Orchid devastation.
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| Bumblebee Orchid (Ophrys bombyliflora). |
Jayne and I had a tour of the garden centres around Cabra and came back via Embalse de Iznajar where in past years I have found hundreds of Orchids of many different species but when I we arrived today I was very disappointed that the area was being ripped to bits by several logging vehicles and most of the trees had been felled.
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| Bumblebee Orchid (Ophrys bombyliflora). |
None of this years
Dark Spider (Ophrys incubacea),
Woodcock (Ophrys scolopax),
Small Woodcock (Ophrys picta),
Giant (Himantoglossum robertiana),
Mirror (Ophrys speculum) and
Sawfly Orchids (Ophrys tenthredinifera) survived and I only found 1x
Yellow Bee (Ophrys lutea), 9x
Naked / Italian Man (Orchis italica) and 6 of the hundred or so
Bumblebee Orchids (
Ophrys bombyliflora) as the rest were crushed under the trees.
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| Naked / Italian Man (Orchis italica). |
1 comment:
Orchids....i know how you feel....here in Tunbridge Wells the council have, for several years, mown down some orchids on a small piece of grass/verge....i decided to rescue them a while back but by the time i had got there the guy had been and managed to mow them down apart from the remains of one which now lives in my garden. i went back last year but none had appeared....i assume the council had finally killed them off...but will look again this year....just in case....
graham
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