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During the day, temperatures had climbed to 30 degrees. By 8.00 pm the sun was low in a cloudless sky and a raking light pierced flowers of wood sage and yellow lady's bedstraw, Floral motifs of limestone grassland in late June. Thistles were coming into flower, a source of nectar for painted ladies and a food plant for its caterpillars, and knapweed which is a little later. But the ground around the Mushroom Shelter is bare of flowers so what was the attraction?