Milton Keynes Natural History Society

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Upcoming Events

  • Tue
    23
    Apr
    2019

    Mapping Britain’s Moths

  • Tue
    30
    Apr
    2019

    Kingswood

  • Sat
    04
    May
    2019

    Howe Park Wood

 

Society News

  • 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
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Other News

  •  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
  • Australian skink lays eggs, then gives birth to live baby
  • 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
  • RSPBNBLG Walk – Nightingale time at Paxton Pits 27 April 2019
  • Specialist abseilers remove parts of controversial cliff netting at Bacton 
  • Heatwaves sweeping oceans ‘like wildfires’
  • Property developers row back on netting used to stop birds nesting
  • Moth Id – Orange Underwing
  • RSPB warns Bacton cliffs netting ‘could kill’ birds
  • Red wolf: the struggle to save one of the rarest animals on Earth
  • Inland Waterways Association MK branch winter programme 2018-19
  • 10 animals we are eating into extinction
  • Breeding ground correlates the decline of the Common Cuckoo
  • Moth Id – Dotted Border
  • Get Bucks Buzzing
  • Danish billionaires plan to rewild large swath of Scottish Highlands
  • Caring for the common frog
  • Distribution trends of European dragonflies under climate change 
  • Butterflies bounce back in heatwave summer
  • Dead whale had 40kg of plastic in its stomach
  • Chytrid fungus threatens even more amphibians than previously realised 
  • Deaf moths employ acoustic mimicry against bats
  • Gardeners asked to help on springtime slug hunt
  • How to identify House and Tree Sparrows
  • Moths to see in spring
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