02-08-2009, 06:24 PM
Here are two reasons to leave ragwort alone...
And I thought cinnabar moths had disappeared form our area!
And I thought cinnabar moths had disappeared form our area!
02-08-2009, 06:34 PM
Congrats mudskipper i love the Cinnabar moth catepillars pic.
02-08-2009, 09:31 PM
I'm with you Mudskipper.
02-08-2009, 09:42 PM
Hi all
got a few photo's of cinnabar and thier larvae today will post later. ragwort not good for some animals but doesn't mean its a bad plant, and we can blame our use of trains for the spread of oxford ragwort.
got a few photo's of cinnabar and thier larvae today will post later. ragwort not good for some animals but doesn't mean its a bad plant, and we can blame our use of trains for the spread of oxford ragwort.
02-08-2009, 09:53 PM
Lots of poisonous plants in the UK.
Eating this one has obviously very nasty consequences for livestock but they will avoid the plant unless there is nothing else to eat. Due to negative publicity people go out and pull it up and leave it on the ground where it because a much greater risk. Other species (e.g. Marsh Ragwort) also get wrongly identified and targeted.
Of course a good read of the Ragwort Act is always recommended.............
SCR
Eating this one has obviously very nasty consequences for livestock but they will avoid the plant unless there is nothing else to eat. Due to negative publicity people go out and pull it up and leave it on the ground where it because a much greater risk. Other species (e.g. Marsh Ragwort) also get wrongly identified and targeted.
Of course a good read of the Ragwort Act is always recommended.............
SCR
02-08-2009, 10:05 PM
South Coast Ranger Wrote:
Lots of poisonous plants in the UK.
Eating this one has obviously very nasty consequences for livestock but they will avoid the plant unless there is nothing else to eat. Due to negative publicity people go out and pull it up and leave it on the ground where it because a much greater risk. Other species (e.g. Marsh Ragwort) also get wrongly indentified and targeted.
Of course a good read of the Ragwort Act is always recommended.............
SCR
Eating this one has obviously very nasty consequences for livestock but they will avoid the plant unless there is nothing else to eat. Due to negative publicity people go out and pull it up and leave it on the ground where it because a much greater risk. Other species (e.g. Marsh Ragwort) also get wrongly indentified and targeted.
Of course a good read of the Ragwort Act is always recommended.............
SCR
we have quite a lot of ragwort growing around our area especially on the sand dune areas. Only a problem for livestock but must admit there is a lot of scaremongering associated with ragwort and has was stated by SCR, and there are several different species. wild animals are taught not to eat such plants but domesticated animals have their diet supplemented and taught by by patents to avoid such species.
03-08-2009, 06:19 AM
Unfortunately, there are more consequences to ragwort than meet the eye. Quite a few horses have died - and a very horrible death too - from eating hay gathered from grassland in which there was ragwort. Horsiculturists (in the modern countryside there are horticulturists, agriculturists and increasingly, horsiculturists!) are these days advised to actually inspect fields before agreeing to buy hay, to check that they are ragwort free.
While it is an important food plant for some species of insect, particularly the cinnabar, it must be understood that the presence in foodstuff can be deadly.
While it is an important food plant for some species of insect, particularly the cinnabar, it must be understood that the presence in foodstuff can be deadly.
03-08-2009, 12:58 PM
really nice pics
03-08-2009, 05:41 PM
wild canon Wrote:
Unfortunately, there are more consequences to ragwort than meet the eye. Quite a few horses have died - and a very horrible death too - from eating hay gathered from grassland in which there was ragwort. Horsiculturists (in the modern countryside there are horticulturists, agriculturists and increasingly, horsiculturists!) are these days advised to actually inspect fields before agreeing to buy hay, to check that they are ragwort free.
While it is an important food plant for some species of insect, particularly the cinnabar, it must be understood that the presence in foodstuff can be deadly.
While it is an important food plant for some species of insect, particularly the cinnabar, it must be understood that the presence in foodstuff can be deadly.
you are right wild canon but it is all about awareness of the facts and taking a balanced approach
04-08-2009, 09:22 PM
wild canon Wrote:
Quite a few horses have died - and a very horrible death too - from eating hay gathered from grassland in which there was ragwort
As has already been said, there are many poisonous plants. Anyone who grazes livestock where there is a hazard is at fault. But some real stupidity occurs in relation to ragwort, like council workers pulling it out of road verges where it can do no harm (because of public hysteria), while over the wall there is livestock grazing in a field where the ragwort is allowed to remain.
I think if it were advertised that cabbage white butterflies are really Martians in disguise, half the population would want them wiped out.