Archive of: Graeme Lyons
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11 July 2019
A UK first: Shieldbug family new to the UK found at Sussex Wildlife Trust nature reserve
Exciting news as our Senior Ecologist, Graeme Lyons, has found a Shieldbug family new to the British Isles at Marline Valley in Hastings
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12 June 2019
If you build it, they will come
Around four years ago, we attempted to rejuvenate one of the fields at Woods Mill into something less grass dominated and more meadow-like. A sign that a project like this has become really successful though is when host-specific invertebrates turn up to feed on the their food plants.
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25 April 2019
The Warbler Factory
Exciting news as Dartford Warblers holding territory in dense bramble scrub at Butcherlands
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20 January 2019
What has pan-species listing Sussex Wildlife Trust's nature reserves done for us?
Graeme Lyons celebrates the updating of the master pan species-list for Sussex Wildlife Trust reserves.
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10 October 2018
Bogey beetle
This nationally scarce apple-green coloured tortoise beetle has been discovered at Stedham Common for the first time.
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10 June 2018
Grizzled tales
Interesting invertebrates at Marline Valley nature reserve
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26 May 2018
The value of casual recording
The Trust’s Senior Ecologist blogs about the value of stumbling across quite a lot of good species whilst doing other things.
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12 March 2018
Spring into action
Graeme Lyons has been working with the volunteer group at Flatropers Wood recording wildlife
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10 January 2018
The Burton Mistletoe Crisis
Mistletoe has never been recorded on a Sussex Wildlife Trust reserve, but at Burton Pond it is tantalisingly close. However when you are looking for mistletoe you never know what else might turn up…
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22 October 2017
A bunch of suckers
Graeme Lyons is been delving into the world of leeches at Waltham Brooks nature reserve.
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04 October 2017
Christmas has come early
Our ecologist thinks this is the best fungus he has ever seen!
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11 July 2017
6666 the number of beasts
Sussex Wildlife Trust’s ecologist makes more exciting finds at Graffham Common nature reserve