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  • Wasp Spider

    {showtime 5} It’s been a good year for wasp spiders. In the past I’ve always been so focussed on the spider that I overlooked the web, but this year I saw so many of the spiders that I started looking out for their webs and notices that some had a...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Theresa Radcliffe
    • Category: Invertebrates

  • The 'Black Adder'

    {showtime 7} So last week I caught my first ‘black adder’; this beautiful female. Having looked into melanism, Luiselli et al. (1994) suggest that although both males and females may be all black, it may be more common in females. Luiselli et al. (1994)...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Theresa Radcliffe
    • Category: Reptiles

  • Moon-gazing newts

    While trapping great crested newts from bunds prior to a restoration campaign, it occurred to me that there seemed to be a pattern to their movements that was not explained by weather conditions alone. A review of published studies identified two that...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Henry Andrews
    • Category: Amphibians
    • County: Worcestershire
    • Site Name: Hills Dish

  • Reptile grassland

    Grassland that is good for reptiles is variously grassland that is good for ants, amphibians and voles: ants create mounds of fine particles into which slow worms can burrow; grass snakes predate amphibians; and adders predate voles. It is often...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Henry Andrews
    • Category: Habitat
    • County: Hampshire
    • Site Name: West Heath

  • Mallard nest on carr woodland floor

    Working my way through willow and alder carr to find a historic decoy pond, I flushed a female mallard from a nest on the woodland floor. I’ve had them in forks of white and crack willow before, but always well over head-height… or so I thought… and...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Henry Andrews
    • Category: Birds
    • County: Worcestershire
    • Site Name: Ripple
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