The adder and the bee.

 

Rather than a post about the witnessing of an interaction between an Adder and a Bee this is simply an update about a population of two notable species that occur in the wider Blaenavon industrial landscape.

 

 

Adders Tongue Fern can be found throughout this landscape, some growing in profusion from within bare coal spoil others from their more traditional semi- improved grassland habitat. This is a population that occurs on the lower slopes of re-profiled coal spoil at Cefn garn yr erw, with over 100 plants growing in a tight cluster.

Bee Orchid is a another species that occurs frequently and can been found on path and roadsides as well as in grassland habitats. More recently I've noted a number or colour variants. These of the green/yellow variant chlorantha were found from within grassland at Garn Lakes Local Nature Reserve (LNR).