tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76438249856665457392024-03-05T11:03:37.839+01:00Crofting CatalunyaThe story of a crofter, in Catalunya.Crofterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10296387385351481716noreply@blogger.comBlogger255125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7643824985666545739.post-4156380149690990092022-09-01T10:12:00.000+02:002022-09-01T10:12:22.316+02:00Everbrown?<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The forest around the Croft is full of Holm oak, <i>Quercus ilex</i>. Holm oak is evergreen and so our valley has always been a green place, even in the hottest summers. But this year - the second year of drought in Montseny - the trees have turned brown. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The picture would look normal, in autumn in a deciduous forest. But here in the Holm oak forests of Catalonia it's a sign of death.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPmsUjKboDTBnh06QVwQ8xwK5lARqsqRJhBcaCf_Y4b0Ccjn3irKfGj4VQJi4Djt5HAQ1i2UnobrfVyv9SW4NBgXPTDzS75ai1sjquP0u08Nn37dofuVKAYCxTK0sEn-0Z5tPN8-aByZBS3Umu6es4sh3b1HGWAWNwejev0EmONkHNP6bZjoC7qj08gw/s4608/Brown%20Woodland.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPmsUjKboDTBnh06QVwQ8xwK5lARqsqRJhBcaCf_Y4b0Ccjn3irKfGj4VQJi4Djt5HAQ1i2UnobrfVyv9SW4NBgXPTDzS75ai1sjquP0u08Nn37dofuVKAYCxTK0sEn-0Z5tPN8-aByZBS3Umu6es4sh3b1HGWAWNwejev0EmONkHNP6bZjoC7qj08gw/s320/Brown%20Woodland.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Thirsty trees<br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Groups of Holm oak have either died or gone into some form of drought hibernation. Around here these patches of brown seem to be associated with soil disturbance - a new path here, a drain dug there.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The die-back has been general, affecting all the plant life (and, we assume, some of the fauna too).</span></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDJk_xKhixSWLhBkglaDQuU9PMq1-kkcMBkUpWmDreYopBJWFwzY3E-i5SNjb3qZknK-j_9-31gSoKDqnbaCtQC5iaaFYbfMrK0w6rOrN7YI62rJ-uAPut6OLsXUc-Nw7sH3JAdGZjoYJ5y9YjWx2nrFLJLQrghB5l5Ls6_lCoCIXAcknNSKAV1r-4YA/s4608/Drought%20dead%20plant.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDJk_xKhixSWLhBkglaDQuU9PMq1-kkcMBkUpWmDreYopBJWFwzY3E-i5SNjb3qZknK-j_9-31gSoKDqnbaCtQC5iaaFYbfMrK0w6rOrN7YI62rJ-uAPut6OLsXUc-Nw7sH3JAdGZjoYJ5y9YjWx2nrFLJLQrghB5l5Ls6_lCoCIXAcknNSKAV1r-4YA/s320/Drought%20dead%20plant.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Pasture limits<br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">In August, finally, it rained, and first the grasses and then the trees have been slurping up the water, and putting out new green shoots. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">And still governments take too little action on climate change. Shame on them.</span><br /></p>Crofterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10296387385351481716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7643824985666545739.post-38339888400260969602022-09-01T10:01:00.003+02:002022-09-01T10:01:45.718+02:00Six Slick Snakes<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Crofter's mate found these snake skins - all six of them - by our garden rockery. Looks like a whole family of snakes moulted on the same day (10th August 2022). We're not sure which species they are - but there are plenty of Ladder snakes (<i>Elaphe scalaris</i>) in our garden.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBgE4TQ7esiAKrkBfKCeLago5s1eyWodRqqOGlJ_pyeHsdfJCFPI-FEd2tlVByN81qex8VImbh9ZbdTHLRCMW98_u27aGpOdEIFmwL6eHqfB4f10ZbekyA_7ZYi-spSne4d7DrmFqPPQAOlwE5RU6A6Yls8CbIU9XaZiLP3LON0R7-43xDR1-epKsbHQ/s4608/Snakeskins%20six.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBgE4TQ7esiAKrkBfKCeLago5s1eyWodRqqOGlJ_pyeHsdfJCFPI-FEd2tlVByN81qex8VImbh9ZbdTHLRCMW98_u27aGpOdEIFmwL6eHqfB4f10ZbekyA_7ZYi-spSne4d7DrmFqPPQAOlwE5RU6A6Yls8CbIU9XaZiLP3LON0R7-43xDR1-epKsbHQ/s320/Snakeskins%20six.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Cast in the same moult<br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><p><br /></p>Crofterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10296387385351481716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7643824985666545739.post-11506456288567428802022-07-21T10:01:00.007+02:002022-07-21T10:01:45.978+02:00His Imperial Majesty, or hers<p> <span style="font-family: verdana;">This huge hairy caterpillar came into the front door of the Croft, yesterday:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzADIJYawJbE47sQN0scssMqK_uy1mmplOwJmcL4_hMHS3BYqzJZOKEC9vuN7uzj-cOjyzSW8PKbLHA3-k98Q' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></span></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">She or he is the caterpillar (larva) of the Emperor moth, <i>Saturnia pavonia</i>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiKY3ph5JFvUZXtmlFt2Yj717CyKujv6-8wplayr49fgHiq8i1WhGEb_CE6GAmDhTOnWrnm3cppe4ZSayyFbk6bVWXAydL5iiqandMdIhdPw8LmRGrf57-TW2K74EEPpwUO4To8MHELvpHKZWziRa87xC4pin67BlDYgl7wS8XAkIKkG4jrq7J7QVnIQ/s4608/Emperor%20moth%20Saturnia%20pavonia%20caterpillar.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiKY3ph5JFvUZXtmlFt2Yj717CyKujv6-8wplayr49fgHiq8i1WhGEb_CE6GAmDhTOnWrnm3cppe4ZSayyFbk6bVWXAydL5iiqandMdIhdPw8LmRGrf57-TW2K74EEPpwUO4To8MHELvpHKZWziRa87xC4pin67BlDYgl7wS8XAkIKkG4jrq7J7QVnIQ/s320/Emperor%20moth%20Saturnia%20pavonia%20caterpillar.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Nature, coming in the door<br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /> S/he is dressed for the disco - yellow body stocking, neon-blue jewellery and that "I'll have a Bloody Mary" mouthpart.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></p>Crofterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10296387385351481716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7643824985666545739.post-53588860440021120202022-07-13T16:38:00.003+02:002022-07-13T16:38:33.491+02:00Moulded slime<p> <span style="font-family: verdana;">The
