Exclusion of birds from bilberry stands: impact on insect larval density and damage to bilberry.
It was as blue as a bilberry, which should perhaps have been a warning to us of what was coming.
They had never seen bilberries growing wild before, and we could not get them away from them.
The only even relatively high count found on the grass, heather, lichen, or bilberry that was tested was on heather that came from precisely the same part of the moor.
The price of bilberries or whimberries has been controlled because of the large number of complaints last season that they were being sold in retail shops at quite excessive prices.
Bracken spraying produces new areas of heather, and bilberry and is of benefit to all types of wildlife as well as the grouse.
Typical heathland vegetation and wildlife are present consisting of heather, bracken, gorse, rabbit, game birds, blackberry, bilberry and raspberry.
With plant life dominated by heather and bilberry, the reserve provides important habitat for ground-nesting birds.
