Brown Argus foodplants
Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2014 9:53 am
This article might have suffered from the editor's pen:
http://www.independent.co.uk/environmen ... 79477.html
It hardly seems to be ground breaking research to realise that the Brown Argus has apparently stopped using Rock Rose in places where it is a rare plant.
And to go back 100 years or so, wasn't the Comma traditionally associated with hop, especially cultivated hop fields in Herefordshire (and to a lesser extent Kent)? Then it began preferring what until then had been a secondary foodplant, nettle. And look at how the comma has spread in the past 100 years?
Jack
http://www.independent.co.uk/environmen ... 79477.html
It hardly seems to be ground breaking research to realise that the Brown Argus has apparently stopped using Rock Rose in places where it is a rare plant.
And to go back 100 years or so, wasn't the Comma traditionally associated with hop, especially cultivated hop fields in Herefordshire (and to a lesser extent Kent)? Then it began preferring what until then had been a secondary foodplant, nettle. And look at how the comma has spread in the past 100 years?
Jack