woodland next to the Croft has recently been cut, leaving the tracks
covered in wood chips. I run along these tracks most days.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Recently I've tried not to step on this:</span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgcGsXrA5TKNIdky01uVPku5mFcSA9GY25hkxV7vp7SPtXni5BmMwkaYajKioccvWrq-p0EYPYsK4dPic6KF2zR6n4oDlSkNZRJK-Xhvke-K_9gak9zRtHYJAWMLKXW4RfDgcALnaEsPlFlyrvz9PtqU5Uc2P5xEyvcnx-pkYsi_v0zLdMhJ_qF_95wg/s4608/Cowpat%20fungus%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgcGsXrA5TKNIdky01uVPku5mFcSA9GY25hkxV7vp7SPtXni5BmMwkaYajKioccvWrq-p0EYPYsK4dPic6KF2zR6n4oDlSkNZRJK-Xhvke-K_9gak9zRtHYJAWMLKXW4RfDgcALnaEsPlFlyrvz9PtqU5Uc2P5xEyvcnx-pkYsi_v0zLdMhJ_qF_95wg/s320/Cowpat%20fungus%20(2).JPG" width="320" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Cowpat? Dog vomit? Stale bread roll?<br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> At
first it was yellow and fluffy - I thought it was some effect caused by
horse urine. Then it dried out and turned cream-brown, so maybe it was a
cowpat (there are no free cows around here, so unlikely)?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> I broke off a piece, and saw the spores, so it had to be a fungus or a mould. <br /></span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDZsHt2gNNMRL6bnAKiy-JKDqhtTX15yKs3mJeyf2SkuDcfekoWpMPZ6Pu9VFT6StBKsWvyDMzot58pC5tZaOoCpxTkPMeUZMI7gfvutXE_JwmeKLjz-dmH-o1e2eo4pyt2ZDomW7mdddPGTb2xu41I381WcqxjWQodbLaPFimnaS7iNq3jrdE6mfdyg/s4608/Cowpat%20fungus%20(1).JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDZsHt2gNNMRL6bnAKiy-JKDqhtTX15yKs3mJeyf2SkuDcfekoWpMPZ6Pu9VFT6StBKsWvyDMzot58pC5tZaOoCpxTkPMeUZMI7gfvutXE_JwmeKLjz-dmH-o1e2eo4pyt2ZDomW7mdddPGTb2xu41I381WcqxjWQodbLaPFimnaS7iNq3jrdE6mfdyg/s320/Cowpat%20fungus%20(1).JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Scores of spores<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">It turns out that it is a slime mould, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuligo_septica" target="_blank">Fuligo septica</a></i>, also known, charmingly, as "dog vomit slime mould". It grows on moist wood chip and mulch. </span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Welcome to weird nature!</span>Crofterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10296387385351481716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7643824985666545739.post-52514664277100338542022-07-13T16:37:00.003+02:002022-07-13T16:37:14.670+02:00A Stable Home<p> <span style="font-family: verdana;">A wren, <i>Troglodytes troglodytes</i>, has made her home in the roof beams of our donkey stable:</span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-jRD6avLKq8Qi3CXrwzUimHA_n9AyZO6qNDxmgnNRVf9_0fDPa9cNoxvN5GqpatoL1dthfEy6ZodmSpAIumi_2s0KvKbNOgJ9pWRN1R58nuBt1rPIZ1PNL8c_DZnABcD8FBTsJBsW95RI7vXtgUf5n-Vb7XRbiXMvMnO6exVg9_EFmNv1G4wBDqrdfQ/s4608/Wren%20nest%20in%20stable.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-jRD6avLKq8Qi3CXrwzUimHA_n9AyZO6qNDxmgnNRVf9_0fDPa9cNoxvN5GqpatoL1dthfEy6ZodmSpAIumi_2s0KvKbNOgJ9pWRN1R58nuBt1rPIZ1PNL8c_DZnABcD8FBTsJBsW95RI7vXtgUf5n-Vb7XRbiXMvMnO6exVg9_EFmNv1G4wBDqrdfQ/s320/Wren%20nest%20in%20stable.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Messy, but safe<br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />I
can't see how many fledglings she has in there but the cheeping, and
the constant in-and-out with insects indicates that there are a few.</span><i><br /></i>Crofterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10296387385351481716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7643824985666545739.post-40193141030784119172022-07-13T16:36:00.000+02:002022-07-13T16:36:04.109+02:00Dry, and dry again<p> <span style="font-family: verdana;">It's hot and dry at the Croft:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY-b-KO7kdUe2jjx5jikeenikDJEeEaWMoNG24pMBMksvuBBaOZIDhOva6GATwNCyKk-0OT3NqwIq6zlTdXviVXKxKDcjdEPRLOt1iKsAfHNzxS2OpcabFTdG5Kux-jdRKWj6qeTsMzQOQKHM5Bju1zUNbuFOs_65srHNvcX-qIAZrv4XfdF47dGZfWQ/s4608/Drought%20in%20Camelot%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY-b-KO7kdUe2jjx5jikeenikDJEeEaWMoNG24pMBMksvuBBaOZIDhOva6GATwNCyKk-0OT3NqwIq6zlTdXviVXKxKDcjdEPRLOt1iKsAfHNzxS2OpcabFTdG5Kux-jdRKWj6qeTsMzQOQKHM5Bju1zUNbuFOs_65srHNvcX-qIAZrv4XfdF47dGZfWQ/s320/Drought%20in%20Camelot%20(2).JPG" width="320" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">All burnt and brown<br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The
grasses have all died as have most of the flowering plants. The trees
are holding out but the ground-water level is dropping, so they too will
start to suffer. At 3pm today the thermometer read 35ºC and it has been
like that for days. The forecast says it will stay like this for at
least the next ten days, maybe longer.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">For
days, and for years, because this is the second summer in a row with
low, low rainfall. So far this year we have had 211mm of rain (211
litres per square metre). By the end of July last year we had had 249mm,
but both are more than 33% below the average for the first seven months
of the year, 377mm.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" height="261" 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have started looking into getting water delivered, because our well is
showing signs of distress. So far it's holding out, but for how long?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">All
of this is - of course - a precursor of the life we are going to have
to lead as the climate emergency hits. Extreme temperatures - and the
associated risks of forest fire - and resource shortages, starting with
water.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">Places
