Articles Tagged with “UK” - Page 2

48 Articles found tagged with “UK”.

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  O is for Orthops

  Whilst they aren’t the most spectacular insects in Britain, I’m glad to have gotten to know them, just one of the common insect groups I’ve stumbled on this year which were hitherto unknown to me.

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  N is for Neuroptera

  Aside from them being quite nice to look at, there’s a good reason for gardeners to encourage lacewings to share their home for the winter, or even better, to provide a purpose built lacewing home.

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  Bad Weather is Bad News for Barn Owls

  Barn owls are adversely affected by large amounts of rainfall. They hunt in daylight, detecting prey primarily by sound, therefore relying on dry leaf litter to find voles and mice.

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  A-Z of Invasive Marine Species: Zebra Mussel

  Dreissena polymorpha superficially resemble marine mussels in the family Mytilidae, and like them, are attached to solid substrates with a byssus.

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  J is for July Highflyer

  Nature in the UK is not so much flying high as sinking fast, whether moths or otherwise.

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  Cranes in Britain

  It is our tallest breeding bird and its majestic appearance ensured that it frequently featured in art, mythology and legends.

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  A-Z of Invasive Marine Species: Styela clava

  They are marine filter feeders with a sac-like body structure. In their respiration and feeding they take in water through an inhalant siphon and expel the filtered water through an exhalant siphon.

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  A-Z of Invasive Marine Species: Rhithropanopeus harrisii

  The dwarf crab is native to the east coast of the Americas where it has the distribution from New Brunswick, Canada to north-east Brazil. There is also a breeding fresh water population in the Brazos River basin, Texas.

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  I is for Ichneumon

  It is amongst the most diverse of all insect families, numbering around 60,000 species worldwide, of which about 3,000 occur in the UK.

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  A-Z of Invasive Marine Species: New Zealand Flat Oyster

  It still regarded as a potentially important commercial species but it is highly susceptible to a disease (Bonamiosis) caused by Bonamia sp.