This species is found mainly in moist meadows and hedgerows where adults feed mainly on umbellifers such as Heracleum sphondylium (Hogweed) and Anthriscus sylvestris (Cow Parsley). It is also found on nettles and thistles. Their flight time is May to August but numbers peak in May and June. It is a stem boring species who’s...
Arthur O. Chater, Ray G. Woods, R. Nigel Stringer, Debbie A. Evans & Paul A. Smith (2021) Ramularia species, often referred to as White Moulds, are a large and interesting but little studied group of parasitic Hyphomycete fungi. Eighty-one species are reported here from Wales in 180 unique combinations with their host organisms. This compares...
Floristic data were collected each year from 2011 to 2022 on embryo dunes and an associated wetland that began to form on Ainsdale beach in 2008 as a southern extension of Birkdale Green Beach. Named the ‘Newest Green Beach’ and eventually covering 2.4 ha, this feature developed rapidly by accretion of blown sand, initially around Puccinellia maritima (Common Saltmarsh-grass), to form a dune ridge over 4 m in height, protecting a seasonally-flooded primary dune-slack. By 2022, 245 vascular taxa (species subspecies and hybrids) had been recorded for the feature. Annual totals initially showed an almost linear increase in the number of plants over time.