like Montseny will be the canaries in our climate coal mine - crying
out as the climate crisis strikes, warning us about the limits of
growth, of consumption and of greenhouse gas emissions. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">Will our leaders listen? Will we, humanity, listen?</span></div>Crofterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10296387385351481716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7643824985666545739.post-56041193287179334842021-05-17T17:57:00.003+02:002021-05-17T17:57:50.924+02:00Bugs and birds<p> I've seen a couple of beautiful bugs in the last week, as the Spring weather (wet, but warmer) has come in. As always, my bug identification is rubbish, so I guess that these are both beetles, Coleoptera, but can only guess at the family. This one might be a Tiger Beetle (<i>Cicindellidae </i>family), but equally it might not:</p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-EWHEpN80uA8QOUj-9GjfM9IN7qKaonNAogXfxoR8FgeUOAMSWdfI5kXE1r392WEGU1rZIxpokL0bH36FuOQmm8XjwNyxzHRmCr9bNX5dcScJaW-QdkQ4Bi2-nh4jvLfjK_30xaKWYG15/s2048/Tiger+beetle+poss.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-EWHEpN80uA8QOUj-9GjfM9IN7qKaonNAogXfxoR8FgeUOAMSWdfI5kXE1r392WEGU1rZIxpokL0bH36FuOQmm8XjwNyxzHRmCr9bNX5dcScJaW-QdkQ4Bi2-nh4jvLfjK_30xaKWYG15/s320/Tiger+beetle+poss.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beetle, feeling waspish<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p>And this one could be a Leaf Beetle (<i>Chrysomelidae </i>family) but equally could be one of the other zillion species of bug. Either way, she or he is a beautiful metallic gold colour.<br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjOe6qo_PwmqQ39M1G2KrIe89Z8-slkePQRCxBxOUjnPzxYHPliPkF_FUX7_evOczvNUBkU2R-YuSbtk7K18qKd8ELUKxSQ8rv30J9yWe6DFmbL3K8HWgf3z7gzz2aARQAd1fbIDh_jOiB/s2048/Leaf+beetle+poss.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjOe6qo_PwmqQ39M1G2KrIe89Z8-slkePQRCxBxOUjnPzxYHPliPkF_FUX7_evOczvNUBkU2R-YuSbtk7K18qKd8ELUKxSQ8rv30J9yWe6DFmbL3K8HWgf3z7gzz2aARQAd1fbIDh_jOiB/s320/Leaf+beetle+poss.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Auric, the bug<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>Some of the bugs are being consumed by the birds, and a pair of Blue tits, <i>Parus caeruleus</i>, have made a nest in the dead tree that supports our washing line. Here is one, bringing a bug back for the babes:</p><p> </p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh9fconWQyo0DtkSruMZYofGu-YiJAwXCnrCby9yk0S9-J4PRXXujYakcKt6pexmfseVrtbwsY_qCmRVO4TyqLZyr9lgqH_AH5IURjr5ieGKy2oKZc4vj6deYa_paEUvey10zkrM7eUcXj/s2048/Blue+tit+on+Washing+Line+tree.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh9fconWQyo0DtkSruMZYofGu-YiJAwXCnrCby9yk0S9-J4PRXXujYakcKt6pexmfseVrtbwsY_qCmRVO4TyqLZyr9lgqH_AH5IURjr5ieGKy2oKZc4vj6deYa_paEUvey10zkrM7eUcXj/s320/Blue+tit+on+Washing+Line+tree.JPG" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Caught in a trophic web<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> </p><p><br /></p>Crofterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10296387385351481716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7643824985666545739.post-36120437347298916412021-05-17T17:46:00.007+02:002021-05-17T17:47:03.245+02:00Where are the Salamanders?<p> I have seen just one salamander (<i>Salamandra salamandra</i>) this Spring - the one I fished out of our irrigation tank in the middle of February. Normally by this time we have seen lots of them, making their way from the river beds into the woods, or vice versa, crossing the track in the dark so that we have to drive at a crawl to avoid hitting them.</p><p> </p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG6cWgj5ZIiLy8vHw-LWubqlcPf7MxvncR9rxjKppo3hiWxXgE9Z9w1cu9ah01ahstMNIWItVaBrmAmtittJhfPLCi7IyTKwx2RH5vuxaKr6v-xLgAGWhRSgQ0x51mBxcaMVT1LRBULxAE/s2048/Salamander+first+in+2021.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG6cWgj5ZIiLy8vHw-LWubqlcPf7MxvncR9rxjKppo3hiWxXgE9Z9w1cu9ah01ahstMNIWItVaBrmAmtittJhfPLCi7IyTKwx2RH5vuxaKr6v-xLgAGWhRSgQ0x51mBxcaMVT1LRBULxAE/s320/Salamander+first+in+2021.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Not sallying out...<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> But not this year. Where are the salamanders?<br /></p>Crofterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10296387385351481716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7643824985666545739.post-43589337603689829222021-05-17T17:42:00.002+02:002021-05-17T17:42:32.137+02:00Sheer nonsense<p> It's shearing time for the sheep, so here is Benbecula, <a href="http://croftingcatalunya.blogspot.com/2011/04/she-lived.html" target="_blank">the sheep who lived</a>, after her Spring haircut. Beligerent as ever, I had to tie her up (just for a few minutes) while I hand-sheared her thick, sticky coat.</p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilOnImkiV-1NjAcKO13HJMTfkhjcaiLrfrEH90uZwn3RLwD-4ThkbPcF8MWhpebxaGJz46W53x3FSN0yn552wXefU3zHri6Ltx21nMT-cOagye_Vl9vZ1AD9ilOmUV2g4oadTOGNyuwWj7/s2048/Shaun+the+Sheep.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilOnImkiV-1NjAcKO13HJMTfkhjcaiLrfrEH90uZwn3RLwD-4ThkbPcF8MWhpebxaGJz46W53x3FSN0yn552wXefU3zHri6Ltx21nMT-cOagye_Vl9vZ1AD9ilOmUV2g4oadTOGNyuwWj7/s320/Shaun+the+Sheep.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You staring at me?</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>She will be more comfortable with the short back and sides, as the weather turns hot.<br /></p><p><br /></p>Crofterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10296387385351481716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7643824985666545739.post-76856123096900744772021-05-17T17:37:00.004+02:002021-05-17T17:37:50.476+02:00Nature, coming in the doorWe've had a lot of nature indoors, over the early Spring here at the Croft.
