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Secret Nature: June 2015
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Sunday, 28 June 2015. Bugs on drugs . Small Skipper ( Thymelicus sylvestris). Typically inhabits rough grassland, where tall grasses can be found, and may occur on roadside verges, beside hedgerows, on overgrown downland, in woodland clearings and along woodland rides. It is often found basking on vegetation, or making its short, fast, buzzing flights amongst tall grass stems. The Essex Skipper, Thymelicus lineola. This area is black and in T. sylvestris. The sex brand of T. lineola. Monday, 22 June 2015.
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Butterfly Conservation - Sussex Branch
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Saving butterflies, moths and our environment. Butterflies of the Biosphere - a video odyssey. Allotmenteer's guide to butterflies and moths. The Ashdown Forest Silver-studded blue project. Fritillaries for the future. SUMMER EVENTS and FIELD TRIPS - 2016. Our events are a great way to see butterflies, learn about them, and visit some wonderful places and see many different habitats across Sussex. Please wear stout footwear to outdoor events and appropriate clothes for the weather conditions. Public tran...
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Secret Nature: October 2014
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Tuesday, 21 October 2014. Queen of Spain Fritillary (Issoria lathonia). Although females have been seen egg-laying, neither larvae nor pupae have been found in the wild except in the Channel Islands, where larvae were found in 1950. Larvae were again found in 1951 and 1957. However, in 1945, 25 individuals were recorded at Portreath in Cornwall, suggesting that a migrant female had deposited her eggs in the vicinity and that this concentration of adults were her offspring. Queen of Spain Fritillary.
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Sussex Butterfly Recording: Grid references made easy
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The techie data stuff . Wednesday, 18 April 2012. Grid references made easy. You don't have to venture very far away from this sceptred isle to discover that Ordnance Survey. OS) deserves to be one of Great Britain's most envied institutions. I'd even go as far as to say OS maps, and the public rights of way. Recorded on them, are one of the greatest things about living in Britain. OS maps - especially the Explorer. Where you can hunt for undiscovered populations of Dukes. And you've got an awesome.
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Sussex Butterfly Recording: Here, there and everywhere
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The techie data stuff . Monday, 16 April 2012. Here, there and everywhere. One of the more mind-bending aspects of running the Sussex Butterfly Atlas recording project. Is keeping track of where the data is coming from, and where it's going. Trying to store all this information in my head seems to be a great way of inducing total brain meltdown - so I've dedicated some precious time this morning to getting the Sussex Butterfly Atlas data model. Transects and the Wider Countryside Butterfly Survey. And it...
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Sussex Butterfly Recording: Sussex Butterfly Report 2011 - out now!
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The techie data stuff . Friday, 27 April 2012. Sussex Butterfly Report 2011 - out now! I couldn't possibly let this week go by without plugging the latest edition of The Sussex Butterfly Report. This beautifully designed not-for-profit publication is brought to you by the volunteers of Butterfly Conservation's Sussex Branch, just-because-we-care. It makes for an exhilarating read and it's got some very pretty maps in too (what I made). Reserve and the inside scoop on Michael Blencowe's and Graeme Lyons.
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Sussex Butterfly Recording: Ye Olde Sussex
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The techie data stuff . Thursday, 26 April 2012. In a larger map. If you're ever out and about recording wildlife near Gatwick. Or east of Camber. This blog post is for you! We’re going to delve into a bit of the techie detail of wildlife recording now. But hey, what is the internet for, if not to provide more detail about everything. Than you ever realised you wanted to know? But for this system to work properly and provide a comprehensive picture for the whole of the UK. We need to all agree on where t...
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Sussex Butterfly Recording: Butterflies in the wider countryside
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The techie data stuff . Monday, 23 April 2012. Butterflies in the wider countryside. Following on from my last post. About transect recording, it's worth mentioning another UK-wide butterfly survey - the Wider Countryside Butterfly Survey. Also run by the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme. Transects need to be walked week in, week out, year in, year out, by the same volunteers. It's hardly surprising then that they tend to be clustered around places where people actually want to walk. Which came through my ...
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Saving butterflies, moths and our environment. Butterflies of the Biosphere - a video odyssey. Allotmenteer's guide to butterflies and moths. The Ashdown Forest Silver-studded blue project. Fritillaries for the future. Butterfly Conservation is always aware of privacy issues and will strive to ensure that the site is monitored effectively to prevent possible breaches of any individual privacy. No outside commercial or non-commercial organisation shall be in receipt of such data. Please contact us if you ...
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Secret Nature: April 2015
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Tuesday, 28 April 2015. Call of the wild . Red Grouse (Lagopus lagopus). The beautiful Red Grouse Lagopus lagopus. Is the British race of the Willow Grouse ( Lagopus l. Although it was once believed that the Red Grouse was a species in its own right known as Lagopus scoticus. Endemic to the British Isles. Furthermore, birds in Ireland are sometimes thought to be a separate subspecies known as L. l. hibernica. BirdLife International (2015). Species factsheet: Lagopus lagopus. Accessed, 28 April 2015].
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