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  • Corona Wildlife Diary: Day Sixty.

    16 May 2020

    Corona Wildlife Diary: Day Sixty.

    Swifts: Screaming two-winged rebels from hell.

     
  • Species of the day: Thick-legged Flower Beetle

    15 May 2020

    Species of the day: Thick-legged Flower Beetle

    The Beetles belong to a simply gigantic group of insects forming the Order Coleoptera. Just one of these is the rather cannily named Thick-legged Flower Beetle

     
  • Behind the App with Dave Kilbey

    15 May 2020

    Behind the App with Dave Kilbey

    Dave Kilbey has supplied Sussex Wildlife Trust with many wonderful photos over the years, but more recently, he’s helped the Trust out during the lockdown period by coming up with an app for our Back Garden Bird Race. We interviewed him over the phone about apps and photography.

     
  • Corona Wildlife Diary: Day Fifty-nine

    15 May 2020

    Corona Wildlife Diary: Day Fifty-nine

    The moth trap was moth-free but I get to spend some time with some of my favourite little monsters.

     
  • Corona Wildlife Diary: Day Fifty-eight

    14 May 2020

    Corona Wildlife Diary: Day Fifty-eight

    I finally set up the moth trap in the back garden.

     
  • The Bees Knees

    14 May 2020

    The Bees Knees

    There are around 276 species of bee in the UK, many of which are common and widespread.

     
  • Species of the day: Swallow

    14 May 2020

    Species of the day: Swallow

    The Swallow is a fabulous indicator of seasonal change and is perhaps our most welcomed avian migrant

     
  • Song Thrush - Bird Song

    14 May 2020

    Song Thrush - Bird Song

    The Song Thrush is the most familiar member of its family to have ‘Thrush’ in the name. They’re one of just a few birds comprehensively defined by their song

     
  • The Raven

    13 May 2020

    The Raven

    Michael Blencowe blog on Ravens in Lewes

     
  • Species of the day: Early Purple Orchid

    13 May 2020

    Species of the day: Early Purple Orchid

    The Orchids are a staggeringly large family of flowering plants. One that very much lives up to both parts of its common name is the Early Purple Orchid

     
  • Corona Wildlife Diary: Day Fifty-seven

    13 May 2020

    Corona Wildlife Diary: Day Fifty-seven

    Just when you thought it was safe to leave the cul-de-sac

     
  • Species of the day: Brown-tail Moth

    12 May 2020

    Species of the day: Brown-tail Moth

    ​The Brown-tail is one of around 2500 moth species in the order of ​Lepidoptera found in Britain. Its larvae live and feed in distinctive communal colonies which take the form of a silken tent