First this Common Tree Frog, <i>Hyla arborea</i>, came in through the front door.
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0oB55MaewSKjnv1twT-9yXMQz1yBjKFQqcB_IdoWcN_sBgLi5bZ64W68okdBKVPsV-TWP8O7IqtjcFZdDRAXWLrr4yd5C3vSy3H9OPnzj2oIQGlAT9aRA5AF-no-eewOFWLfvWyY-QM67/s4032/1618167970994.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0oB55MaewSKjnv1twT-9yXMQz1yBjKFQqcB_IdoWcN_sBgLi5bZ64W68okdBKVPsV-TWP8O7IqtjcFZdDRAXWLrr4yd5C3vSy3H9OPnzj2oIQGlAT9aRA5AF-no-eewOFWLfvWyY-QM67/s320/1618167970994.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A better glass of frog<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Then this gecko, <i>Tarentola mauritanica</i>, looked stuck (but wasn't, happily) in the kitchen window:
</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZmIgRhGP6j_RBdc26LQ8PP0MuqP4gLCAX5H-r5SplbPMbeyYNAJ08A5XRfrlR2weWssHgH__a4Qnr05gkNnLiarY6WJ7ttDzZSW6g-9KMjqqQDW_rVToXnbKTZd1YRWMqjpdbUfP08QzK/s4032/IMG_20210414_222405.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZmIgRhGP6j_RBdc26LQ8PP0MuqP4gLCAX5H-r5SplbPMbeyYNAJ08A5XRfrlR2weWssHgH__a4Qnr05gkNnLiarY6WJ7ttDzZSW6g-9KMjqqQDW_rVToXnbKTZd1YRWMqjpdbUfP08QzK/s320/IMG_20210414_222405.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nearly in a jamb<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Meanwhile outdoors, but only just, I photographed this young hare (<i>Lepus granatensis</i>) outside the kitchen:</p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz1BE3QzjyLbFwwZLbq6C-tCpozJCji6TXLGfM44WWwuYtQIm3WT1kQ5peqShpv0gSeAmLhXDUIPK5lMVXYR_OkymRcwRTeiBJeCyrHu7Npe-nzG6CoEHuS6tR2aMQq4A_J16aDmxY8-Nh/s4032/IMG_20210415_103504.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz1BE3QzjyLbFwwZLbq6C-tCpozJCji6TXLGfM44WWwuYtQIm3WT1kQ5peqShpv0gSeAmLhXDUIPK5lMVXYR_OkymRcwRTeiBJeCyrHu7Npe-nzG6CoEHuS6tR2aMQq4A_J16aDmxY8-Nh/s320/IMG_20210415_103504.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hare today...<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>And finally, now that Spring has sprung, the lizards (<i>Podarcus muralis</i>) are in love:</p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIm3hQMRXl5YhlftpEVKHxGtN49F1qpXrZHeti1NLpHwGv88W2am3A8GqJDRdBv78ssC7mOtk4B46WshnQCXWCozrCygtRKYa2riiWO3uEMvoAxpZTVf8KV0VXAH8yzIR_7KIshOPz1YIJ/s4032/IMG_20210506_155913.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIm3hQMRXl5YhlftpEVKHxGtN49F1qpXrZHeti1NLpHwGv88W2am3A8GqJDRdBv78ssC7mOtk4B46WshnQCXWCozrCygtRKYa2riiWO3uEMvoAxpZTVf8KV0VXAH8yzIR_7KIshOPz1YIJ/s320/IMG_20210506_155913.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Love story, potted<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>We, <i>homo 'sapiens'</i>, occupy Nature temporarily, and without her permission. As soon as we are gone, Nature will be back in force.<br /></p>Crofterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10296387385351481716noreply@blogger.com0Sant Pere de Vilamajor, 08458, Barcelona, Spain41.7059896 2.391236213.395755763821157 -32.7650138 70.016223436178848 37.5474862tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7643824985666545739.post-53973979156604237012021-01-06T18:56:00.004+01:002021-01-06T18:56:57.403+01:002020 - Full of Fruit<p> <span style="font-family: verdana;">The Gloria storm caused <a href="https://www.blogger.com/#">plenty of damage, </a>but it also irrigated the Croft, and we have benefited throughout the year with better than average fruit harvests.<br /><br /> <br /><br /></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQYAzAA3VuwqZzD_6010EIUOannADMM0qYQH9tN2oEPo2DFjSyFyz2smdcjGMjHtxzsUwoqqDC0SGq9Y4ZpGdA9SK2FW5i_1KlMotFNBPnGfSZVmMLL5FflWUdaCwr_g8ZmZVmx0t-4Drf/s2048/Arbequina+olives.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQYAzAA3VuwqZzD_6010EIUOannADMM0qYQH9tN2oEPo2DFjSyFyz2smdcjGMjHtxzsUwoqqDC0SGq9Y4ZpGdA9SK2FW5i_1KlMotFNBPnGfSZVmMLL5FflWUdaCwr_g8ZmZVmx0t-4Drf/s320/Arbequina+olives.JPG" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Happy to be olive...<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">First, our arbequina olive tree. This cultivar was - <a href="https://www.blogger.com/#">according to Wikipedia</a> - first introduced to Europe from the Ottoman Empire in the seventeenth century by the Duke of Medinaceli. It is named after the village of <a href="http://www.arbeca.cat" target="_blank">Arbeca</a>, in Lleida province. Last year I pruned and cleared around it, and this year it produced lots of wee black arbequina olives. I have stored some in salt solution, and for some I have used a salt-dried olive technique that has worked well.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifcxME6CdfUmX7N4lynq9M6Un9Vgx9ywOu0iOmKhQ2kmyuf6ttLomz9YWHNbADd6Ng1pwLG4A5v5zSpNkxswcC8znPRjCHgnN76-ipnAbL1ZxmJP7wB37Oo2_pmHfnYmie4xTgmrxgM7X_/s2048/Seville+oranges.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifcxME6CdfUmX7N4lynq9M6Un9Vgx9ywOu0iOmKhQ2kmyuf6ttLomz9YWHNbADd6Ng1pwLG4A5v5zSpNkxswcC8znPRjCHgnN76-ipnAbL1ZxmJP7wB37Oo2_pmHfnYmie4xTgmrxgM7X_/s320/Seville+oranges.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Don't call me bitter<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /> The Seville oranges </span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Citrus</i> × <i>aurantium</i> that I planted from seed years ago have, for the first time, given fruit. Yes, just the three oranges you can see in the picture, so a very <i>small</i> jar of marmalade.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7IfI3XDj4nt7r7NgJ-KHw-7GWXs2c1nYZZVPFePn7DDTLsbW85kLyDNudIWl1ocAm5dkOKuVqGarEQT5pTpYg7Vv-TvXlZ0hqfnY3qqBINu-XzoZnYweo7JMra-Xzm_3vO1Cro7ep1GLt/s2048/Saffron+crocus.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7IfI3XDj4nt7r7NgJ-KHw-7GWXs2c1nYZZVPFePn7DDTLsbW85kLyDNudIWl1ocAm5dkOKuVqGarEQT5pTpYg7Vv-TvXlZ0hqfnY3qqBINu-XzoZnYweo7JMra-Xzm_3vO1Cro7ep1GLt/s320/Saffron+crocus.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Making a stamen<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">My neighbour picks and dries the stamens of the saffron crocus - ours grow under one of our fig trees - but it is a mighty job to gather even a few grams of saffron, so I am happy to let the bees enjoy them.