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Beetle Boy's BioBlog: Species of the Week: Hermit Crabs

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The thoughts and experiences of a young Naturalist! Monday, 6 October 2014. Species of the Week: Hermit Crabs. I am very fond of Hermit Crabs - they're fascinating crustaceans, and I have good memories of watching them scrambling about in my old marine aquarium. Hermit Crabs are a superfamily, known scientifically as the Paguroidea superfamily. They are well known for using empty sea snail shells as a mobile house, but occasionally they will use hollow stones or bits of wood! A Common Hermit Crab. As I h...

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BRISC - Biological Recording in Scotland

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Biological Recording in Scotland. Where to send records. Where to send records? When you have done all the hard work in noting down all the details of your wildlife sighting, (see here. For details) what do you do next? The important issue is to make sure that your record appears on the national databases so that people can make use of it in planning and conservation work. The steps to follow are:. Remember, you can use the internet and websites like iSpot. To help identify the species you have seen....

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BNHS Data on NBN Gateway

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BNHS Records on the NBN Gateway. To use: 1) Select a dataset; 2) Select a species. The distribution map will appear on the right. (Internet Explorer may appear to freeze for a few seconds between selections, but is working behind the scenes. Firefox users get a running commentary. This interface is now running off the new NBN Gateway (version 5) and this is sometimes reluctant to provide grid maps(! Just keep trying, you'll eventually get one! The data are fetched live from the NBN Gateway. Metadata desc...

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Beetle Boy's BioBlog: January 2014

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The thoughts and experiences of a young Naturalist! Thursday, 30 January 2014. Is It A Slug, Is It A Tadpole? No It's A Sawfly Larvae! The first thing that I'd like to say is an apology for the lack of posts recently. On the 7th of October, my Mum and I were having a walk on the Breathing Space, a local green area (see my previous post, My Wildlife Event. We asked the local. Barry Warrington, and he identified it as an Oak Slug Sawfly, something that he doesn't see very often. Just lately I've been resea...

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Ulmus Maritime by The Conservation Foundation | A project for the Sussex coast elm heritage

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To update records on the Sussex coast's biodiversity and find out what wildlife is in the area that depends on the elm landscape, we're asking you to report any sightings of species that rely on the elms. Please either send us an email or use the easy to use online map. Report a species sighting. White-letter Hairstreak butterfly (Satyrium w-album). Read more at UKButterflies. View detailed images at Lepiforum.de (German). A White-letter Hairstreak butterfly (Photo: Ian Kirk. This moth has orangey, brown...

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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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Insect rambles: September 2013

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Wandering around, photographing insects. Thursday, 5 September 2013. Where are all the ladybirds? Where have all the ladybirds gone? I've hardly seen any this year.' In this case the question is relayed, second-hand, via a friend and through Twitter, but it's becoming a worryingly frequent refrain this year. As a professional ladybird-fancier (my very-nearly-finished PhD is on ladybirds and in my spare time (what spare time? I'm part of the UK Ladybird Survey. The British summer, 2012. That meant that a ...