Scales of the female birch catkin caught in a spider's web
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Scales of the female birch catkin caught in a spider's web
Image: © Robin Stott Taken: 21 Aug 2020
The wing mirror of a car parked in Avon Street, Warwick. The car has not moved for a while, a feature of the Covid-19 pandemic. Many more cars have remained parked outside people's homes in the daytime. Owners have had to shield or self-isolate, or have been ill, or have been unable to go to their place of work. Trees have continued with their own lives: the female birch catkin matures through the summer and disarticulates when ripe. The winged seeds go where the air takes them and the catkin scales fall to earth.
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