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>Back to Orange Project 2008-2010 – Jenny Joy
Dr. Jenny Joy from Butterfly Conservation describes the outcomes that have been achieved during this project to help lepidoptera, and particularly fritillary butterflies, in the Wyre Forest. Thanks are given to funders SITA Trust, Heritage Lottery Fund and other partners. (From the Wyre Forest Study Group’s REVIEW 2010)
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>Results for the Earnwood Pipeline Butterfly Transect 2005-2010 – Owen Tudor
Owen Tudor provides the results of his butterfly transect during this 6 year period, noting annual frequencies and index of diversity deduced for each year. (From the Wyre Forest Study Group’s REVIEW 2010)
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>Note on the Common Fan-foot Pechipogo strigulata in Wyre – Denise Bingham
Denise Bingham describes her find of Common Fan-foot larvae in dead leaves on an oak tree growing in an open exposed position in contrast to the more usual sheltered woodland in which it is normally found. (From the Wyre Forest Study Group’s REVIEW 2010)
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>Creatures of the Dark! – Rosemary Winnall
This article describes the search for the elusive cave spider Meta menardi in the Wyre Forest. (From Wyre Forest Study Group’s REVIEW 2009)
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>The Back to Orange Project – Jenny Joy
The Back to Orange Project – Jenny Joy Dr. Jenny Joy from Butterfly Conservation describes the plans for the three year ‘Back to Orange’ project in the Wyre Forest, part of the Landscape Partnership Scheme ‘Grow With Wyre’ led by the Forestry Commission. With funding from Sita Trust, woodland management work will be undertaken to [...]
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>Recording at Moth Traps – Rosemary Winnall
Recording at Moth Traps – Rosemary Winnall Rosemary Winnall encourages moth recorders to look more carefully at other animal visitors to their light traps and she describes some species that she has observed and recorded. (From the Wyre Forest Study Group’s REVIEW 2003)
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>The Status and Habitats of the Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary Butterfly in Wyre Forest 2002 – Jenny Joy
The Status and Habitats of the Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary Butterfly in Wyre Forest 2002 – Jenny Joy The Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary Boloria selene has declined in Britain in recent years. It is still present in the Wyre Forest and Jenny Joy documents its status and habitat requirements. (Wyre Forest Study Group REVIEW 2002)
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>Moth Trapping at Wyre Forest Royal Ordnance Site 1997-1999 – Godfrey Blunt & Michael Taylor
Moth trapping, using several light traps, took place one evening a month in Postensplain, Shropshire and a list of the macromoths recorded is listed. Godfrey Blunt writes about the micromoths identified in a separate article in Wyre Forest Study Group REVIEW 2002. (From Wyre Forest Study Group REVIEW 2001).
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>Butterflies of Wyre Forest – Frank Lancaster
Frank Lancaster notes how important Wyre is for butterflies with half of the British species being recorded from the forest. He writes about the importance of appropriate management for lepidoptera and provides a table of his butterfly records from his transect along Dowles Brook (Shropshire) for 11 years from 1989 to 1999. (From Wyre Forest Study [...]
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>Moth Recording at Park House, Wyre 2000 – Tony Simpson & Rosemary Winnall
Moth Recording at Park House, Wyre 2000 – Tony Simpson & Rosemary Winnall This article shows the results of using light traps at Park House in the Wyre Forest monthly from May to September 2000. This first appeared in the Wyre Forest Study Group REVIEW 2000.
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