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Country Side Summer 2018 Spring & Summerr 2018 CONTENTS Vol. 34 No. 8 Editorial 2 ISSN No.00II-023X Natural History Observations 2 The Charter of the Forest 1217 4 Founded by E. Kay Robinson in 1905 Stripey Garden Flies 6 Editor Michael Demidecki What you could find in your garden, Layout and typesetting Bryan Sherwood if you look? Printing Corsham Print Limited. Pemphigus spyrothecae 11 Tel: 01225 812930 a cause of early leaf-drop from Lombardy poplar Country-Side is published by British Naturalists’ Association © 2018 Keeping our sea walls buzzing 13 Registered Charity Number 296551 Of Beauties, Brimstones, 15 A Company limited by guarantee. Thorns and Carpets Registered no: 2119195 From Tokyo with Tanka 19 British Naturalists' Association Wild Boar 21 Contact details: in the Forest of Dean Post: BM 8129, London WC1N 3XX, UK World War 2 22 E-mail: [email protected] BENA and Country-Side Telephone: 0844 8921817 Website: www.bna-naturalists.org Book Reviews 27 Hon. President Professor David Bellamy Hon. Chairman Roger Tabor Hon. Vice Presidents Professor Alastair Fitter Centre Panel Pictures Front Cover: Chinese water deer David Hosking, Tony Soper, Simon King, Top: Hoverflies (p.6) Joanna Lumley, Julian Pettifer, Photo: Mark Dudley in stubble field, Buckinghamshire Lord Skelmersdale, Commander Michael Photo: Michael Demidecki Saunders Watson, Dr June Chatfield, Bill Oddie, Middle: Magpie moth (p.15) Nick Baker, Roger Tabor Photo: Paul D. Brock Back Cover: Medieval bank, Writtle Forest, Essex Editor's contact details: Bottom: Wild boar (p.21) Photo: Roger Tabor Post: BM 8129, BNA, The editor, Photo: Michael Demidecki London WC1N 3XX, UK Notes for Contributors The editor of Country-Side is always glad to receive articles, photographs or drawings for inclusion in the magazine. Contributors are reminded that: (1) manuscripts must be submitted in electronic form, by disk or e-mail together with hard copy, with accompanying photographs and/or drawings; (2) taxonomic names should be in italics; (3) BNA reserve the right to publish any contribution or part thereof received on its website; (4) an abstract not exceeding 50 words should accompany each article; (5) BNA reserve the right to lay out an article in the style adopted in Country-Side. Please note that Copy for future issues of Country-Side should be sent to the Editor. Each contribution is accepted on the understanding that it is original and unpublished and will be in no way whatsoever a violation or infringement of any existing copyright or licence, that it contains nothing libellous and that all statements contained therein purporting to be fact are true and that any recipes or formulae or instruction contained therein are not injurious to the user. While every care is taken with submitted material, neither the publishers, nor the printers nor the British Naturalists' Association (BNA) can be responsible for loss or damage, however caused. The opinions expressed in editorial material do not necessarily represent the views of the BNA and the opinions expressed by the contributors are not necessarily those of either the Editor, Features Editor or BNA. All advertisements are accepted on the understanding that any description of goods, services or accommodation is accurate and true. Although every effort is made to ensure that the information given in advertisements is correct and reliable, the publishers and/or BNA can accept no responsibility nor give any guarantee as to the quality of any product, service or accommodation advertised or as to condition or delivery in the case of any product. Recommendation of any advertisement is not to be implied. The publishers and/or the BNA can accept no responsibility for any loss from the publication or non-publication of any advertisement. If anyone has not received due acknowledgement, the omission is quite unintentional and will be corrected if information of the error is supplied. Copy may be e-mailed to [email protected] Deadline for next edition: 15 September 2018 Natural History Observations While proof reading this latest issue of Country-Side I was struck by how diverse are the interests that keep us together as an Association. There are articles here that help with species identification (see page 6 for hoverflies and page 15 for geometrid moths), and others about the history of the countryside (‘The Charter of the Forest 1217’ at page 4) and indeed of the Association itself (‘World War 2 BENA and Country-Side’ at page 22). Natural history observations are included as is an article suggesting steps that could be taken to conserve the shrill carder bee on our sea walls (‘Keeping our sea walls buzzing’ at page 13), as well as one about early leaf-drop from Lombardy poplar trees (at page 11). Japanese, natural history inspired, poetry also finds a place (‘From Tokyo with Tanka’ at page 19). All of this brings us together as an Association and it is our diverse