Seed harvesting at Langley Field Local Nature Reserve with Buglife

Join Telford & Wrekin Council and Buglife for a quick glimpse into the volunteering that has been taking place at Langley Fields Local Nature Reserve as part of Get the Marches Buzzing! Last summer, Buglife were joined by local volunteers to harvest Bird’s Foot Trefoil (Lotus corniculatus) seed to sow on another restoration site. Not only is Bird’s Foot Trefoil a brilliant nectar and pollen source for pollinators but it is the foodplant of the Dingy Skipper (Erynnis tages) caterpillars, a rare, declining butterfly found in Telford. By spreading seed on another site nearby, we are hoping this butterfly will colonise the habitat there and their population will increase. If you’d like to know more about the Dingy Skipper - butterfly-conservation.org/si...
With thanks to Telford & Wrekin Council for allowing us to share their video.
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ℹ️ Get the Marches Buzzing! is an exciting Buglife partnership project which will see the restoration of 57 hectares of habitat through Shropshire and North Herefordshire, including areas critical to the survival of the Dingy Skipper and Bilberry Bumblebee; increasing the area and quality of pollinator-friendly wildflower habitat across the counties.
Find out more & get involved - www.buglife.org.uk/projects/get-the-marches-buzzing/
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Get the Marches Buzzing! is kindly funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, Severn Trent Water, Millichope Foundation, Telford & Wrekin Council, Milkywire.
This video is presented under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.