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Common Fox Spider, Wester Moss, Fallin
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Common Fox Spider (Alopecosa pulverulenta) at Wester Moss, Fallin. It is incredibly well camouflaged against the background of dead vegetation. The spider is found in many open habitats, including heathland, grasslands, moorland, dunes and old quarries and pits. This species is of the family Lycosidae, the Wolf spiders.
13 September 2016
Common Fox Spider, Wester Moss, Fallin
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Common fox spider (Alopecosa pulverulenta) at Wester Moss, Fallin. The spider is found in many open habitats, including heathland, grasslands, moorland, dunes and old quarries and pits. This species is of the family Lycosidae, the Wolf spiders.
13 September 2016
Grasshopper, Fallin bing
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Grasshopper, Fallin bing, Stirlingshire
11 July 2015
Grasshopper, Fallin bing
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Grasshopper, Fallin bing, Stirlingshire
11 July 2015
Viper's bugloss, Fallin bing
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Viper's bugloss (Echium vulgare), is so called as the red stamens resemble the forked tongue of a snake. This one was photographed at Fallin bing, Stirlingshire
11 July 2015
Common Knapweed_1
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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
Fly on creeping thistle
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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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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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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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Male Meadow Brown (Maniola jurtina) butterfly on knapweed (Centaurea nigra), taken on a plant walk with the Inner Forth Landscape Initiative in Fallin, Stirling.