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PUBLISHED BY RUGBY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY www.rugbynaturalhistory.org.uk Newsletter No 242 PRESIDENT – Mr F Pearson August 2016 CHAIRMAN Mr T Landless, 27 Spicer Place, Rugby. VICE – CHAIRMAN Mr L Classey, 13 Orson Leys, Rugby. HON SECRETARY Mrs W Classey, 13 Orson Leys, Rugby. HON TREASURER Mr D Knapp, 44 Orson Leys, Rugby. PROGRAMME SECS Mr P Hodges & Mrs J Tolley-Hodges 30 Rupert Brooke Road, Rugby. NEWSLETTER EDITOR Mr M Slater, 44 Bucknill Crescent, Hillmorton. With this issue of the newsletter it is time again to look forward to the winter programme of talks, we start on 15th September with Sea life, followed by subjects as diverse as harvest mice, bees and dragonflies. Our year ends in December with the ever popular Photographic competition. We also have field meetings at Crackley Wood, Wappenbury Wood and a fungi foray to round off our summer programme. Brandon Marsh SSSI – 7.April.2016 Eleven members attended – Paul Hodges, Tony Landless, Ted Pearson, Lyn Classey, David Champion, Bernard Smith, Roger & Kath Jones, Jan & Kay, also Peter Reeve. The weather was typically sunny but with April Showers. The highlight birdwise was a Summer plumaged Black-tailed Godwit on Teal Pool that most members of RNHS Saw through Paul’s Telescope. Also good close up views of 4 Snipe & 5 Redshanks. Summer Migrants included Swallows, Sand Martins, Chiffchaffs, Willow Warblers and Blackcaps. Residents included- Cetti’s Warblers, Reed Buntings, Kestrel, Stock Doves, Lapwings, Oystercatchers, Teal, Mallard, Gadwall, Common Gull, Black-headed Gulls, Lesser Black-backed Gulls, Pied Wagtails, Great Spotted & Green Woodpeckers, Chaffinches, Greenfinches, Great Tits, Blue Tits, Coal Tits, Marsh Tits, Wrens, Dunnocks, Robins, Song Thrushes, Mistle Thrushes, Blackbirds, Carrion Crows, Jackdaws, Magpies & Rooks, Water Rails, Moorhens, Coots, Canada Geese, Greylag Geese, Tufted Ducks, Great Crested Grebes, Shovelers and Winter migrants Pintails. Flora- Primroses, Cowslips in flower, Ground Ivy in flower, Alexanders in flower, lesser Celandines in flower, White Dead Nettles, Red Dead Nettles, Blackthorn in blossom. Sallows with catkins, Hazel with Catkins, Hornbeam with Catkins, Alder with Catkins and Lombardy Poplar with bud burst. Fungi- Scarlet Elf Cups, Green stain/Elf cups fungi, Jelly Ears, White Oysters, Grey Oysters, Glistening Ink Caps, Turkey Tails, Blushing Brackets, Orange Jelly Spots. Lichens – Xanthoria paritina, Evernia prunasti, Bees – Buff Tailed Bumble Bee Queens, Honey Bees. P&JT-H Ryton Wood – 23.April.2016 Ten people, sunny but cool to start with. Warmed up as we explore sheltered glades and rides. We even stumbled over an example of Industrial archaeology. Flora Cherry in flower, Bluebells, Wood Anemone, Leaves on Hazel, Common Dog Violet, Early Dog Violet, Wild Clematis, Aspen, Ladies Smock, Holly, Primroses, Honeysuckle, Dandelion, Willowherb, Lesser Celandine, Greater Stitchwort, Blackthorn, Wavy-leaved Bittercress, Lesser Spearwort, Horse Chestnut, Ash, Vetch, Wild Strawberry, Common-spotted Orchid in leaves, Bugle, Selfheal, Wood Sorrel. Birds Woodpigeon, Crow, Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler, Song Thrush, Wren, Robin, Green Woodpecker, Stock Dove, Blue Tit, Long-tailed Tits, Black-headed Gulls, Sparrowhawk, Nuthatch. ~ - 2 - ~ Butterflies Orange-tip (male and female), Peacock, Speckled Wood. Insects Poplar Beetle, Bee Fly, Huntsman Spider, Leaf Miner, White-tailed Bumblebee. Fungi Willow Polypore, Turkey Tail, Sulphur Tuft. Others Bat boxes, Dormouse boxes, Froglets, Rabbit droppings, Lichens, evidence of Grey Squirrel and Muntjac activity. MS Dunchurch Meadows – 14.May.2016 Twenty one members and two guests attended the meeting at Dunchurch Meadows. In Warwickshire Draycote Meadows SSSI was celebrated as the coronation meadow and a receptor site at Dunchurch was chosen to be restored using the green hay from Draycote, the trust manages the meadow by cutting and grazing. Flora Green Winged Orchids, Yellow Rattle, Common Field Speedwell, Field Forget-me-not, Wood Forget-me-not, Pignut, Meadow Buttercup, Ground Ivy, Red Clover, Broad-leaved Dock, Sorrel, Creeping Thistle, Spear Thistle, Ragwort, Creeping Buttercups, Bulbous Buttercup, Lesser Celandine, Cut-leaved Cranesbill, Cleavers/Goosegrass, Common Nettle, Perennial Rye Grass, White Clover, Thyme-leaved Speedwell, Meadow Foxtail, Meadow Fescue, Ribwort Plantain. Sweet Vernal Grass, Timothy, Cocksfoot, Cow Parsley, Great Willowherb, Hedge Woundwort, Spring Beauty, Soft Brome, Creeping Bent, Cowslips. ~ - 3 - ~ Birds Whitethroat, Blackcap, Garden Warbler, Robin, Blackbird, Song thrush, Greenfinch, Buzzard, swallow, House Martin, Swift. Mammals Fox, Badger, rabbit. Hedgerow Guelder Rose, Hawthorn, Blackthorn, Oak, Hazel, Norway Maple, Bird Cherry. Beetles Cardinal Beetles – Red Headed- Pyrochroa serraticommis. 