2014 Bioblitz weekend was held on 31 May and 1 June. With a better start to the year, things were promising to be much better than last year's Bioblitz and the weekend was quite pleasantly warm and sunny at times.
Sadly, although there are bees buzzing around my wildlife planting area most of the time, they all packed up and left for this weekend, so I couldn't report any sightings of these. However, other things did make an appearance.
With regard to wild plants (or weeds) not intentionally planted we had a lovely display on the grass area in the car park. Intentionally we hadn't mown this area until after the weekend and it was covered in daisies, dandelions and clover.
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| Rigwort Plantain |
There was also the usual rigwort plantain on show and a couple of other plants, that I had to search out to other Bioblitzers to identify. . . . .
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| Germander Speedwell |
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| Gallium Aparin |
One, with lovely little blue flowers, was successfully identified on ISpot as Germander Speedwell. The other, was identified via twitter and the BioBlitz team, and was this very stickly Cleaver, Gallium Aparine, which I now found can actually be eaten
With regard to wildlife there were a number of garden worms and ladybirds on show, but additionally in the absence of bees, hoverflies were showing their presence and appeared often throughout the weekend.
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| Hoverfly |
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| Millipede |
Then the wonderful world that can be found underneath garden tubs shouldn't be ignored and this is where I found this millipede. Quite difficult to photofraph as once the tubs are moved everything dashes to find new cover, but I did find one.
All in all it was a fairly successful bioblitz. Now we are in the middle of a beautifully warm and sunny week, the bees are out in force. Very few butterflies as yet, but the buddliea does appear to be about to flower and so this might attract a few. Here's hoping.
