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5 Best Butterfly Sites in Milton Keynes

Silver-washed Fritillary by Harry Appleyard, North Bucks Way 21 July 2016

Silver-washed Fritillary by Harry Appleyard, North Bucks Way 21 July 2016

Local blogger, Ashley Beolens describes what he considers to be the top 5 butterfly sites in Milton Keynes – Source: 5 Best Butterfly Sites in Milton Keynes – Views From An Urban Lake

This entry was posted in News on 19/04/2018 by admin.

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  • Deadline for the next edition of The Magpie
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  • Moth Notes 19 April 2019
    Lunar Marbled Brown and Frosted Green moths ©Gordon Redford, Little Linford Wood 16 April 2019
  • Moth Notes 10 April 2019
    Beautifully marked Dotted Border ©Gordon Redford
  • Book now for Return to Nature with Nick Baker
  • Moth notes 29 March 2019

Other News

  • Let Nature Sing: help get birdsong into the charts
  • Fly of the month – St Marks fly
  • Volunteers needed for a new dormice survey!
  • Turtles’ absence from Nicaraguan stronghold raises alarm for future
  • Scale of fox hunting killing
  • Bee-fly Watch 2019
  • RSPBNBLG Talk – What’s happening now in conservation 9 May 2019
  • NERC invests £1.3 million  public engagement project
  • Task Sunday at Linford Lakes NR 5 May 2019
  • Wild Justice wins its first legal challenge
  • Mass killing of geese on Islay must cease
  • What is your favourite bird species?
  • Garden Butterfly Survey for 2019
  • Talk – Butterflies of Milton Keynes 8 May 2019
  • Why Solitary Bees are Such Amazing Pollinators
  • Silphidae Recording Scheme
  • Great Barrier Reef suffers 89% collapse in new coral
  • Butterfly Easter Eggs
  • Fantastic flies
  • Marine plastic pollution costs the world up to $2.5tn a year
  • Ten of the Best Nature Murals
  • Trees are crucial for the temperature and future of our cities
  • RSPB resigns from government’s pesticides forum
  •  What’s your diet’s carbon footprint?
  • Butterfly numbers fall by 84% in Netherlands
  • Counting orangutans using star-spotting technology
  • Largest ever survey of England’s forest wildlife
  • Dozens of dead possums blamed on extreme heat stress
  • Moth Id – Yellow Horned
  • Mutilated dolphins wash up on French coast in record numbers
  • Rewilding vs climate breakdown
  • April Tips from the Secret Gardener
  • Fly of the month – bee-flies
  • The Bramble Cay melomys is climate change’s first mammal extinction victim
  • Hunt accused of illegally targeting fox cubs
  • Hope for the rare white-letter hairstreak
  • Campaign to save oceans maps out global network of sanctuaries
  • Giant Tesco and the Tiny Swallow
  • Bees can do arithmetic
  • Fossil of ancient four-legged whale with hooves discovered
  • Let nature heal climate and biodiversity crises
  • Petition – Grant legal protection to Swallow, Swift and Martin nest sites not just nests. 
  • Go wild for ponds!
  • The Big Forest Find
  • EU bans UK’s most-used pesticide
  • Bavaria to pass ‘save the bees’ petition into law
  • Moth Id – Red Sword-grass
  • New study models the proposed reintroduction of the Eurasian lynx to Scotland
  • Sexism in conservation
  • Deadly skin-eating fungal disease wipes out 90 amphibian species in 50 years
  • The Great Fen Newsletter April 2019
  • Fungus Walk Hockeridge Wood 28 April 2019
  • Climate change is pushing wildlife ‘out of sync’
  • Footage of a rare wild ocelot in Arizona
  • Developer fined for destroying bat home
  • Rare bumblebee to get boost from bilberries in cages
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