Terry's Photographs.
Plenty of ragwort for us to pull.
You need to stop and stretch occasionally.
Or....stop and have a tea break.😀
Wow...did we clear all THAT...!
Burnet moth.
Common Red Soldier Beetle.
Now the summer months are with us it's time for GG to focus its attention on trying to rid the world (well, the Isle of Wight..!) of pesky plants. This week we were up on the top of Brading Down trying to eradicate the dreaded RAGWORT 😒. Prior to the Covid shutdown we were actually starting to make headway at controlling it on the Downs but unfortunately, we are almost back to square one with the dreaded yellow flowers sprouting everywhere 😠. For those of you who are lucky enough not to have come across this problem weed, here is the link to the government guidance Link plus a photograph to help identify it.
Although the forecast was for sunny periods, we were lucky that a couple of sprinkles of rain didn't amount to much. As can be seen from Terry's photographs above, attendance was up on previous sessions (perhaps due to the weather and glorious views across the Island). Such was our progress, we had almost pulled a complete trailer full by tea break - well done Team GG..!
Many thanks to Terry for his excellent photographs.
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