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23 Sep 2018
#WorldRiversDay Headwater & tributary streams make up >80% of the total channel length of river networks. These #Small_Streams are the key to the health, conservation & restoration of our main rivers @WildlifeTrusts @StaffsWildlife @PondRiverStream @RRC @BiodiversityEA
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Jun 12
Good news! Ministers have finally given green light to new #NaturalHistory GCSE. Big hats off to tireless advocate Mary Colwell 🙌 Now young people will be able to get to know & love the natural world & gain vital skills to protect it @curlewcalls🌷🌳 🦅🦡 theguardian.com/education/20…
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Exciting #WildlifeWednesday news at Trentham! 💜 Thanks to member David Emley, we've recorded the Norfolk Hawker dragonfly for the first time on the estate and the first ever record in Staffordshire.
Keep an eye out for flashes of orange around the lake! 🌿✨
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Clockwise, start 12 noon: Olm (Proteus anguinus), TN Cave Sal. (Gyrinophilus palleucus), Cascades Cavern Sal. (Eurycea latitans), GA Blind Sal. (E. wallacei), Comal Blind Sal. (E. tridentifera), TX Blind Sal. (E. rathbuni), Western Grotto Sal.-larva/adult (E. spelaea)
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Jun 9
1. For #thicktrunktuesday I'm celebrating the amazing veteran oak I fell upon at Staverton Park, Suffolk last week. The site contains several hundred old oaks but this one stood out because of the sap runs attracting many Red Admirals & queen Hornets.
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A hidden sparkle in the dales! 💎⛰️
Spotted these Calcite crystals on the ravine floor. Formed 300M years ago, these minerals create the limestone soils our trees love. Proof the dales are beautiful from the bedrock up! ✨
#lifeprogramme #LIFEinRavines
ALT A cluster of translucent, pale yellow calcite crystals is embedded in a rough, gray rock. The background features out-of-focus, textured green moss and dry grass.
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Phylidorea longicornis (Schummel, 1829) A very localised species in north western britain. Most records are associated with saturated bare ground along streams. This individual was recorded from Glengarriff Nature Reserve, Co Cork (Date: 05.06.2026).
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Great to get both male and female Callicera aurata at Ainsdale NNR, Merseyside today. The bramble flowers did the trick. Made it a 2 Callicera day with the now well established C.rufa in nearby pines @StevenFalk1 @tanyptera @DipteristsForum
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Hope I've worked this out correctly, small but stood out with those silvery flashes. I'm going with Metopia argyrocephala or Silver-headed Satellite Fly. It was doing the characteristc circular flight just above the ground.
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A gorgeous looking spider seen at Highgate Common, South Staffs recently - Sand Bear Spider (Arctosa perita)
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Jun 1
Xanthogramma stackelbergi ♂ today in Bengeo garden, striking woodland hoverfly recorded far less frequently than common X.pedissequum.
Photos show major ID features: little darkening on wings below pterostigma, 4 yellow spots on side of thorax & yellow membrane below T3-5.
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May 30
Amazing day at Trentham Gardens. Not only did I catch up with the Lesser Emperor dragonfly but I found Staffordshire's first (I think) Norfolk Hawker! There were also 4 Black-tailed Skimmers and quite a few Red-eyed Damselflies.
ALT Black-tailed SKimmer
ALT Norfolk Hawker
ALT Red-eyed Damselfly
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May 29
Antherophagus pallens found yesterday on Dogwood (Cornus sanguinea) in Bengeo garden, scarce silken fungus beetle with interesting life cycle. #phoresis 1/2
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May 26
Plagionotus detritus ♀ today in Bengeo garden, spectacular European longhorn beetle associated with Oak & Hornbeam with few UK records.
Previously recorded here in 2023 & appears now to have colonised local woodland. #saproxylic #attractedtolight
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May 26
Look out for these tiny flies lurking around your bee hotel. Known as the Houdini Fly Cacoxenus indagator it lays an egg in a sealed mason bee tube, then escapes leaving its egg to develop into a cleptoparitic larva. Find out more here bit.ly/4dqQI8Z @DipteristsForum
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May 26
Don’t forget to check the bumblebees. I cover them in this report researchgate.net/publication…. Great Yellow and the Hebridean form of Moss Carder are the stars. Good populations at Balranald, Grenitote and machair with Kidney Vetch.
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Alabonia geoffrella - probably my favourite micro moth. A small colony exists in a hedgerow just outside Wombourne. This week in May appears to be the best time to see them again. Gorgeous little moths.
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May 20
1. For #WorldBeeDay I'm going to celebrate British PlastererBees, Colletes. Let's start with the largest & earliest-flying, Colletes cunicularius. It used to be confined to western dunes using Creeping Willow. But a new form using sallows has recently spread across southern UK.
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May 20
Epistrophe grossulariae ♂ today in Bengeo garden, beautiful species identifiable by its almost straight black abdominal bands & habit of feeding at flowers without landing.
Never recorded this species in May before. #climatechange
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May 20
4. In sandy parts of the W. Scottish and Irish coasts, you will find the very similar Colletes floralis. It forages on a greater variety of flowers and particularly likes umbellifers. Climate change may have eliminated it from Cumbria. New golf courses are another threat.
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Black Darter are in decline in England. Cornwall Recorder Steve Jones is asking visitors and residents of East Cornwall to keep an eye out for the species, especially around Bodmin Moor. ID tips: bit.ly/432cOM6 Report sightings: bit.ly/4nIoygF 📸 Pierre Bornand
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