Showing posts with label Volucella pellucens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Volucella pellucens. Show all posts
Monday, 20 July 2026

Seven Hours at Linacre!

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 Yesterday (19th), I had a couple of visits to Linacre. The first, from 06.00 - 09.30, was a ringing session, with 3 other members of Sorby ...
Thursday, 31 July 2025

Another new species for Linacre!

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 I've had a couple of 2-hour visits to Linacre this week and managed to record lots of insects, including a new species! The first walk,...
Saturday, 31 August 2024

Linacre - 31st August 2024

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 Based on the year so far, this afternoon's walk around Linacre, was by far the best one for insects this summer. In total, I saw 7 diff...
Sunday, 16 June 2024

Linacre Insects - 3 new species!

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 The summer of 2024 has, so far, been pretty awful weather wise, with very few periods of dry, warm weather. Today, the temperature managed ...
Tuesday, 15 August 2023

Linacre - 13th August 2023

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 I had two hours down at Linacre on Saturday afternoon (1pm - 3.15pm). The weather was okay, at 18 degrees, overcast and breezy, but with a ...
Saturday, 24 June 2023

Linacre - 24th June 2023

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 This morning I had three hours walking around Linacre, checking the nestboxes, carrying out this month's WeBS  count, and looking at th...
Thursday, 19 August 2021

Volucella zonaria at Linacre - 17th August 2021

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 I had my forst visit to Linacre since betting back from Cornwall, on Tuesday. It was a very grey, overcast day, with a maximum of 16 degree...
Sunday, 25 July 2021

White-letter and Purple Hairstreaks!!

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It was 22 degrees again today, so Jayne ad I had a walk around Linacre this afternoon. The top reservoir was closed off as the boardwalk is ...

Hardwick Ponds - 24th July 2021

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 Jayne and I had a walk around the ponds at Hardwick Hall yesterday. It was 20 degrees, with a lot of cloud cover and a few sunny spells. Wh...
Friday, 23 July 2021

Linacre Ringing - 18th July 2021

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Last Sunday I was down at Linacre for a mist netting session with Sorby Breck Ringing Group . It was our first session since May, and we man...
Wednesday, 12 August 2020

Linacre - 12th August 2020

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 The temperature was a cracking 27 degrees again today, so I decided to have a couple of hours down at Linacre to see which insects I could ...
Wednesday, 22 July 2020

Linacre - 22nd July 2020

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I had a couple of hours at Linacre this afternoon. When I arrived at 12.30pm it was grey, overcast and just 17 degrees. I started down at th...
Monday, 26 August 2019

LINACRE LIFER!!!

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It was about 20 degrees on Thursday, so I popped down to Linacre in the afternoon for 3 hours to see what was about. In the sun there were l...
Wednesday, 7 August 2019

Linacre Insects - 6th August 2019

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Yesterday morning I went down to Linacre to do the final check of the nestboxes (more of that in another post), and afterwards spent anothe...
Monday, 15 July 2019

Linacre WeBS - July 2019

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Luke and I were down at Linacre this weekend to carry out July's WeBS count. As usual for this time of the year there were lots of you...
Monday, 18 June 2018

Linacre Insects - June 2018

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This is my first post of 2018 about the insect life that can be found at Linacre. I had a visit on 1st June when it was a lovely sunny day. ...