In the past few days you may have spotted the news that a 13-spot ladybird, previously though extinct, was discovered here in the Axe Estuary in the wetlands at Seaton recently. The 13-spot ladybird, also known as Hippodamia 13-punctata, was considered extinct in the UK from the early fifties. It was discovered by a student [...]
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Close-up Nature Photos from Keith West
All photos © Keith West. Some more photos from Keith West today. They’ve been sitting in my email for some time so apologies to Keith for not getting them uploaded more quickly! When sending these, Keith did mention some of the equipment he uses: For most of the close-up work I have a perspex box 21X15X3.5 [...]
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Butterfly Survey at Lower Bruckland Farm, East Devon
Phil Parr of Butterfly Conservation was in East Devon at the end of July. He surveyed the Lower Bruckland Nature Area on 27/7/11 and found the following butterflies on the wing: Small white Green veined white Small skipper Common blue Meadow brown Ringlet Gatekeeper Small tortoiseshell Speckled wood Peacock Red admiral Comma Phil also passed [...]
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Butterfly Conservation Survey (2006!)
Just moving some stuff over from the old site and I noticed the Butterfly Survey that Phil Parr of Devon Butterfly Conservation supplied to us in 2006. Okay, so it’s 5 years out of date, but we haven’t had too many posts on butterflies recently so I thought it was about time! You can download [...]
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Dingy Skipper
This photo of a Dingy Skipper butterfly was sent in by Steve on Wednesday (many thanks!). He wrote: Saw this Dingy Skipper at Lower Bruckland Ponds this afternoon. It’s the first one I’ve seen here and the first one I’ve seen locally away from the cliffs at Branscombe and Axmouth. The Dingy Skipper (Erynnis tages) [...]
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