Baggeridge Country Park, a beautiful area of countryside on the edge of the Black Country
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This was a nice surprise this morning. There's green moths then there's GREEN moths. This one is Green Arches 🙂
Just checked and the Frosted Greens from the other night were new park records, so to get two was rather nice 😊😊
Not many moths but nice. Frosted Green, Red Twin spot Carpet, Chocolate Tip and Lunar Marbled Brown amongst them 😊
A new moth record for the park. Coleophora paripennella feeding on Knapweed 😊 #teammoth
What an interesting night, not great numbers but quality. Acleris umbrana, Nat Scarce A. Pammene giganteana Nat Scarce B. Both new records and a poss 1st staffs. And a nice Shoulder Stripe, last park record 2006. 😊
Another great day at the brilliant Staffordshire Invertebrate Science Fair. Just full of interesting and interested people and inverts galore 😊 Big thank you to Dave and Andy for organising @SISF_2025 really appreciate it 👍👍👍
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The final piece of the jigsaw is complete - the talks. We have a busy schedule of talks next Saturday (March 1st). Something for everyone including the Young Verrall Lecture presented by @benclunie from @HAU_Entomology.You can find out more on our Facebook page (@staffsbugfest)
Small Brindled Beauty in the trap this morning 😊 A new record for the park. Looks like very few Staffs records . #teammoth
The Bagot Boys are back.
They've been indoors for a few days as they had to be tested for TB. They've all come back clear so now they are back out munching on their favourite, spiky and prickly stuff 🙂
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We've finalised the Staffordshire University's Children's University list of activities. The passport is filled with a fantastic variety of things to achieve for your kids while you are walking around chatting to the societies.
See you all on March 1st @ Staffs Uni.
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You can find more about the Staffordshire Invertebrate Science Fair on our page. It is a free invertebrate conservation event hosted at Staffordshire University and run by @StaffsInverts . It is on Saturday March 1st. Perfect for all ages and levels of interest.
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Staffordshire is home to one of the scarcest of all the dragonflies, the white-faced darter. It is so scarce that reintroductions have taken place to former sites in Cheshire to try to support the declining species.
It can be found in Staffordshire at Chartley Moss SSSI.
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You can meet Trine from @Riverflies at this year's SISF on Saturday March 1st @SUBioscience . There will also be the usual pond dipping stall with @NickMott7 and Andy Farmer, so plenty of aquatics for those interested in our waterways. @HAU_Entomology @KeeleUniversity @EnvAgency
#RiverflySpotlight
Olives have small leaf-like gills and are probably the most pollution tolerant of the mayflies 💦
#Entomology #AquaticEcology #Freshwater #Baetidae #Olives #RiverflyPartnership
The weather clouded over last night sfter a clear start. Think that change helped bring in these 2 to the trap. Dotted Border and another Early Moth 🙂
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Loads going on again at this year's @SISF_2025. Some fab talks and all the usual stalls and societies in attendance. Nice to have a few new societies and faces coming too to keep growing and evolving the event. Saturday March 1st, @staffsuni and hosted by @StaffsInverts.
Not long now B4 wood ants wake up & cluster on top of their nests 2 warm up in the early spring sunshine.Staffs holds a regionally important population of these scarce ants.U can find them at just 3 sites in Staffs, 1 is @CannockChaseNL who'll B @SISF_2025 this year.
Trip to @StaffsWildlife Highgate common today and found my first ever Bagworm.
Narycia duplicella, White-speckled Bagworm. 😊
The larva of these moths feed on lichen and make a case covered in bits of lichen, good camouflage.