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Friday, 11 April 2014
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I`ve seen brimstones around a small peat bog just to the SE of Pont Abraham and also some distance to the NW on land that used to be Llannon Common (in the Llwyn-teg area). At the latter area, alder buckthorn (the caterpillars` food plant) can still be found in the hedgerows. Seeing a brimstone is always a `good record` in this part of the world!
ReplyDeleteSpare a thought when at Parc y Scarlets, Trostre for the last colony of the wormwood moth in Carmarthenshire that once occupied the same site, feeding on its namesake plant; later attempts at translocation sadly failed. Some thirty-plus years ago, there were extensive areas of wormwood growing on waste ground, extending all the way over to Trostre Retail Park, but I`m unaware now of any surviving plants in the area, though it occasionally turns up elsewhere. The caterpillars are beautifully patterned.