Monday, 14 July 2014

Large Heaths and Beautiful Demoiselles in south Cumbria

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June 16, 2014: Large Heath on raised bog Beautiful Demoiselle on Water Crowfoot

Small Blues and orchids on the north Cumbrian coast

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June 14, 2014: Pyramidal Orchid Bee Orchid Hybrid: Northern Marsh Orchid x Common Spotted Orchid

Whixall Moss, Shropshire

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June 11, 2014 at Whixall Moss White-faced Darters at Whixall Moss, a well-know site for this scarce British species Four-sp...

South Cumbria Spring butterflies

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May 14, 2014: Green Hairstreak at Foulshaw Orange-tip at Foulshaw Duke of Burgundy on Whitbarrow Dingy Skipper on Whitbar...
Tuesday, 20 May 2014

Cyprus - other invertebrates

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April 29-May 5, 2014: Many of the invertebrates were suffering because of the drought but a few found are shown here.   ...

Cyprus butterflies

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April 29-May 5, 2014: Not having had any rain during he winter everywhere was very dry and the dragonflies and orthoptera had especial...
Monday, 31 March 2014

Early Spring plants

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March 2014: Some of the scarcer Spring plants are now in flower. By rivers in Wensleydale and south Cumbria, Yellow Star-of-Bethlehem (Gage...
Thursday, 2 January 2014

Earth-stars (Geastrum triplex) in Cumbria

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December 2013: A small deciduous coppice close to the waxcap site (mentioned earlier) in northern Cumbria had the Collared Earth-star (Geas...

Rare fungi in Cumbria

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October 2014: A small area of old unimproved grassland east of Penrith had two especially rare fungi: Clavaria zollingeri and Hygrocybe cal...
Tuesday, 12 November 2013

Cyprus Orthoptera - Autumn 2013

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September 28-October 3, 2013: Everywhere was extremely dry and most of the grassy areas were parched and whitened by the heat. Relatively ...