The presently incumbent #CommonBlue male continues to guard one of the patches of #Bird's-foottrefoil on my #allotment against other Common Blue males.
He has some missing parts to show for his efforts but seems undeterred!
#butterflies

#Lotuscorniculatus is a flowering plant in the pea family Fabacee. Common names include #commonbird's-foottrefoil, #eggsandbacon, #birdsfoot #deervetch, and just #bird's-foottrefoil. It has a wide distribution and is a favored forage for livestock. It’s a nice splash of color. #wildflower

drooping inflorescence for insects but so far this summer, very little sign of more than the odd Honey bee of Buff-tailed bumblebee. Yet the RHS still put it on its list for pollinator-friendly garden plants!
I just don't get it!
Within the space taken up
#14-spotLadybird on #Bird's-footTrefoil

which is a mere 1.7% of ..he mass of the whole Earth!
Within the whole site on which my 5x25m plot is just one of hundreds, there are non-native plants galore, among them the Buddleja is ubiquitous & taking up a lot of space. I always check its purple or blue
#CommonBlue on #Bird's-footTrefoil

When RHS writes in its Plants for Pollinators 'Project' that wild native plants should be the core of the garden, I do hope it means by 'core' the most vital part & also the one that takes up most vegetative space, & not f.ex. the 'core' of Earth,
#PatchworkCarpenterbee on #Bird's-footTrefoil

It was a grey mid-day at the #allotment but then two charismatic friends & a male Blue turned my head towards one of the small golden mounds and I was hooked for a glorious age!
#CommonCarderbee on #Bird's-footTrefoil
#GrowNativePlants4Nature2Thrive
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"Have You Ever Had It Blue?"

male and female Common Blue butterflies nectaring on Bird's-foot Trefoil at Orphir, #Orkney.

🦋 #butterfly #flutterby #insect #lepidoptera #TeamMoth #nature #wildlife #CommonBlue #Birds-footTrefoil

A #Wilke'sMiningBee about to land on #HempAgrimony on my #allotment.
According to #StevenFalk these bees seem to like umbellifers as nectar sources but main reason I see them each year might be relative abundance of #Bird's-foottrefoil, #clovers & #vetches from which they gather pollen.
#Grow4bees

#bird's-foottrefoil #flower #plant #Lotuscorniculatus

#bird's-foottrefoil, #kidneyvetch, #viper'sbugloss, #yarrow & #yellowrattle.

We aim to attract more #bees, #butterflies and #pollinators to increase the #biodiversity of the park.

Let's make our park Green again 💚🌍🌳🌷🐝🌻🪻🦋🌸💚