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Mosaic Habitat Management at Common Wood
Our summer workday at Common Wood had a focus on clearing bracken encroachment for the benefit of Marsh Fritillary butterflies. These threatened butterflies require areas of flower rich wet grassland, called rhos pastures, with a plentiful supply of devil’s-bit scabious, which is the food plant of their caterpillar. One of six fritillary species found on…
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