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Frits Bink & Rosita Moenen 2015

Based on: Dagvlinders in de Benelux 2013
Revised and extended
Edited by Sylvain Cuvelier & Peter Russell
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6. Raised bogs
A waterlogged peat mass, receiving rainwater only, that inclines to grow dome shaped.


Upland bog, Hautes Fagnes. Baraque Michel, 19 June 2006.
Photograph: Frits Bink ©.


Upland bog, Hautes Fagnes. Baraque Michel, 13 August 2009.
Photograph: Frits Bink ©.


Valley bog, Baraque Fraiture, Bihain, 19 June 1982.
Photograph: Frits Bink ©.


Floating bog, Reigersplas, a former peat cutting. Dwingeloo, 3 July 1985.
Photograph: Frits Bink ©.


Meerstal, pool on the top of the bog. A remnant of the historical bog
Boertanger Moor. Bargerveen, 11 July 2002. Photograph: Frits Bink ©.


Shrubs indicating places of disturbed soil in the past by draining works.
Hautes Fagnes, 19 June 2006. Photograph: Frits Bink ©.


Remnant of an old plantation, now swamped by the rising water table of
the growing bog. Hautes Fagnes, 19 June 2006. Photograph: Frits Bink ©.

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