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From issue:   Issue:   British Wildlife 20.1 October 2008

Revealing the foundations of biodiversity: The Database of British Insects and their Foodplants

By - David Roy, Richard Smith

Insects feeding on plants bring to mind images dominated by gardener's foes: red beetles congregated on lilies Lilium, sawfly caterpillars stripping Solomon's-seal Polygonatum x hybridum, or coatings of 'green-fly' and 'black-fly'. 

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11 Through a naturalist’s eyes Column
12-16 Reserve Focus: Kingcombe Meadows, Dorset Reserve Focus
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26-27 Habitat management news Habitat management news
28-35 Whirligigs in Britain and Ireland Article
36 Letter from the far West Coast Column
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44-64 Wildlife reports Wildlife reports
65-70 Conservation news Conservation news
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"British Wildlife is the pulsating heart of the UK nature conservation movement."

Matthew Oates, National Trust

"The most important and informative publication on wildlife of our times"

Michael McCarthy, The Independent

"Packed with readable, thoughtful, up to date articles; written by ecologists and naturalists for ecologists and naturalists"

Nick Baker, Presenter and Naturalist

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