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The corner of the bank by the phone towers is  thick with comfrey, an especial favourite of  bumble bees.  There are also good patches of white dead nettles, which they like.  

True stinging nettles provide a nursery bed for the caterpillars of the tortoishell & other vanessid butterflies.

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A comma and a tortoiseshell butterfly in the spring

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