Emergences d’Aeschnes des joncs – Aeshna junceaOdonata – Aeshnidae – Il n’y a rien de plus beau qu’une libellule qui émerge de son exuvie mais rien n’est jamais gagné à aucun stade de la vie de ces insectes extraordinaires.J’ai trouvé cette larve mourante sur la mousse de la tourbière que je scrutais pour trouver des […]
POLL: Should the use of “Neonicotinoid Pesticides” be banned worldwide?
The disappearance of honey bees in the United States is a phenomenon that has many people asking questions. What exactly is going on? This question has been answered by multiple studies that have shed light on the harmful effect pesticides are having on honey bees. More research is showing that bees exposed to common agricultural […]
Aurora Borealis season open 2013/14
After reading reports that the solar wind stream could buffer theearth’smagnetic field at the weekend (04/08/13) I headed out to a good vantage point as clear skies were due to continue through the night. A small amount of trueastronomicaldarkness arrives back in August in the British isles and I knew there was a chance of […]
Results of the Best Photo of the Week Ended 10 Aug 2013
We are delighted to announce the RESULTS of our most recent “Best Photo of the Week” Competition. First Prize is awarded to Doina Russu for her outstanding image “Tenderness – Mr. Bee-eater offers a wedding gift to his lady”. Second Prize is shared by Tim Kuhn for “Bald Eagle stealing from Great Blue Heron” and […]
Blue Dasher Dragonfly
Male and female blue dashers are about an inch and a half long. Both have wavy yellow and brown stripes on the thorax, the middle body section where wings and legs are attached. The blue dasher is one of the most common and abundant dragonflies in the United States. They can be found near still […]
Spoon-billed sandpipers get help from Leica Camera AG
The critically endangered spoon-billed sandpiper has been given desperately needed financial help by German optics company, Leica Camera AG. The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust and their partners are attempting to stabilise the spoon-billed sandpiper population, which numbers fewer than 100 pairs in the wild, but working on the birds’ remote Russian breeding grounds and undertaking […]
Eekhoorns
Afgelopen weken een aantal keren mogen doorbrengen in de nieuwste fotohut van Han Bouwmeester. Onder het motto van de hut uittesten worden een aantal “genodigden” in de gelegenheid gesteld om de hut te testen en de beesten te laten wennen aan de aanwezigheid van natuurpaparazzi. Ook bij deze hut is het aantal soorten weer redelijk […]
Badger cull: only small proportion of shootings to be monitored for humaneness
Only a small proportion of badger shootings in the pilot cull will be monitored to make sure it is humane. The government was accused of not properly assessing the animals’ suffering after a freedom of information (FoI) request revealed that as few as 120 shootings will be independently observed, out of about 5,000 badgers set […]