Paul writes: I had a quick check through my insect records and found I have seen over 20 different hoverfly species feeding on Dandelions. Here are two beauties I have seen recently. Unfortunately neither have English names but I think they both deserve to be better recognised. The yellow and black one is Chrysotoxum arcuatum,…
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Wake up Lib Dems!!
Here are two maps. The first looks like the fairly familiar map of signatures for banning driven grouse shooting although to make it a bit more comparable with the second map it is the slightly different ‘% of constituents signing for a ban of driven grouse shooting’. And the second is the LibDem share of…
Moorland balance indeed?
Cartoon by Ralph Underhill
Bank Holiday Monday Book review – 52 European wildlife weekends by James Lowen
This is a simple idea – where would it be good to be in Europe watching wildlife on each weekend of the year? It’s a good idea. This weekend we should be in Matera, southern Italy with Europe’s largest Lesser Kestrel colony and in next year’s European City of Culture. We got here…