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Neonic ban starts today | Science on the Land
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Science on the Land. Six things that will change with the loosening of China’s one-child policy. EU pesticide ban takes effect in bid to save bees →. Neonic ban starts today. December 1, 2013. Today a two-year ban on three insecticides called neonics (neonicotinoids) came into force across the European Union (EU). The neonics are used as seed dressings to reduce pest attacks. Their names are clothianidin, imidacloprid and thiamethoxam. The neonics have been temporarily banned. Both quite negative, eh?
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argylesock | Science on the Land
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Science on the Land. I wrote a PhD about veterinary parasitology so that's the starting point for this blog. But I'm now branching out into other areas of biology and into popular science writing. I'll write here about science that happens in landscapes, particularly farmland, and about science involving interspecific interactions. Datasets and statistics get my attention. Exactly where this blog will lead? That's a journey that I'm on and I hope you'll come with me. August 30, 2015. July 29, 2015. Here ...
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Priority Species | Wild Oxfordshire
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Biodiversity Policy and Strategies. Water Blitz: 3rd October 2016. Species of Principal Importance. The UK government (through its conservation and environmental agencies), local government and non-government wildlife-related organisations all collect and use biodiversity data. One of the principal means of collation and interpretation of this data is the network of local records centres and at the national level, the Biological Records Centre. And to request access to this data. NBN) captures wildlife d...
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hymenoptera | Hope you like insects
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Hope you like insects. The Hope Entomological Collections. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Oxford University Museum of Natural History. Ask us a question…. The Flame-Shouldered Blister Beetle – re-discovered at last! One of Britain’s rarest beetles is the secretive, endangered Flame-shouldered Blister Beetle Sitaris muralis –. In old mortar [the entry / exit point looks rather like bullet holes]. This elusive insect could turn up almost anywhere, but is most likely in southern England...
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Meloidae | Hope you like insects
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Hope you like insects. The Hope Entomological Collections. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Oxford University Museum of Natural History. Ask us a question…. The Flame-Shouldered Blister Beetle – re-discovered at last! One of Britain’s rarest beetles is the secretive, endangered Flame-shouldered Blister Beetle Sitaris muralis –. In old mortar [the entry / exit point looks rather like bullet holes]. This elusive insect could turn up almost anywhere, but is most likely in southern England...
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Strategy and action plan for the conservation of lower plants and fungi in Wales | Lichens of Wales
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Skip to main content. Dedicated to the conservation of lichens in Wales. Ash Chalara Dieback Disease. Welsh Lichen Red List. Section 42 Lichen List. Strategy and action plan for the conservation of lower plants and fungi in Wales. Wales supports an extraordinary diversity of lower plants and fungi. Despite occupying only 10% of the total land area of the British Isles, it supports 75% of the total diversity of mosses and liverworts, 74% of the lichens and 80% of the rust fungi. View or download the PDF.
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Lichen Communities | Lichens of Wales
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Skip to main content. Dedicated to the conservation of lichens in Wales. Ash Chalara Dieback Disease. Welsh Lichen Red List. Section 42 Lichen List. Groups of lichen species are often associated together in a consistent way, forming recognisable "communities". The study of such communities (gnerally termed "phytosociology") and their use in survey work has not become established (in Britain at least) to the same extent as for vascular plant communities (. The National Vegetation Classification, NVC.
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beetle | Hope you like insects
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Hope you like insects. The Hope Entomological Collections. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Oxford University Museum of Natural History. Ask us a question…. The Flame-Shouldered Blister Beetle – re-discovered at last! One of Britain’s rarest beetles is the secretive, endangered Flame-shouldered Blister Beetle Sitaris muralis –. In old mortar [the entry / exit point looks rather like bullet holes]. This elusive insect could turn up almost anywhere, but is most likely in southern England...
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The Hope Entomological Collections: EntoModena
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Monday, 29 April 2013. Specimens and equipment for sale at EntoModena. Last week I spent a few days in sunny Italy, visiting my good friends Stefano and Roberta Ziani and timed to coincide with the Italian entomological show ' EntoModena. I had a wonderful few days of dung beetle chitchat and homemade, mouth-watering Italian gnocchi. My vegan gnocchi as made by Roberta Ziani- it was that good it needed a picture all to itself. EntoModena is similar to the Juvisy and Prague. Pasta picnic at EntoModena 2013.
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The Hope Entomological Collections: Gynandromorphs
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Wednesday, 15 May 2013. Very occasionally we come across some rather special butterfly specimens. These are gynandromorphs. Individuals which are part male and part female. In many species of butterfly males and females have different colour patterns. In these species spectacular gynandromorphs can sometimes arise where one half is male and the other female. The genetic cause of these bilateral gynandromorphs. Is complex but essentially an X chromosome is lost very early in cell division of the embryo.
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