On Saturday the 11th of March we will do a dung beetle (or beetles in dung) survey with the ecologist and Wiltshire county recorder for bats and mammals Gareth Harris. Why is this mammal specialist interested in beetles and dung? Come and find out! We will do this survey at 10 o'clock at Wallmead Farm; specific meeting point to be confirmed closer to the time and for those who book their space.
Thank you to everybody who came to our bat box workshop. We hope our participants will also encourage bats by creating a diversity of habitats in their gardens that will provide food sources for our favourite flying mammals. Have a look at the pictures of the workshop on our Instagram account post.
On Saturday the 25th of February at 10 am we will be making bat boxes from ready made kits that you will be able to take home to install (we will give you advice on how to improve habitats for bats and put the boxes). The boxes will be partly financed by the Tisbury and District Natural History Society, please make a £10 contribution for each box you will take with you. Please register your interest in this activity by Sunday the 12th of February so we can buy the right number of boxes for the event.
We had a great morning back on our fungi walk in Wardour Woods, thank you to all who came and our walk leader for his time.
We had an amazing bug hunt on Saturday the 13th of August. Thanks to Mariko Whyte for giving us her time and providing expertise in ID. Also to Dick Budden for hosting us in his land. We saw the following species:
Crickets and Grasshoppers Roesel's Bush Cricket Field Grasshopper Butterflies Gatekeeper Speckled Wood Beetles Dock Beetle 16-spot Ladybird Flies Thistle Gall Fly (Urophora cardui) A hoverfly (Sphaerophoria scripta) Dragonflies and Damselflies Banded Demoiselle Spiders and Harvestmen Garden Cross Spider (Araneus diadematus) Common Candy-striped Spider (Enoplognatha ovata s.l.) Nursery Web Spider Furrow Spider (Larinoides cornutus) A Long-jawed Orb Weaver (Tetragnatha sp.) A crab spider (Xysticus sp.) A fork-palped harvestman (Dicranopalpus agg.) A harvestman (Mitopus morio) True Bugs Red-legged Shieldbug Common Spittle-bug (Philaenus spumarius) Dock Bug A plant bug (Malacocoris chlorizans) Other A lacewing larva (Chrysopidae) Oak Apple Gall Wasp (Biorhiza pallida) You can have a look at some of our pictures on our social media: here and here. |
Young Nature Watch (YNW) is a branch of the Tisbury and District Natural History Society (T&DNHS).
YNW is free for under-21s! Young people always have priority at any of our activities but accompanying adults are required for under-12s. For adults, annual membership for the T&DNHS (£10) or a £2 fee per event (for non-members) is due. Download our annual programme below!
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