A trip to the beach at Lancing today. Petra enjoys investigating the vegetation.
The most common plant is the sea-kale.
But the horned poppy is here in numbers too.It is very popular with the hover-flies as you can see on the right.
This form of ragwort is also easy to find.I think it is hoary ragwort.The enlarged picture shows the grey down all over.And a stunted form of bittersweet is flowering well.
Both of these are attractive to the hoverflies too. It's difficult to take a picture without a hoverfly in it! The last two flies shown are the migrant hoverfly - eupeodes corollae. The one on the horned poppy is episyrphus balteatus - the marmalade hoverfly. All three are females and both species are flies that migrate to England from the continent - which is probably why they are here on the beach! Just arrived?
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