nepia
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Nice one Mark. What's the wood? The colour is saying walnut but I'm not sure about the grain
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The four air bricks suggest the thing is sealed up, i.e. nothing happens behind the facade. They could be later additions of course. A watering hole, a trough for horses having been long since removed?
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Could she be referring to M.moschata?
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I had that grease nipple extension breakage last year so that seems to be a design issue. A local garden machinery company drilled out for me but didn't have to dismantle the machine to do it! I think the replacement nipple + tube was £12.99!
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The extreme attention seeking there sounds more like Munchausen's than psycopathy doesn't it?
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I've had two M300s since 2012 and never felt the need to 'fettle'! What do you want to do?
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Results! Good ones Beth
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That does look very like brown rot; it took most of last year's tiny plum crop last year and is present in the apples now so we're picking them and burying them. Composting shouldn't be an option unless you can guarantee commercial hot composting temperatures. @Peasgood is probably the man to ask
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GA Groundcare do mine. Good sharpening, great price
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Ha - I haddock inda feeling you'd show up 😆
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Oh cod, he's awake
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A fly parasitic on some species of moth caterpillar. Apparently has some potential for pest control in forestry Here supping on marjoram in Sussex
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Hope @Stubby doesn't wake up and see this; eel be bound to comment
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Those are indeed in remarkable condition. How the heck have you prevented mites eating them? They are the usual suspects for degradation in such collections
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Indeed; the Toto Wolff philosophy - FIFO. Fit In or...
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Recent AJS? I haven't seen a single Painted Lady
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There's a lot of honeysuckle here on our acre and a half so I can dream. It was probably coincidence but did you notice the genus of the pant my garden White Ad was perched on? Lonicera! But just nitida. Actually I've just found that now is egglaying time; the caterpillars overwinter.
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Found a load of old pics, all taken in the low Austrian Alps
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I've seen a handful in this country, more on the Alpine continent. There are pockets of population; Ashtead Common near Epsom has a population, along with Purple Emperors, as the habitat is veteran oak forest with much honeysuckle, the W/Admiral caterpillar's chosen food plant.
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@oakandmaple do you know what the bottom centre specimen is? I recognise it but can't name it The Small Copper is a beautiful little thing.
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My final contributions. First three - butterfly, moth, butterfly - from around and above Chamonix recently. The last one - White Admiral - from the garden three weeks ago.
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Well I got close to this one! A little too close if the focus is anything to go by
