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Hellybootwader

@Hellybootwader@mastodon.scot

Based in Fife. Background in Botany/Plant Science. Involved in community gardens and growing food at home. Moving towards more perennial veg to try and get crops whatever the weather variations.
Trying to do what I can to live sustainably.
Currently working on habitat restoration/biodiversity and community food growing.
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Alt: header is a bush vetch flower with greenery in the background. Profile pic is a close up of a Sarracenia purpurea flower.

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Hellybootwader, to random
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Fungus on a piece of mossy wood in the garden
Edited as fungus name was given in comments as Lycogala epidendrum
#mosstodon #mushtodon #fungi

compost, to gardening
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I have a question for experts in Roses.

The leaves of my roses were fine before I started to deadhead the dying roses.

After doing this I noticed caterpillars ate the leaves.

My question is: does deadheading the roses attract the caterpillars? If yes what should be done about it?

@gardening

Hellybootwader,
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@compost if the holes in the rose leaves were like someone had cut a circle out of them, then congratulations- you’ve got leafcutter bees using them.
If not and you can see the caterpillars- they need to eat too.
As someone said, if nothing is eating plants in your garden, it is not part of the ecosystem.
If they are doing only a bit of damage the roses will be ok. If it’s lots, hopefully whatever eats the caterpillars will be along soon.

Hellybootwader,
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@compost caterpillars usually stay on whatever they are eating - so if it was that, I would expect to see them on the rose leaves. Usually near the cut edges.
If it is the leaf cutter bees- they take circles of leaf or petals to make a cocoon(?) for their larvae to develop in.
Maybe they have a nest site nearby, that would be exciting!

Hellybootwader, to random
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Garlic mustard, in flower just now, one of the food plants of the orange tip butterfly (we’ve been seeing lots of those about this past week)
Taken on a windy day this week in Fife.

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Hellybootwader, to gardening
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We’re doing no mow May again and the Daisy flowers in the back garden are enjoying it.

Hellybootwader, to Bloomscrolling
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Saxifrage flowers growing on our planted rock wall

Hellybootwader, to random
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Well hello little fungus gnat…
I’m very friendly.

Hellybootwader, to Scotland
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Rain coming in from the South, looking over the Tay River.
#River #landscape #phonePhoto #Scotland

Hellybootwader, to Bloomscrolling
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Bluebells and greater stitchwort at the side of the Fife Coastal Path today

Hellybootwader, to random
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steely_glint, to random
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Look who I met having a rest in the garden.

Hellybootwader,
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@steely_glint ooh an Angle shades I think (assuming Uk based and that I have not got it totally wrong)
They are so pretty

Hellybootwader, to Bloomscrolling
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And later today I saw a male holly blue butterfly! Couldn’t get a decent photo with the wings open but was very excited that it was the second Holly blue in one day (a new record for me) the first had bigger dark patches so I could tell was not just the same butterfly coming round again.
I may have chased it around for a while before getting a close up photo on the Centaurea flower.
#HollyBlue #Butterflies #naturePhoto #Bloomscrolling

A far away photo of a blue butterfly with small dark patches in the upper wings. It is resting on a branch amongst dock leaves

Hellybootwader, to random
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Delighted to get a proper look at the holly blue again this year. It’s only the 3rd year of being recorded in the area.
A comma and a male orange tip also visited the garden this morning.

anathema_device, (edited ) to random
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Okay, I’m back. Sort of. I’m suffering from back pain from hell, so touching grass is almost impossible right now, but doomscrolling has lost a lot of its appeal even with just a few days off.

You’ll probably see fewer posts from me. I’ve decided reposts are probably not worth it since I figure most people have them turned off.

I really don’t know why I’m telling you all this since I’m not a train and you don’t need to know my schedule :)

Hellybootwader,
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@anathema_device hope your back eases soon.

CrypticMirror, to Onlyfans
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Welp, just slathered another load of antiseptic cream on my foot. I think it is safe to say that I wouldn't be getting any #OnlyFans subscribers based on the state of it right now.

Why does even mild walking exercise, not even jogging, result in such horrible blisters? I do everything right. Well fitting, non cheap, walking boots, cushioned socks, building up from three miles to six-even, and yet...

I tell you, all this healthy exercise will be the :flan_reaper: of me yet.

Hellybootwader,
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@CrypticMirror the blisteeze? (Compeed brand maybe) plasters that you warm up and stay on for a few days till your skin heals were fantastic when I got a blister and had to walk the next day. Expensive but so helpful.

Hellybootwader,
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@CrypticMirror
It is the pixie hat.
Once the pixie (mischief maker) puts it’s hat on the thing you are looking for you can no longer see it, even if it is in plain sight.
The hat will be removed once you no longer need the item.
At least that’s how it seems to work in this house

anathema_device, to random
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might be a good time for me to spend a few days offline. I’m getting into rows with toxic people and that never ends well. See you next week ❤️

Hellybootwader,
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@anathema_device hope you have a good weekend

NatureMC, to animation
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Preparing for voluntary service at our #culturalHeritage centre & #museum. On Sundays, we have a table with women who do #handicrafts and chat. This is targeted #animation so that people become curious, ask questions and watch. And learn more about our centre. Most of the women #embroider, I show #VisibleMending. Other colleagues give guided tours, baked cake, serve in the cafeteria and explain hot #chocolate today. There is a lecture and a special exhibition about chocolate.

#volunteering

Hellybootwader,
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@NatureMC in a lovely piece of synchronicity, I was reading this post when my nephew messaged me asking about visible mending tips.

Hellybootwader, to random
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A fungi Friday find spotted today in Fife
#Fungi #mushtodon

Hellybootwader, to random
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It’s great to see headlines like this, but hard to square it with the ever increasing rate of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere

“UK greenhouse gas emissions fell 5.4% in 2023”

https://phys.org/news/2024-03-uk-greenhouse-gas-emissions-fell.html

Hellybootwader, to random
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This is the current height of my Scottish primrose flower. Not much taller than the moss capsules. Grown from seed in my garden, only found in the wild in the north of Scotland.

Hellybootwader, to random
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I have a pot which is now full of moss ready to release spores.
I’ll keep the pot to see if any of the Scottish primrose seeds I sprinkled in it last year end up germinating, this way I get pretty moss too.

Hellybootwader, to gardening
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Wondering about recording all the food we eat that we have grown, foraged or harvested ourselves.
I did it a couple of years ago and found it was good to see how much we did provide for ourselves & was sometimes a reminder to check the freezer.
If you’re not interested -Feel free to mute as I’ll try and remember to add it each time.
Join in if you fancy.

Hellybootwader,
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@afewbugs @Pollinators
Jules, you got me wondering where I heard it & I’ve been looking up my books.
The ‘bread & cheese’ seems to be the leaves only in the hedgerow handbook - Adele Nozedar and in Flora Britannica - Richard Mabey
There is so much lore around hawthorn trees, and is the commonest tree mentioned in Anglo-Saxon charters and boundary descriptions.
Thanks for prompting me to go check and rediscover all this info.
Don’t bring the flowers in! Terrible bad luck.

Hellybootwader,
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@NatureMC @afewbugs @Pollinators there were a few suggestions in Flora britannica about the smell being cloying, some suggestion that it might indicate you were Catholic (when it was forbidden after the Reformation) and that some of the chemicals are the same as those released by corpses!
Beltane/Mayday celebrations seemed to have a pass for the flowers, and they were used for garlands (more outside maybe?)

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