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Common blue butterfly

Day 352 #365DaysWild

Buffeted by the wind, a common blue butterfly anchored to a ribwort plantain flower.

Birds foot trefoil is an important larval food plant for common blues. 

Birds foot trefoil beginning to flower

The meadow has some trefoil, but the small orchard meadow has none.

We have a plan and so this defecit will, I hope, soon be sorted...

Seedling trefoil just moving
from cotyledon leaves