Butterfly Conservation work party: Habitat management for small blue

This work party will be removing regenerating trees by hand and using hand tools to prevent the shading out of kidney vetch, the foodplant of small blue butterfly caterpillars. Please let the organizer know in advance if you plan to attend. Bring lunch and wear old clothes. If you have them, bring work gloves.

The worksite is on the opposite side of the River Dulnain to the nearest road access. If water levels are low, we will be able to walk across the river in welly boots. So please bring welly boots. The work site itself is dry. If the river level is too high for wellies, we will need to walk 1.5 miles to get to the work site, some of this on pathless terrain.

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