7- Spot Ladybird – Coccinella 7- punctata Fungi Petticoat Mottlegill- Panaeolus papilionaceus (Panaeolus sphinctrinus)-Weathered Dung of Herbivores Dung Roundhead – Stropharia semiglobata var. stercoraria Dung of Herbivores on Grassland. P&JT-H RNHS Moth Morning, 10th June 2016 at Roy and Biddy Allen's 26 members enjoyed a warm but cloudy morning and looked at and identified the following moths from moth traps belonging to Roy and Biddy Allen, Graham Robson, Paul and Janice Hodges and David and Sue Knapp. (Graham's trap was the star performer!) Angle Shades, Bright line Brown Eye, Brimstone, Brown Rustic, Buff Ermine, Clouded Bordered Brindle, Clouded Silver, Common Marbled Carpet, Common Pug, Common Swift, Common Wainscot, Dark Arches, Elephant Hawkmoth, Eyed Hawkmoth, Flame, Flame Shoulder, Foxglove Pug, Garden Carpet, Ghost Moth, Green Pug, Grey Pug, Heart and Dart, Ingrailed Clay, Large Nutmeg, Large ~ - 4 - ~ Yellow Underwing, Lime Hawkmoth, Marbled Minor, Middle Bar Minor, Mottled Pug, Orange Footman, Pale Tussock, Peach Blossom. Riband Wave, Rustic Shoulder Knot, Scorched Wing, Setaceous Hebrew Character, Shuttle-shaped Dart, Shoulder Strip Wainscot, Silver Ground Carpet, Silver Y, Small Clouded Brindle, Small Fan-foot, Small Square Spot, Smoky Wainscot, Spectacle, Tawny Marbled Minor, Treble Lines, White Ermine, White Spotted Pug. Several Micro-moths were identified but the only ones with English names were Diamond- back, Small Magpie and Bee Moth. Scoparice ambigualis, Epinotia biluana and Notocelia cynosbatella were three with only Latin names, there were plenty of unidentified others! There were also some Cockchafer beetles and a water beetle in Graham's trap. An interesting drama, witnessed by several members, was an Eyed Hawkmoth that flew off being taken by a frog leaping up from the pond. The Eyed Hawk eventually escaped (with a little human intervention as it was rejected by the frog) I think it was just too big for the frog! Biddy Allen Tasker's Meadow & Stockton Cutting -25.June.2016 Approximately 11 Members arrived for the trip and managed to get very wet! It was good to see several new members. We carried on with the trip despite some heavy rain. Everyone was pleased to see plenty of Butterfly, Bee and Common Spotted Orchids in Tasker's Meadow and an abundance of Yellow Rattle was evident. In Stockton Cutting we saw a good number of Common Twayblade plants just finishing flowering. 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Birds Bullfinches, Great Tits, Blue Tits, Nuthatch, Robin, Great-spotted Woodpecker, Blackbird, Long Tailed Tits. Insects Silver Washed Fritillaries, Speckled Wood, Large White, Comma, Small Tortoiseshell, Peacock, Hoverflies, Tree Bumblebees. P&JT-H Loxley Church Meadow SSSI – 21.July.2016 ~ - 6 - ~ Flora Meadowsweet – Filipendula ulmaria, Meadow Cranesbill – Geranium pratense, Great Willowherb – Epilobium hirsutum, Grey Poplars – Populus x canescens, White Poplar – Populus alba, White Willows – Salix alba, Ash – Fraxinus excelsior, Pedunculate Oak – Quercus robur, Field Maple – Acer Campstre, Yellow Meadow Vetchling – Lathyrus
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  • Reference Plant List

    Reference Plant List

    APPENDIX J NATIVE & INVASIVE PLANT LIST The following tables capture the referenced plants, native and invasive species, found throughout this document. The Wildlife Action Plan Team elected to only use common names for plants to improve the readability, particular for the general reader. However, common names can create confusion for a variety of reasons. Common names can change from region-to-region; one common name can refer to more than one species; and common names have a way of changing over time. For example, there are two widespread species of greasewood in Nevada, and numerous species of sagebrush. In everyday conversation generic common names usually work well. But if you are considering management activities, landscape restoration or the habitat needs of a particular wildlife species, the need to differentiate between plant species and even subspecies suddenly takes on critical importance. This appendix provides the reader with a cross reference between the common plant names used in this document’s text, and the scientific names that link common names to the precise species to which writers referenced. With regards to invasive plants, all species listed under the Nevada Revised Statute 555 (NRS 555) as a “Noxious Weed” will be notated, within the larger table, as such. A noxious weed is a plant that has been designated by the state as a “species of plant which is, or is likely to be, detrimental or destructive and difficult to control or eradicate” (NRS 555.05). To assist the reader, we also included a separate table detailing the noxious weeds, category level (A, B, or C), and the typical habitats that these species invade.