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Common Knapweed_1
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Stirlingshire - Fallin and Wester Moss
Common or Black Knapweed (Centaurea nigra), a good nectar plant for bees and butterflies, at Fallin Bing, Stirlingshire, on the site of the former Polmaise Colliery.
22 August 2016
The disused Longannet coal mine from the Forth
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Fife - Kincardine
The disused Longannet coal mine taken on a cruise from South Queensferry to Kincardine Bridge and back on the Maid of the Forth - an IFLI event called The Inner Forth from a New Perspective.
01 September 2017
Fly on creeping thistle
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Stirlingshire - Fallin and Wester Moss
Fly (Diptera) on creeping thistle (Cirsium arvense), taken on a plant walk with the Inner Forth Landscape Initiative in Fallin, Stirling.
27 July 2016
Common Centaury
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Stirlingshire - Fallin and Wester Moss
Common Centaury (Centaurium erythraea) taken on a plant walk with the Inner Forth Landscape Initiative in Fallin, Stirling. Found in a range of habitats, though scarcer in Scotland, this wildflower comes into bloom in June. Flowers are small, pink, five-petalled, and arranged in clusters.
27 July 2016
Soldier beetles mating
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Stirlingshire - Fallin and Wester Moss
Soldier beetles (Rhagonycha fulva) mating on creeping thistle (Cirsium arvense).Tthey will spend much of their brief summer lives doing this. Adults feed on pollen and nectar as well as on aphids. This photo was taken on a plant walk with the Inner Forth Landscape Initiative in Fallin, Stirling.
27 July 2016
Male meadow brown on knapweed
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Stirlingshire - Fallin and Wester Moss
Male Meadow Brown (Maniola jurtina) butterfly on knapweed (Centaurea nigra), taken on a plant walk with the Inner Forth Landscape Initiative in Fallin, Stirling.
27 July 2016
Male Meadow Brown
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Stirlingshire - Fallin and Wester Moss
Male Meadow Brown (Maniola jurtina) butterfly on knapweed (Centaurea nigra), taken on a plant walk with the Inner Forth Landscape Initiative in Fallin, Stirlingshire. Meadow Brown butterflies are common throughout the UK and easy to spot. However many are being lost due to agricultural intensification.
27 July 2016
Female Meadow Brown
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Stirlingshire - Fallin and Wester Moss
Female Meadow Brown (Maniola jurtina) butterfly on knapweed (Centaurea nigra), taken on a plant walk with the Inner Forth Landscape Initiative in Fallin, Stirlingshire. Meadow Brown butterflies are common throughout the UK and easy to spot. However many are being lost due to agricultural intensification.
27 July 2016
Small copper butterfly
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Stirlingshire - Fallin and Wester Moss
Small copper (Lycaena phlaeas) butterfly, taken on a plant walk with the Inner Forth Landscape Initiative in Fallin, Stirling.
27 July 2016
Small copper butterfly
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Stirlingshire - Fallin and Wester Moss
Small copper (Lycaena phlaeas) butterfly, taken on a plant walk with the Inner Forth Landscape Initiative in Fallin, Stirling.
