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Greenshank: the nebulous plover | The Nature of dorset
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The Nature of dorset. The nature reserves and wildlife of Dorset, England. Greenshank: the nebulous plover. Greenshank: the nebulous plover. Greenshank: the nebulous plover. A slightly up-turned, greenish, probing beak and pale green legs are good guides to identification here. The greenshank. Why some travel so far and others stay nearer home is a mystery. It probably does explain why the numbers we see in Dorset vary each year. Read all about it! On Hogweed: love it or hate …. Follow Blog via Email.
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Bee-Loving Flowers in Mid Summer | Adventures in Natural Beekeeping
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Adventures in Natural Beekeeping. Bees, Hives, Swarms, and Everything under the Sun. Bee-Loving Flowers in Mid Summer. July 30, 2015 by solarbeez. I could have shot a bunch of stills of these bees pollinating flowers, but the video together with the music conveys so much more. I hope you especially enjoy the leaf cutter bees demonstrating their petal cutting abilities and the crab spider attacking the honeybee…and missing! Says that the African Blue Basil will produce flowers all summer. Hi Amelia…...
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Collema cristatum: crustose lichen | The Nature of dorset
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The Nature of dorset. The nature reserves and wildlife of Dorset, England. Greenshank: the nebulous plover. Collema cristatum: crustose lichen. Collema cristatum: crustose lichen. This is one of several similar species of crustose lichen and as I am no expert I am going to have to play the ‘percentage game’ and stick my neck out and say that this is. Here is my logic! Large Red-tailed Bumble-bee: red tails in the sunset! Early Marsh Orchid: tell me the old, old story →. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. You ar...
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The National Pollinator Strategy – some reflections | Jeff Ollerton's Biodiversity Blog
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Jeff Ollerton's Biodiversity Blog. A giant falls: the Tolkien tree is no more. Biodiversity conservation pays its way – Nature Improvement Areas are boosting wildlife, communities and economy →. November 17, 2014 · 1:37 pm. The National Pollinator Strategy – some reflections. After many months of consultation and workshops, the National Pollinator Strategy for England has finally been released by Defra, and can be downloaded from this website. Comments and reflections of my own in italics. Minimising the...
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THE WESSEX REIVER: Flying Ant Day
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A man cannot drift up into a corner of some green lane, and stay in his cottage out of the tide of life, as was once the case. The tide comes to him." Richard Jefferies 1883. Sunday, 2 August 2015. Christmas comes but once a year was the title of a 1930's short film, and in most years this is undoubtedly true. However in August 2015 the Festive Season began early, four months early, and with a nod to Rudolph involved a species of animal we don't expect to see on the wing - ants to be precise. This mass e...
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Green-veined white: in a different vein | The Nature of dorset
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The Nature of dorset. The nature reserves and wildlife of Dorset, England. Greenshank: the nebulous plover. Green-veined white: in a different vein. Green-veined white: in a different vein. At first sight you may think that this is a small white but if it is in your garden you need have no worries. The green-veined white (. Navelwort: the wall pennywort. Hogweed: love it or hate it? Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Create a free ...
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Large Red-tailed Bumble-bee: red tails in the sunset! | The Nature of dorset
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The Nature of dorset. The nature reserves and wildlife of Dorset, England. Greenshank: the nebulous plover. Large Red-tailed Bumble-bee: red tails in the sunset! Large Red-tailed Bumble-bee: red tails in the sunset! The buff-tailed bumble-bee is the first bumble to emerge each spring and it will have been around for a few weeks before next common bumble-bee on the wing, the large red-tailed bumblebee (. Great Mullein: reaching for the sky. Collema cristatum: crustose lichen →. 15/01/2017 at 7:12 pm.
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Large white: eat your greens | The Nature of dorset
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The Nature of dorset. The nature reserves and wildlife of Dorset, England. Greenshank: the nebulous plover. Large white: eat your greens. Large white: eat your greens. In some years you can see clouds of large white (. Lesser Spearwort: point well made. Carex pseudocyperus: the cyperus sedge →. One thought on “ Large white: eat your greens. 08/01/2017 at 5:31 pm. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). Post w...
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A half-hidden route to the past: Bristol’s Johnny Ball Lane | Richly Evocative
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Places, books and other diversions. Read, bought, recovered. Movember 2012 Tache Tales. A half-hidden route to the past: Bristol’s Johnny Ball Lane. December 12, 2016. How one obscure Bristol back-alley runs through two thousand years of history: from Romano-British settlements, to Grey Friars, pauper’s burial grounds, cutpurses and wasted Walnut trees. For a long time it didn’t have a name. It was just the lane that ran along the back of Mum and Dad’s bookshop. Sometimes I’d dare a peek over the top of ...
