After what seemed like a very long wait, the insects finally returned to Knighton in June. Spring 2023 seemed to be buried under a mountain of aphids – you may have noticed the sticky “honeydew” everywhere (exacerbated by the lack of rain). Finally in June the predators started to catch up. Ladybird pupae were abundant […]
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Small but perfectly formed
Alan Cann reports on the latest Knighton Wild foray into the wild. It never occurred to me when I suggested Knighton Wild might like to run a Big Bug Weekend that people might be expecting to find big bugs – tarantulas, praying mantis, etc. Instead of jungle giants, on our bug hunt we found tiny […]
The becoming of a wildflower meadow – postscript, a new discovery!
Editor – Uta has described how a group of allotmenteers set up a wildflower meadow at the Washbrook allotments in the first two episodes. Her story concludes here. Towards the end of June, Alan Cann, a local naturalist, visited the Washbrook Allotments to look for invertebrates in the wildflower meadow. Alan has a particular interest […]
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