On Saturday, January 11, MP for Tiverton and Minehead, Rachel Gilmour, rolled up her sleeves and joined Friends of the Quantocks at The Crowcombe Estate to plant disease-resistant elm trees—an ...
The project specifically aims to support the White-letter Hairstreak and Brown Hairstreak butterflies, both of which rely on elm trees to thrive. By reintroducing these trees, the group hopes to ...
She was thinking of plants such as mistletoe (a harmless native parasite that’s a host plant for purple hairstreak butterflies), epiphytic ferns, mosses, lichens, fungi and numerous microscopic ...