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Purple Bar moth

This Purple Bar moth was trapped on Tuesday night. Roy Crossley, our friendly dipterist was in today and left with a fine….

Here you can see how far the workshop has come on. Harry is now working from a scaffold as he boards around the windows and….

It has been mixed weather today. Harry is back again working on the cladding of the new workshop. Hurrah! Through the scrapes….

Foxglove Covert Eco-Club had its third meeting today, the topic was moths. After identifying the moths caught overnight the….

Today Andrew has his first strimming session. He enjoyed cutting back the long grass on the path behind the lake hide. Andrew….

There were 94 moths in the trap this morning of 32 different species. The one we had most of was the Large Yellow Underwing.….

After a very wet Friday one of our paths had been washed out. The little ditch had overflowed right over the top of the bridge….

What a contrast to yesterday! The rain seems to have dried out already and the reserve is alive with butterflies. Species….

On one of the wettest days of the year so far we went for a team building walk with personnel from Wathgill and Warcop! We….