the knapweed is out and makes a tangled carpet of purple interspersed with tall bunches of fragrant meadowsweet, red sorrel, and the brilliant yellow of bird's foot trefoil. All of these plants act as host to a wide range of insects and the meadows are full of a vast number of them, butterflies, moths, bees, hover flies, grasshoppers,crickets,all busily fuelling up for the serious business ahead.
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I remember you saying last fall the knap weed had been spectacular a month before-now I see! I won't be there til late Oct this year, so look forward to more as nature progresses through the year...
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