From purple emperors to bush-crickets: Foxley Wood has it all
Our young blogger, Oscar, shares his love of Foxley Wood through the seasons, and reveals all about his first encounter with a purple emperor.
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Our young blogger, Oscar, shares his love of Foxley Wood through the seasons, and reveals all about his first encounter with a purple emperor.
Come along to this evening children's Wildlife Watch event for a walk around the nature reserve to discover the bats of NWT Hickling Broad.
The dark bush-cricket, as its name suggests, is dark brown or reddish. It can be found in woodlands, hedgerows and gardens throughout summer. Its irregular chirpings are a familiar sound of summer…
This scarce bush-cricket can be found on the boggy parts of heathlands.
A scrambling plant, Bush vetch has lilac-blue flowers. It is a member of the pea family and can be seen along woodland edges and roadside verges, and on scrubland and grassland.
The oak bush-cricket is arboreal and can be found in mature trees in woods, hedges, parks and gardens in summer. Males don't have a 'song' as such, but drum on leaves with their…
The speckled bush-cricket, as its name suggests, is covered in tiny, black speckles. It can be found in scrub, hedgerows and gardens throughout summer. Males rub their wings together to create a…
The song of the Roesel's bush-cricket is very characteristic: long, monotonous and mechanical. It can be heard in rough grassland, scrub and damp meadows in the south of the UK, but it is…
At nearly 7 cm long (including the female's long ovipositor), the great green bush-cricket certainly lives up to its name! It can be found in grassland, scrub and woodland rides in Southern…
We're delighted to be opening our new Norwich nature reserve this weekend and holding a series of free events.