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Beetle Boy's BioBlog: Species of the Week: Hermit Crabs
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The thoughts and experiences of a young Naturalist! Monday, 6 October 2014. Species of the Week: Hermit Crabs. I am very fond of Hermit Crabs - they're fascinating crustaceans, and I have good memories of watching them scrambling about in my old marine aquarium. Hermit Crabs are a superfamily, known scientifically as the Paguroidea superfamily. They are well known for using empty sea snail shells as a mobile house, but occasionally they will use hollow stones or bits of wood! A Common Hermit Crab. As I h...
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Beetle Boy's BioBlog: January 2014
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The thoughts and experiences of a young Naturalist! Thursday, 30 January 2014. Is It A Slug, Is It A Tadpole? No It's A Sawfly Larvae! The first thing that I'd like to say is an apology for the lack of posts recently. On the 7th of October, my Mum and I were having a walk on the Breathing Space, a local green area (see my previous post, My Wildlife Event. We asked the local. Barry Warrington, and he identified it as an Oak Slug Sawfly, something that he doesn't see very often. Just lately I've been resea...
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Beetle Boy's BioBlog: October 2014
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The thoughts and experiences of a young Naturalist! Thursday, 23 October 2014. Species of the Week: Leafcutter Ants. If you're a naturalist or have an interest in wildlife, then you'll most likely have heard of Leafcutter Ants. These industrious little insects are a wonder of the natural world, and well worth a Species of the Week dedicated to them. The common name Leafcutter Ants is pretty vague, since it can mean any of the species belonging to either genus Atta. Distinguishing the genus is easy: Atta.
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Beetle Boy's BioBlog: The Phoenix Group
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The thoughts and experiences of a young Naturalist! Tuesday, 24 March 2015. First of all, I would like to apologise for the lack of posts recently. I will try my best to start blogging more often! Since then I have attended many of the activities, and enjoyed absolutely all of them! They are very hands-on (exactly what I love! And most of the time we are doing important conservation work. I always come home feeling that I have made a difference to the local wildlife. Watch it being ringed, then released!
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Beetle Boy's BioBlog: Sea Birds At Bempton
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The thoughts and experiences of a young Naturalist! Monday, 8 June 2015. Sea Birds At Bempton. On the 8 April, I went with the Phoenix Group (for more information on this group, see my previous post here. For a trip to Bempton Cliffs, a truly wonderful RSPB reserve. I had not been to this area for a while, so I was looking forward to seeing the multitude of seabirds and other wildlife that makes its home there! The bridled form of the guillemot. And learned that the inside of their mouths are bright gold...
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Beetle Boy's BioBlog: October 2013
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The thoughts and experiences of a young Naturalist! Tuesday, 22 October 2013. This year I took part in the Moth Night, in which members of the public can record and identify moths as part of a national survey. The Moth Night takes place every year, and this year the survey focuses on Tiger Moths. We put our moth trap out in the garden for the night, and checked its contents the following day. One of the species we found was a Canary-shouldered Thorn (. A Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing. I have rec...
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Beetle Boy's BioBlog: August 2013
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The thoughts and experiences of a young Naturalist! Thursday, 15 August 2013. Dung Wars At Beverly Westwood! The second and third episodes for my series on BBC Radio Humberside (see my previous post, BBC Fun. Were recorded on the 2nd of August. These episodes look at Grassland and Woodland habitats. Are on the site, but I never saw any of these on my visit. We saw an Early Thorn moth (Selenia dentaria). A species that can sometimes be seen during the day, hiding amongst the leaf litter. Was the culprit&#...
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Beetle Boy's BioBlog: September 2014
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The thoughts and experiences of a young Naturalist! Friday, 26 September 2014. Top 5 Strangest Caterpillars. Before I start rambling on about strange-looking caterpillars, I'd like to tell you about a few things that I've been doing lately. On Kinder (you might remember this brownfield site, I've mentioned it a few times before) we looked under a big bit of wood and found 9 Common Toads ( Bufo bufo. Anyway, I'll get on with the strange caterpillars now. Puss Moth caterpillar ( Cerura vinula. The strange-...
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Beetle Boy's BioBlog: June 2015
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The thoughts and experiences of a young Naturalist! Monday, 8 June 2015. Sea Birds At Bempton. On the 8 April, I went with the Phoenix Group (for more information on this group, see my previous post here. For a trip to Bempton Cliffs, a truly wonderful RSPB reserve. I had not been to this area for a while, so I was looking forward to seeing the multitude of seabirds and other wildlife that makes its home there! The bridled form of the guillemot. And learned that the inside of their mouths are bright gold...