News
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01 February 2024
Celebrating World Wetlands Day 2024
For World Wetlands Day 2024, we’re celebrating the amazing wetlands of Rye Harbour Nature Reserve. Volunteer, David Bentley, tells us about his favourite spot.
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31 January 2024
Mice to meet you!
Mammal expert Stuart Edmunds introduces the four species of mice you can see in the UK.
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30 January 2024
Are you a Gladiator?
The concept of Gladiators plays on our competitive human nature. In the animal world, competition is rife, however most animals aren’t in it for the glory – they usually compete for limited resources such as shelters, food and mates
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28 January 2024
What are wetlands?
Wetlands are enormously important. They help provide clean water, flood protection, provide food, capture carbon, promote biodiversity and provide an environment for quiet relaxation. So what exactly are wetlands?
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26 January 2024
The Traitors
Treachery is a strategy well used by humans to get what they want, but we by no means invented it. Andy Fry looks at treacherous survival strategies in nature.
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26 January 2024
Cuckoo bees - treachery in nature
Cuckoo bumblebees don’t bother with the whole communal living vibe and prefer more nefarious methods when it comes to raising a brood
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25 January 2024
Short and sweet - Mayflies
One of the oldest animal groups lives the shortest adult life in the animal kingdom. Mayflies have a unique life cycle that has likely remained unchanged for 300 million years.
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22 January 2024
Q&A: Ten bees and the stories they tell
There were lots of questions at the end of James Powers’ excellent recent Bees webinar, Ten Bees and the Stories They Tell. Here are the ones he didn’t have time to answer.
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17 January 2024
Butterfly watching in January?
Butterflies in January? Well, you can find the eggs! Bob Foreman goes looking for Brown Hairstreak eggs at Woods Mill
Around Sussex
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26 April 2020
Corona Wildlife Diary: Day Forty
Results from our fourth Back garden Bird Race. There was no Hoopoe but there was a penguin. Seriously.
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26 April 2020
Species of the day: Blue Tit
With vividly bright plumage and a personable nature, the tiny Blue Tit is one of our most recognisable garden birds
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25 April 2020
Species of the day: Ivy-leaved Toadflax
The charming Ivy-leaved Toadflax isn’t a native British species, having thought to have hitched a ride on imported Italian sculptures and first recorded living wild in 1640.