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Hornets and hoverflies
Posted in Wildlife by Richard Jones, 13 August 2008, 11.30AM
I'm called to the end of the garden by the 10-year-old. "Daddy, is that a hornet?" she asks, pointing to a big brown insect sitting on a leaf near the swing.
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Sparrows and sparrowhawks
Posted in Wildlife by Pippa Greenwood, 07 August 2008, 11.35AM
I'm an animal lover. I love them all - be they wild, domesticated, farm animals, even pests.
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In the bleak midwater
Posted in Wildlife by Richard Jones, 06 August 2008, 12.35PM
...With that sudden darting plunge it snapped up some small wriggling thing, tossed it into the air and gulped it down. Well I never.
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Centipedes
Posted in Wildlife by Richard Jones, 30 July 2008, 11.07AM
With insects, getting a closer look is very often a question of grabbing at something that moves very quickly, and only then discovering what it is.
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Glow-worms
Posted in Wildlife by Pippa Greenwood, 24 July 2008, 11.26AM
Known in Latin as Lampyris noctiluca (noctiluca meaning 'night light'), this charming glowing critter is not actually a worm, but a beetle.
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Butterflies: meadow browns and gatekeepers
Posted in Wildlife by Richard Jones, 23 July 2008, 11.27AM
Although markedly different in size from the meadow brown, it's sometimes difficult to identify a gatekeeper, especially in a photograph.
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The trouble with berberis
Posted in Wildlife by Richard Jones, 16 July 2008, 11.12AM
The branches are bare of leaves and several of the bushes are completely defoliated. The culprits are not hard to spot: small speckled greyish sawfly caterpillars.
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Snails in the garden
Posted in Wildlife by Richard Jones, 09 July 2008, 12.14PM
Due to the wet weather of the past week, I haven't been out in the garden much. The snails, however, have been very active; I can barely walk to the front gate without the familiar sound of snails crunching underfoot.
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