Always learning...

Tuesday brought another sunny National Cycle Network volunteer workday - removing some stronger ruderal plants that were taking over a wildflower area on NCN768 at Tillicoultry ("near Stirling" :)). Determined to learn a new species, I relied on my ecologist colleague to point out the difference between dock and burdock...both being big-leaved and insanely hard to get out the ground without snapping the root. But burdock was hairier underneath, with rhubarby stringy stems and cabbagey young leaves. Which saved me trying to identify the fat white beetle grub that made an appearance too...