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">It is not only the plant kingdom that has done well this year. Our nightjars - </span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Caprimulgus europaeus </i>there are at least three that regularly return to the Croft - hatched successfully. This despite the slightly suicidal method of building a ground nest next to the track, with two hungry dogs passing most days.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUbo6OKghsyS9rcMOAE8bQlx2esizaBb_D1S7Rdpd5kRsFkqPrXBzn9yIUEwpp3r91Dd0yOzAetYyZBSHok9kog1Vt_s5uOog5A5yCxdUh3ukl3dzjDxt3wAeMNJFicDJ0eHa-IcaW0gGm/s2048/Nightjar+nest.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUbo6OKghsyS9rcMOAE8bQlx2esizaBb_D1S7Rdpd5kRsFkqPrXBzn9yIUEwpp3r91Dd0yOzAetYyZBSHok9kog1Vt_s5uOog5A5yCxdUh3ukl3dzjDxt3wAeMNJFicDJ0eHa-IcaW0gGm/s320/Nightjar+nest.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ground floor apartment<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">And while we are on the ground, here is a fertile wee snail making the most of the moist conditions.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFQHvgKrmQf2ZNJDssu4GTFkkub-KALd9UxKRG84Sl_fkQrMEcxpbdjxlPXqBuK98K1NTQkIR6K44Z4ktKKcJp9Gx6UbrfnWQ3bUPkWhr931688KsuDSdSyk_m9MinMU-IRBGqFotx29sj/s2048/Snail+eggs.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFQHvgKrmQf2ZNJDssu4GTFkkub-KALd9UxKRG84Sl_fkQrMEcxpbdjxlPXqBuK98K1NTQkIR6K44Z4ktKKcJp9Gx6UbrfnWQ3bUPkWhr931688KsuDSdSyk_m9MinMU-IRBGqFotx29sj/s320/Snail+eggs.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Slowing your wild oats<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />For next year, I have been clearing more of our olive trees. The target - many years from now - is to harvest 500kg of olives. With that quantity, we could press our own olive oil. Based on 2020's harvest, that's 496kg to go...</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4ixLxQngoEJg322QHNLjEq7LWb0_ZWXAdLQ9thlZRJt1_dYqrGStmqvQlRa_73NuEIIHkpv0DAWpEoGWoY1TTw4MqghFGr_CNYvNKMN6oxqtm5Di5YrrrLF_ukMHxhQJCCOAfaVUPy4AV/s2048/Olive+tree+discovered.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4ixLxQngoEJg322QHNLjEq7LWb0_ZWXAdLQ9thlZRJt1_dYqrGStmqvQlRa_73NuEIIHkpv0DAWpEoGWoY1TTw4MqghFGr_CNYvNKMN6oxqtm5Di5YrrrLF_ukMHxhQJCCOAfaVUPy4AV/s320/Olive+tree+discovered.JPG" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oil have an olive, please<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><br /></span><br /><br /></p>Crofterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10296387385351481716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7643824985666545739.post-10233023430918663212021-01-03T19:26:00.003+01:002021-01-06T18:13:44.978+01:002020 - A bad year for blogs, but a good year for bugs<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>It has been a bad year for blogs, but a good year for bugs.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span> </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>I have not written here since <a href="http://croftingcatalunya.blogspot.com/2020/06/serpent-surprise.html" target="_blank">June</a>, not for lack of motivation, but because life has become busier thanks to this Year of the Virus. <br /><br />The virus has been deadly for far too many humans. But the lockdown has helped nature to thrive, starting with the insects. Here are a few examples:</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><br />First, a remarkably white spider.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQnA1EiZT4VPymCiKlZtIIuxRBj5Ol5TTFsl9SnfpWHafxdx6eTZGFdvVNCGB0HuSutCjHpp0_x-BqgeBSe9gpg99BSCPwHHzwKtZWL2X4o6p8nqft8r8wlUVM-u8rNKzRMQA8AN7hhq_O/s2048/White+Spider.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQnA1EiZT4VPymCiKlZtIIuxRBj5Ol5TTFsl9SnfpWHafxdx6eTZGFdvVNCGB0HuSutCjHpp0_x-BqgeBSe9gpg99BSCPwHHzwKtZWL2X4o6p8nqft8r8wlUVM-u8rNKzRMQA8AN7hhq_O/w320-h240/White+Spider.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">...and the murderer was...Mrs White, in the Conservatory</span><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span> </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>Then - a reassurance for what you are about to read - two pollinators on our enthusiastic <i>Cardus </i>thistle.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span> </span></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOHesbhvSC7pUN34bzLETk35VXJrQxAE4qPaQYjr5Yu6znmuqZCHKdYmMxVFWLYL6dNeONpvZ4cBA-onvC7GZkPBWHH2tsfTfWA5Jpt51XhDMA2Odb6XXujbBW51xBZ0IqJxJpkkt4biWL/s2048/Black+bombus+on+thistle.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOHesbhvSC7pUN34bzLETk35VXJrQxAE4qPaQYjr5Yu6znmuqZCHKdYmMxVFWLYL6dNeONpvZ4cBA-onvC7GZkPBWHH2tsfTfWA5Jpt51XhDMA2Odb6XXujbBW51xBZ0IqJxJpkkt4biWL/s320/Black+bombus+on+thistle.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">This gives me a buzz, honey...</span><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><br /></span></span></span><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>A beautifully camouflaged Hawk moth - I think it may be a <a href="https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/invertebrates/moths/lime-hawk-moth" target="_blank">Lime Hawk moth</a>, </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span><i><span class="field__item">Mimas tiliae</span></i>, on the donkey stable door.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwRYqUtuHohWKf3_EVYYLvB7-KpNaUvScL6XPAyjYDAy_ZGWPHj8VzsZqW3XzO3jjZD3WUZRSY3zLsbqxID6ja8fNFJ0WbhX7dw1PZkb4sl2UUUj_zpao1DsbdWZvUA-zHYG3dcZ2d5t1S/s2048/Hawkmoth.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwRYqUtuHohWKf3_EVYYLvB7-KpNaUvScL6XPAyjYDAy_ZGWPHj8VzsZqW3XzO3jjZD3WUZRSY3zLsbqxID6ja8fNFJ0WbhX7dw1PZkb4sl2UUUj_zpao1DsbdWZvUA-zHYG3dcZ2d5t1S/s320/Hawkmoth.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Green Hawk Down<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /> </span></span><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><br />And now for the bad news. My bees have died, victims of the Asian Hornet, <i>Vespa velutina</i>. Despite my best efforts with a solar-powered electric trap, and netting, the hornets got into the hives and killed all of the occupants.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdmDKGAlQsh81OxL2UwjsSm1qTMNfHpjno4jZAxiLCReqcIL6EHUbnq7RB8NBmkWTTKRc9ns1SK1k8XOGhyphenhyphenILrAap7NOUEiVCD3atIM8ivqiPMm7rJj1VlhpT0r3RS9W6p4qLA0XDFnurV/s2048/Empty+hive.