June’s wildlife reports highlight a new potential biological control agent for New Zealand Pigmyweed, the discovery of Britain’s second Winter Damselfly at Wildern LNR in Hampshire, a small colony of Giant Orchids in Oxfordshire, the usual updates on bats, bryophytes and moths, and much more.
November’s wildlife reports feature the sighting of a Snowy Owl in the Cairngorms, the possible establishment of the Praying Mantis in Oxfordshire, a brand new seaweeds report, the usual updates on flowering plants, molluscs, lichens and much more.
April’s wildlife reports highlight the breeding success of the Kidney-spot Ladybird in Scotland, washed-up skate and shark egg cases, the threats facing Large Atlantic Pocket-moss on the River Dart, the usual update on birds, mammals, flowering plants, and much more.
August’s wildlife reports highlight the Mammal Society’s new Atlas of Mammals of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, a surprising early emergence of Natterjack toadlets in Hampshire, a colour variation found in the Golden-eye lichen, the usual round-up on micro-moths, marine life, arachnids, and much more.
October’s wildlife reports feature an exciting sighting of the Common Nighthawk, illegal Freshwater Pearl Mussel poaching, a distinctive gall that can be found on Holm Oak leaves, a round up of the latest news on lichens, flowering plants, flies, and much more.
April’s wildlife reports cover the successful refloating of a stranded Humpback Whale near Oban, numerous sightings of Vagrant Emperor dragonflies brought here on southerly winds in February and March, an update from the UK Moth Recorders meeting, round-ups of news on birds, reptiles and amphibians, lichens and butterflies, and much more.
August's wildlife reports feature an objection to a proposed golf course at Coul Links from the British Lichen Society, potential taxonomic changes for the large house spiders, the recording of Red-belted Clearwing at new sites in Norfolk, the usual round-ups of news on plants, beetles, marine life, and much more.
December's wildlife reports cover the influx of Hawfinches, the emergence of a snake fungal skin disease, the rediscovery of Bladderseed in Devon, round-ups of news on flies, lichen, dragonflies, and much more.
April’s wildlife reports highlight the high numbers of cetacean strandings in Ireland, a new record of the Greater Semi-slug in Essex, a search for lichens on islands, the usual reports on birds, plants, freshwater life, and much more.
August’s wildlife reports feature a project surveying the Brown Hare, an update on the reintroduced White-faced Darter, the rarest spider in the world, the usual round-ups of news on birds, flies, plants, and much more.
Their faces screwed up a little and we could see that they did not really like the taste: it was a little bitter. Fortunately, the Wild Asparagus spears which we fed to the Biodiversity Action Plan group from cultivated plants were only small, and the group much preferred the larger, scrumptious Garden Asparagus plants which
