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In this issue
Stenus Rove Beetles – Land Value and Nature – Conservation of Wood Pasture – Phenology of Breeding – Bluebells Seen from Below
Contents:
- 313 The extraordinary natural history of Stenus rove beetles
- 320 Natural reflections
- 321 Comment: Priced out of paradise- land prices and wildlife
- 329 Habitat management news
- 331 Wood pasture: its importance and future value
- 343 Wild story
- 344 A question of breeding?
- 348 Letter from Caledonia
- 349 Bluebells seen from below
- 357 Flying kites
- 358 Wildlife reports
- 382 Conservation news
- 388 Changing perspectives
- 389 Book review: A Photographic Guide to Flies of Britain and Ireland
Articles in this issue
Bluebells seen from below
Contrary to Anne Brontë’s opinion, words can tell us much about the European Blue bell Hyacinthoides non-scripta (referred to hereafter as ‘Bluebell’), even inspiring a sort of bliss in the biologist. She may have been moved by their silent eloquence, an emotional state that many of us might have experienced on entering a springtime wood, but there isSee moreColumns in this issue
Featuresin this issue
Book review: A Photographic Guide to Flies of Britain and Ireland
The first flies were basking in February sunshine on my garden wall when A Photographic Guide to Flies plopped through the letterbox. Both the flies and a book which could help me to identify them are very welcome after a dull, wet winter. As fly doyenne Erica McAlister points out in her foreword, this book is the first volume dedicated
Conservation news
This month’s conservation news covers new deer culling legislation, the expansion of the UK’s largest salmon farm and more.
Wildlife reports
April’s wildlife reports includes the appearance of a Walrus Odobenus rosmarus on the Scottish coast, sightings of a large Depilatory Sea Hare Aplysia depilans found on the shore in Plymouth, news roundups of arachnids, ladybirds, bees, wasps, ants, birds, reptiles and much more.
Habitat management news
In this issue, habitat management news covers whether woodland proximity limits conservation efforts for farmland-breeding waders.
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