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdmDKGAlQsh81OxL2UwjsSm1qTMNfHpjno4jZAxiLCReqcIL6EHUbnq7RB8NBmkWTTKRc9ns1SK1k8XOGhyphenhyphenILrAap7NOUEiVCD3atIM8ivqiPMm7rJj1VlhpT0r3RS9W6p4qLA0XDFnurV/s320/Empty+hive.JPG" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">To be, or Not to bee</span><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><br /> </span></span></span><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>I found the last hornet, </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span>itself </span></span></span></span>killed</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span> </span></span> by the bees, on the 6th December. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbmW8NkXbZYsfDKKRlRL3M1r6wI9hWeEHs3ssDhsjEnRnv4QI9dfxwH5MrkWkB43x-3nRNElsGHGwaxiJcsJeKlIreFDdlMRqK370UBM7SplSA1d2oFHFaFlOyb9CrBaKbmnXIDW8c_Go0/s2048/Vespa+Velutina+with+bee+remains.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbmW8NkXbZYsfDKKRlRL3M1r6wI9hWeEHs3ssDhsjEnRnv4QI9dfxwH5MrkWkB43x-3nRNElsGHGwaxiJcsJeKlIreFDdlMRqK370UBM7SplSA1d2oFHFaFlOyb9CrBaKbmnXIDW8c_Go0/s320/Vespa+Velutina+with+bee+remains.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">The gory remains</span><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span> </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>I am going to take some time before I start see-keeping again. It's fascinating, but I don't want to risk starting again, until I understand better how to manage this new predator.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span> </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>So 2020 - a bug year..</span></span></span></p>Crofterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10296387385351481716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7643824985666545739.post-3937329604298510362020-06-11T18:21:00.000+02:002020-06-11T18:21:06.432+02:00Serpent Surprise<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So we were sitting at lunch when one of the Crofters noticed something strange about the window. It appeared to be moving, gliding...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">...and then we saw this:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A Ladder snake, <i>Elaphe scalaris</i>, had squeezed in behind the window. She or he was moving too fast to measure, but must have been more than a metre long.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">She was quite insistent on coming in, and even when we had closed the window, kept on trying to get in. She scaled the grape vine outside the kitchen, and seemed to be heading for the roof when I gently picked her up and put her back into the field.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Nature is so close, here at the Croft. If we were to leave, Nature would happily take over.</span><br />
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Crofterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10296387385351481716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7643824985666545739.post-50338086010501558012020-05-25T20:32:00.000+02:002020-05-26T09:35:46.888+02:00Hypodermic murder<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Every time they leave the safety of the hive, the bees are exposed to dangerous, bloody, unforgiving Nature. Fly too high, and the beautiful bee eaters (<i>Merops apiaster</i>) will catch them. Hang around outside the hive, and the imported Asian Hornet (<i>Vespa velutina</i>) will <a href="http://croftingcatalunya.blogspot.com/2018/08/attack.html" target="_blank">capture, and then disect</a> them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But I'd never seen this before. An Assassin Bug, <i>Rhinocoris iracundus</i>, killing a bee, by stabbing it with its hypodermic mouth parts and then - I assume - sucking the insides out like some honeyed cocktail:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> It's rough, out here at the Croft.</span><br />
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Crofterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10296387385351481716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7643824985666545739.post-968118564104278402020-05-25T20:15:00.002+02:002020-05-25T20:34:55.307+02:00Living on Others<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It's all interconnected, is Nature. And here is the perfect illustration; a parasite from the plant world, broomrape (<i>Orobanche </i>sp.). It might be Thistle Broomrape, <i>Orobanche reticulata</i>, but then it might be quite a number of similar but different broomrapes. The lack of any green makes them very obvious, in this year's wet and sunny Spring:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The wet spring has also meant a bloom in funghi, and this, I think, is <i>Tremella mesenterica</i>, growing on a felled oak in the woodlands. In a few years, the funghi will have liquidised the tree, enriching the humus and helping recycle the nutrients back to the new trees already growing around it.</span><br />
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We are alive thanks to these cycles and recycles...<i>ad infinitum</i>.<br />
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Crofterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10296387385351481716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7643824985666545739.post-80573403733126955332020-05-25T19:58:00.000+02:002020-05-29T09:27:32.027+02:00Lockdown Veggies<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We are very lucky to be here at the Croft in these strange times of lockdown and quarantine. Lucky because of the space to move around outside, lucky because we have livestock that require us to get outside, lucky because we are naturally isolated from the outside world, 4km up a dirt track from the village, and lucky because we have helpful, kind, thoughtful neighbours - people who look out for each other in difficult times.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Just before the lockdown, Hester, the daughter of a friend from Cornwall, and her friend Kerry, came to stay for the night before dashing across the border to France, and then back to England.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We devised and then built an experimental raised bed in the vegetable garden, using hazel poles:</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A sticky situation</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> It's been a total success. We planted it with courgettes (zucchini) and they have bloomed, with the fruit just forming now.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">To Marrow is Another Day</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Thanks to brilliant planning by Hester and Kerry (or, possibly, good luck), the bed is 1.4 metres x 1.4 metres - in other words 2 square metres*. So if I'm bored in the lockdown I can measure precisely how much water the plants are getting, by emptying 4 litres into the bed - 2 litres per square metre. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Covid does seem to bring out the obsessive gardener in me...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">*Thanks to my dad, a civil engineer, for a correction here </span></span><br />
