply #24 on: March 04, 2014, 11:48:00 AM »
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