interests and friendships made that have kept the Association going since 1905. One person who has helped us along the way was the late Alida Butcher who was our Hon. Secretary from 1971-1978. We are very grateful to Alida and extend our condo- lences to her family on her recent passing. Obituary Natural History Society, Kenneth celebrations were held for her 99th Alida Butcher becoming their president and Alida birthday (see report of this in British 18.06.1917– 15.03.2018 their Hon. Secretary. They joined the Naturalist, September 2016) and for British Naturalists’ Association in her 100th birthday in 2017. On this 1965. Alida was a competent botanist last occasion Dr. June Chatfield and a skilled wild flower photographer, attended on behalf of BNA and and her photos were used to illustrate presented Alida with a bunch of 100 several books and magazines; she was red roses sent by Roger Tabor, awarded “Best Botanical” at the Chairman of BNA for the Worcestershire International Association. They were obviously photographic competition in 1968. miniature roses to give the numbers Alida and Kenneth moved to and Alida’s botanical eye was still Hampshire in 1970, at first living in operating well as her comment was Four Marks near Alton, and in 1971 “they are rather small for roses!” The Alida became Hon. Secretary of BNA, traditional 100th birthday wishes card Alida Butcher was born in Shalford, a post she held until 1978. from the Queen was on display. near Braintree, Essex, living under the In 1982 Alida left Four Marks, Alida leaves two daughters and a shadow and influence of the moving to Alresford, and she continued son. Her ashes are to be interred outstanding naturalist, John Ray. In to find new plants on the weekly walks together with those of her husband, 1939 she married Kenneth and the she organised there – she would often Kenneth, in St. Mary’s churchyard, Wirral, Cheshire became their first send plant specimens to Kew to be Selborne, Hampshire. For Alida it is home. In 1946 the family moved to identified. Her botanical interests took full circle, for having ended her days Bradford, Yorkshire and it was there her to 16 European countries. She was she will be in the close landscape that Alida’s and Kenneth’s natural well into her 90s when she moved to a forever now of another great history interest began to flourish. They care home in Sussex to be near her son naturalist, Gilbert White. took an active part in the Bradford Patrick, and it was there that May her soul rest in peace. Hair ice and fungi brought in on an ipad by a volunteer garden and surrounding woodland at June Chatfield FBNA came with a ready-made answer in a Waggoners Wells, Surrey. This cutting from The Times (23rd January fortuitously coincided with a note on Haslemere Educational Museum 2017). Barbara Williams had spotted “hair ice” in Paul Simmons’s Weather continues to be a source of interesting and photographed a patch of needle- Eye column in The Times. The natural history queries but a photograph like ice crystals on dead wood in her phenomenon was described a century 2 Country-Side Spring & Summer 2018 www.bna-naturalists.org Natural History Observations ago by the German Alfred Wegener of Continental Drift fame who, seeing fungal hyphae in the wood, suggested that fungi were involved in the making of hair ice. In 2015 scientists from Germany and Switzerland identified the species of fungus as Exidiopsis effusa that affects the water drawn out of fine pores in the wood turning it into thin threads of ice. Wood treated with fungicide in which the fungi would have been killed just had a smooth ice crust Hair ice flowers and no needles. Look out for it on rotten Photos: Barbara Williams logs this winter. Chinese water deer eating sloes one another, otherwise the others were she had been lying on. There were some on their own. Some were resting in fruit stones here, which we believe were Michael Demidecki FBNA stubble fields, their long ears and backs those of sloes (blackthorn). The doe & Jum Demidecki visible above the stubble. We walked presumably had been chewing the ‘cud’ over one such stubble field towards a while she had been lying down and had In November 2016 we were out female resting in the groove made by a spat out the stones. watching Chinese water deer in tractor wheel. We got quite close before We don’t know if this has been Buckinghamshire. Two were near to she ran off and found the flattened area recorded before. Chinese water deer lying in stubble Chinese water deer in stubble Chinese water deer (where sloe stones were later found) getting up from where sloe stones were found resting area with sloe stones Photo: Michael Demidecki Photo: Michael Demidecki Photo: Michael Demidecki Coo the Black and White Cat Catches a Piebald Woodmouse familiar trophies of the said cat but a June Chatfield FBNA special feature of this one was the pale patches on the flanks.
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