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Crofterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10296387385351481716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7643824985666545739.post-49066587365489877402020-01-22T12:42:00.000+01:002020-01-24T18:52:39.263+01:00Glorious Gloria<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Gloria, the storm that is currently passing over Catalonia, has left its mark at the Croft. We've had more rain in one night than we've had since records began (my records, anyway), with 128 litres per square metre (128mm) which is the maximum that my rain meter can read. My neighbour up the track emptied his 45mm rain meter three times during the night, so likely ours ran over. The last rainfall to get near this figure was on 12th September 2006 when we had 122mm.<br />
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The donkeys don't like it: <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jings it's gey dreich here, pal</td></tr>
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...and for the humans, there is currently no way in, or out, except on foot. The track has been washed away, and is currently on the way to the Mediterranean:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sink or swim</td></tr>
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But the house is fine, we've got supplies and plenty of wood to keep us cosy, so nae worries, hen.<br />
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Update</h3>
The storm has gone, leaving us to clear up the remains. The good news is that we now have a beach by the stream, so will be offering sun 'n' sand holidays to anyone who wants them:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Just add sun umbrella and a pink gin</td></tr>
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Crofterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10296387385351481716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7643824985666545739.post-56303945613284671492020-01-19T15:40:00.002+01:002020-01-19T15:40:39.982+01:00Rotten beauty<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It's been an autumn and winter full of fungi. Here are a couple:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A jewelled field mushroom</td></tr>
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This might be a <i>Pleurotacia</i>, but then it might be a lot of other species too. It is a parasite on the stump of a dead pine tree:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gilded gills</td></tr>
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Crofterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10296387385351481716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7643824985666545739.post-74393016757127576002020-01-19T15:36:00.001+01:002020-01-19T15:36:31.487+01:00Sticky end<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This is what happens when you try to raid honey from my hives. You get got:<br />
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I found this hawk moth (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphingidae" target="_blank"><i>Sphingidae</i></a>) corpse when I was cleaning out the hives this winter.</div>
Crofterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10296387385351481716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7643824985666545739.post-30847268947438645112020-01-19T15:31:00.000+01:002020-01-19T15:31:05.103+01:00Beeched Marten<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
We have a Beech Marten <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beech_marten" target="_blank"><i>(Martes foina)</i></a> who takes the occasional chicken. I've seen one - at least her ears - in a night-time photo in my camera trap, but had never seen one close up.<br />
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Until Boxing Day, that is, when an individual who had probably been on a blinder the night before was a wee bit slow to react to the noises of me waking up and letting the dogs out...and so ended up in our persimmon <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diospyros_kaki" target="_blank"><i>(Diospyros kaki)</i></a> tree.<br />
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She (or he, I'm not up to sexing Martens up trees) stayed there all day, disappearing only at night when the dogs were safely shut up. She is welcome at the Croft - I'm sure that it is she, with the owls, that keep the rat population at bay.<br />
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Crofterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10296387385351481716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7643824985666545739.post-46434847485803645262020-01-19T15:20:00.000+01:002020-01-19T15:20:38.745+01:00Salamanders in my Salad Spinner<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
We had a veterinary visit before Christmas, from a vet who is an absolute amphibian admirer. On a wet and blustery night, she headed down to the stream to count salamanders <i>(Salamandra salamandra)</i>. In November there are lots of salamanders moving around...so she picked up a few to photograph them...<br />
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...and then picked up more, and more, until we had fifteen chunky salamanders in the only container with sides that were steep enough to prevent them climbing out - my salad spinner.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We're all in a spin</td></tr>
