Eriophorum Angustifolium Puns

The Large Heath, or Manchester Argus

The Large Heath Butterfly, Coenonympha tullia, also locally known as the Manchester Argus, is mainly found in wet boggy moorland areas of northern England and Scotland, with a few isolated colonies in Ireland, Wales and Southern England.

They can be found in at least two locations in the Forest of Bowland area and the butterfly is under close observation at the moment due to its vulnerability and it’s status as an indicator species, they are on the wing from around June to August and have an erratic flying pattern, flitting low on the moors between the rushy tussocks and clumps of heather .

Identification

This medium-sized butterfly can be very hard to identify, and at first glance can be mistaken for a Meadow Brown or Ringlet, but there are several ways to differentiate it, one is that it always rests with its wings closed, and unlike other butterflies can be seen flying in overcast weather, as long as the ambient air temperature is above 14°C.

It’s wingspan is about 3 to 4 cm and they have irregularly shaped white streaks on the underside of their wings, with 2 to 6 distinct ringed eyespots on underside of their hindwings, the number and size of these eyespots are one of the things that makes identification difficult. It has been found that there is a strong correlation between the number and size of spots on different forms of the Large Heath and the total of sunshine hours in June and July, when the adults are about and flying.

This has found to be because in summers with more hours of sunshine, or in warmer, southern parts of the country, the adults are much more active and fly more frequently, and this makes them more obvious to attacks by predatory birds, in particular [Meadow Pipits](https://www.reddit.com/r/ForestofBowland/comments/o3c4dq/the_meadow_pipit/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&a

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

Buenosdillas

They’re on standbi

Pilot on me!!

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

When I got home, they were still there.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

I won't be doing that today!

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You take away their little brooms

This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

There hasn't been a post all year!

Why

It’s pronounced “Noel.”

After all his first name is No-vac

What, then, is Chinese rap?

Edit:

Notable mentions from the comments:

• Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits

• French/Finnish art

• Country/Canadian rap

• Chinese/Country/Canadian rock

• Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap

Cotton grass , Eriophorum angustifolium, is a perennial, meaning re-occuring year after year, plant native to the blanket bogs of the British isles and found all over the Bowland fells. It often covers large expanses of moorland turning them white with its characteristically cotton-like seed heads, which can be an amazing sight when they flower in the height of summer.

It is a member of the Sedge family, all of which resemble grasses in some way but are differentiated by the sharp edges on the stems, botanists have a saying for this; “sedges have edges” and is also known as ‘bog cotton’.

The seed heads of Cotton grass grow about 40cm high on the plant and produce fine white hairs which are attached to the edges of the sedge, these will sit, waiting, on the seed head until there is a sufficiently strong enough breeze to lift them and carry them further afield to germinate. The days when this happens are usually dry and warm with a firm breeze and it can be a very magical and timeless experience to walk waste high through the rushes across the moors when the air is full of thousands of white downy seeds lifting off and drifting over the horizon.

The seed heads also waveand bow with the wind and usually the places they grow are not parts of the moor that you will walk across if you can avoid it as Cotton grass prefers very boggy moors with acidic soils, the type of nutrient poor, waterlogged bogs that Sphagnum moss and Sundews also like.

The downy seed heads of Cotton grass are a favourite food of several upland species, Black Grouse , which used to be native to Bowland but have been absent since the late 90s, will gather to gorge themselves on the seed heads, venturing out far from their usual woodland territories on to the open moors, if their reintroduction to Bowlands fells works this should be a common sight once again.

Several species of insect also rely upon Cotton grass as a food plant, the

There hasn't been a single post this year!

(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)

Nothing, it just waved

Him: I can explain everything!

(It's his best joke yet I think)

Bob

Nothing, he was gladiator.

So that I could frequently say, "I am going to walk 5 miles now."

Edit: My most popular post on Reddit! 😀 Thank you for the awards.

Just to clarify, 12345678

Me grabbing a soda from my (what I thought was) half full 12pk...

Notices there's only 2;

Me: "Awe man... This is a damn bird box!" Her: "What the hell does that mean?!" Me: (Pulls both cans out & shows them to her) "It's only got Toucans."

I'm not ashamed to admit the look on her face was glorious.

The Large Heath, or Manchester Argus

The Large Heath Butterfly, Coenonympha tullia, also locally known as the Manchester Argus, is mainly found in wet boggy moorland areas of northern England and Scotland, with a few isolated colonies in Ireland, Wales and Southern England.

They can be found in at least two locations in the Forest of Bowland area and the butterfly is under close observation at the moment due to its vulnerability and it’s status as an indicator species, they are on the wing from around June to August and have an erratic flying pattern, flitting low on the moors between the rushy tussocks and clumps of heather .

Identification

This medium-sized butterfly can be very hard to identify, and at first glance can be mistaken for a Meadow Brown or Ringlet, but there are several ways to differentiate it, one is that it always rests with its wings closed, and unlike other butterflies can be seen flying in overcast weather, as long as the ambient air temperature is above 14°C.

It’s wingspan is about 3 to 4 cm and they have irregularly shaped white streaks on the underside of their wings, with 2 to 6 distinct ringed eyespots on underside of their hindwings, the number and size of these eyespots are one of the things that makes identification difficult. It has been found that there is a strong correlation between the number and size of spots on different forms of the Large Heath and the total of sunshine hours in June and July, when the adults are about and flying.

This has found to be because in summers with more hours of sunshine, or in warmer, southern parts of the country, the adults are much more active and fly more frequently, and this makes them more obvious to attacks by predatory birds, in particular [Meadow Pipits](https://www.reddit.com/r/ForestofBowland/comments/o3c4dq/the_meadow_pipit/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&a