Brecknock Nature Reserves Update August 2023
It's been a busy summer for our Brecknock team with lots of work on balsam and bracken!
It's been a busy summer for our Brecknock team with lots of work on balsam and bracken!
The Dark bush-cricket, as its name suggests, is dark brown or reddish. It can be found in woodlands, hedgerows and gardens throughout summer. Its irregular chirpings are a familiar sound of summer…
Familiar as the bristly plant that easily hooks on to our clothing as we walk through the countryside or do the gardening, cleavers uses its hooks to help it climb and to disperse its seeds.
Late summer is the best time to discover one of the UK’s chunkiest caterpillars, the elephant hawk-moth.
The Notch-horned cleg-fly isa horse fly dark grey in colour, with grey-brown mottled wings and intricately striped, iridescent eyes. There are 30 species of horse-fly in the UK; this is one of the…
The large, fluffy caterpillars of this moth are often seen in summer and early spring.
Heralding spring, a carpet of sunshine-yellow lesser celandine flowers is a joy to see on a woodland walk. Look out for it along hedgerows, in parks and even in graveyards, too, from March onwards…
Ancient broadleaved woodland with some scrub and a meadow. Part of the Nant Whitton Woods SSSI.
This distinctive bug is often seen basking on low-growing plants in spring and summer.
Many of us have felt the painful bite of the Twin-lobed deer-fly (a 'horse-fly') while out walking in damp grasses or woods. But mostly, it prefers to feed on the blood of cows and…
Bilberries appear in summer and early autumn and are often turned into jams, pies and sauces...
This bog-loving butterfly is mostly found in the north of the UK, where it takes to the wing in summer.