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Hence the aliterating title, with due respect to <a href="https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Puppy-in-Peril-by-Lucy-Daniels-author/9781408354049" target="_blank">Lucy Daniels</a>, the wonderful children's author of Llama on the Loose, Puppy in Peril and many other aliterating animal titles.<br />
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We photographed the salamanders - not easy, when they are warm and start to move fast - and plan to do a recapture in a month or so. Their patterns are, I think, unique to each individual so we should be able to do a population estimate with a few captures and recaptures. All of the salamanders were returned to their homes after the short spell indoors. <br />
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Crofterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10296387385351481716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7643824985666545739.post-81724856141869008972019-10-19T20:44:00.001+02:002019-10-19T20:44:32.380+02:00Bug Bugged<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">So here's another one, seen today just below the sheep field. This time I can't even guess the Order, let alone the Family. I mean, it might be Diptera - it appears to have two wings (not four), and two short antennae, with a long and dangerous looking mouth-part. But those might be elytra (wing cases) in front of the wings, and that could make it a Coleoptera.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I fear that this bug business could get a bit obsessive...</span><br />
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Crofterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10296387385351481716noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7643824985666545739.post-75322574395097456512019-10-13T17:04:00.001+02:002019-10-13T17:04:50.486+02:00I'm bugged<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Beetle identification is a mystery. The beetle Family - <i>Coleopterae </i>- are so hugely varied, with my insect guidebook noting for example that there are 30,000 species of Leaf Beetle, each different from the other.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I had thought that this bug, found today in the bark of a pine I was chopping up, was a Snout Beetle (<i>Curculionidae</i>), with a mere 41,000 species world-wide to chose from. Wrong again - what I thought was the elongated snout is in fact two chubby antennae. I'm bugged if I know what this is, but if anyone out there can identify her or him, let me know.</span><br />
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Crofterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10296387385351481716noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7643824985666545739.post-62515225944686727212019-10-06T20:24:00.000+02:002019-10-06T20:24:50.232+02:00Klimate Kalendar Kaos<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Climate change is causing chaos here at the Croft.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">It's too warm for a normal October (we've had temperatures over 30º Centigrade) and the plants are reacting by producing flowers in what is officially the Autumn.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">First, the plum tree came into flower - this picture was taken just a few days ago: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> Then the pear tree did the same - this picture was taken yesterday:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The cycle is broken, and there will be obvious effects; my bees will be confused, and so will other pollinators that might try to hatch another brood when their predators have left for warmer climes - for example the Bee Eater, <i>Meriops apiaster</i>, left for Africa a few weeks ago. But there may be other, less obvious effects. As <a href="http://www.creaf.cat/staff/josep-penuelas-reixach" target="_blank">Dr. Josep Peñuelas at CREAF</a>, Catalonia, showed in 2009, the volatile gasses emitted by the plants could feed back into a climate change loop, potentially accelerating the climate crisis.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The ants are our annual clock. The winged alates (the ants would probably say "wingèd"...) emerge each year to mate and form new colonies. As the <a href="https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/when-why-winged-ants-swarm-nuptial-flight.html" target="_blank">Natural History Museum</a> points out in its excellent website, ants do not always swarm on the same day each year, but rather across a season.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">October is late for ant swarms...and I spotted no swallows or swifts in the sky catching the alates. The swallows and swifts have gone south, too early.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The climate emergency creates collateral damage all over Nature. We, <i>Homo "sapiens"</i>, could stop that. Will we?</span><br />
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Peñuelas, Josep, This Rutishauser, and Iolanda Filella. ‘Phenology Feedbacks on Climate Change’. <i>Science</i> 324, no. 5929 (15 May 2009): 887–88. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1173004">https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1173004</a>.</div>
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Crofterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10296387385351481716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7643824985666545739.post-25068501374915615352019-10-06T19:20:00.001+02:002019-10-06T20:26:48.206+02:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, <br /><br />And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siphonaptera_(poem)" target="_blank"><i>ad infinitum.</i></a></span></b> <br /><br /> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And so, it turns out, do fungi. <br /><br />Here's a fungus, photographed yesterday in the field (we call it “Camelot” because our friend Artur helped to create it) that the donkeys are using. Either its own spores have germinated, or it has another fungus biting it on the back.</span><br />
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