| 21. | "' Satyrion "'is also a name for ragwort and ancient aphrodisiac made from it.
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| 22. | The Scots sometimes refer to the noxious ragwort, as " Stinking Billy " in memory of the infamous Duke.
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| 23. | Without doubt the most common of those species that are totally reliant on ragwort for their survival is the cinnabar moth.
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| 24. | While the landscape has very few trees, the fertile soil supports a wide variety of wild flowers including Patagonian ragwort.
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| 25. | Females can lay up to 300 eggs, usually in batches of 30 or 60 on the underside of ragwort leaves.
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| 26. | The same applies to New Zealand, where farmers sometimes bring in helicopters to spray their farms if the ragwort is too widespread.
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| 27. | Besides the fact that ragwort is very attractive to such a vast array of insects, some of these are very rare indeed.
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| 28. | The ragwort was their transport and every one of them picked a plant, sat astride and arrived in Ireland in an instant.
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| 29. | In New Zealand the larvae have been observed feeding on the naturalised weed, ragwort ( " Jacobaea vulgaris " ).
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| 30. | Oddie explains how Oxford ragwort has made its way to a wall in Liverpool from Mount Etna ( via the Oxford Botanical Gardens ).
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