Annual Review 2010 If we and the rest of the back-boned were to disappear overnight, the rest of the world would get on pretty well. But if the invertebrates were to disappear, the world’s ecosystems would collapse Sir David Attenborough

A big thank you... We are grateful to the following Association (INCA), Jack Patston Charitable organisations that have provided financial Trust, Jenny Swales, Kemerton Conservation To the many people and organisations who support or other gifts this year: Trust, Lantoom Quarry, Lockerbie Wildlife have given us so much support and help this A&N Daniel Charitable Trust, Aggregate Trust, Lucite International, Manifold Trust, year; our members and donors, who have Industries, Aggregates Levy Sustainability Mitchell Trust, Mohamed bin Zayed Species contributed enormously; our staff who have Fund, Anglian Water, AS Butler Charitable Conservation Fund, National Trust, National worked tirelessly to promote invertebrate Trust, Ashendene Trust, Biodiversity Action Trust for Scotland, Natural England, Natural conservation; and our trustees who have Fund, Birdsong Charity Consulting, British History Museum, News International, Norfolk enthusiastically and professionally overseen Arachnological Society, Broads Authority, Biodiversity Partnership, North East Scotland Buglife. A special mention goes to all of Buglife’s Bromley Trust, BTCV Natural Talent, BTCV Biological Records Centre, Oxford University volunteers for the huge contribution they have Scotland, Cecil Pilkington Charitable Trust, made this year. Thanks also to our dedicated Central Scotland Green Network Development Museum of Natural History, Patagonia, Perth President and Vice-Presidents for promoting Fund, City of London Corporation, Coda Museum & Art Gallery, Philip Parker Associates invertebrate conservation so effectively. Widlife Trust, Contract System Management Ltd, Pilkington General Charity, Plymouth City Ltd, Countdown 2010, Countryside Council for Museum & Art Gallery, Rhododendron Trust, Wales, Darwin Initiative, Defra, Derek & Clare River Thames Guide, Robertson Trust, Ryklow Stevens Trust, Dulverston Trust, Dumfries & Charitable Trust, Scottish Natural Heritage, Galloway Environmental Resources Centre, Scottish Water, Sita Trust, Skills Funding Environment Agency, Environmental Land Agency, Strathspey Waste Action Network, Management Division Agri-Environmental TCHC Training Business Advice, Tees Valley Policy & Evaluation Branch, Epping Forest Wildlife Trust, The Engine Group, The River Burial Park, Ernest Cook Trust, Ernest Kleinwort Thames Guide Ltd, The Tubney Charitable Charitable Trust , Esme Mitchell Trust, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Field Studies Council, Trust, The Will Charitable Trust, Ultimate Froglife, Garfield Weston Foundation, Hanson Holding Company, University of Plymouth, Aggregates, Hanson Brick, Harrow Lawn Veolia ES Cleanaway Trusts, Warren Evans, Wessex Water, Whitley Wildlife Conservation Silver-studded blue (Plebejus argus) Tennis Club, Humber INCA, Huntsmans Quarries, Industry & Nature Conservation Trust, William Haddon Trust, WREN

2 A word from our Chair

I am pleased to report that 2010 has With support from Defra and a range In late summer we asked the public been an exciting year full of new of experts and specialist organisations, to sign a stop swatting pledge and to conservation work and the development Buglife has produced a series of appreciate social rather than of plans to grow Buglife as a charity, so management advice sheets to encourage demonizing them! The campaign was that we are stronger and can do more landowners to improve farmland habitats led by Buglife Vice-President Nick Baker. to conserve bugs into the future. for rare and threatened invertebrates. During 2010, Buglife was presented Protecting and improving habitats We have continued to implement with a great opportunity by the Tubney for invertebrates is a vital element our Strategy for Scottish Invertebrate Charitable Trust. The Trust funded of Buglife’s work and this year with Conservation, and this year we an ongoing eight-month piece of work support from SITA Enriching Nature undertook a ‘stock take’ on the state to enable us to look at how we could we started work on a three-year project of invertebrate knowledge in Scotland and should grow and develop Buglife in Teesside, focussed around the old and produced a series of habitat guides. as a charity - all with the ultimate colliery workings and petrochemical Thanks to Scottish Natural Heritage for objective of doing more to conserve sites. The Tees estuary has some their continuing support for this work. the small things that run the world. similarities to other ex-industrial During the year Buglife championed Buglife’s staff and volunteers have sites, known as brownfield sites, concerns about the impacts of pesticides continued to work tirelessly for that we have worked on in previous on non-target, beneficial invertebrates, invertebrate conservation – the years. These brownfield sites can be including promoting a ban on the use expertise, enthusiasm and energy are stunning wildlife oases, and especially of neonicotinoid pesticides until their greatly appreciated. During 2010 we important for rare invertebrates. environmental safety is established. With have taken on four new staff members, support from a number of organisations two of them in completely new posts Thanks to support from Natural England we encouraged the Government to and five new office volunteers. Thanks and Defra’s Aggregates Levy Sustainability respond positively to the new Directive also to the Board of Trustees for their Fund we have successfully helped to on the Sustainable Use of Pesticides by dedication and ongoing commitment, save our native White-clawed crayfish providing better protection for people and a warm welcome to the three new from extinction by rescuing endangered and wildlife from pesticide risks. trustees who have joined us this year. populations and moving them to safe havens called ‘Ark Sites’. These are free Raising awareness and increasing from the invasive North American understanding of invertebrates is a Signal crayfish - a larger crayfish vital element of Buglife’s work and this which competes for food and spreads year we have engaged with thousands crayfish plague, which has devastating of people through events, bug walks, Alan Stubbs effects on the White-clawed crayfish. workshops and talks across the UK. Chairman

About Buglife Buglife’s aim is to halt the extinction of invertebrate species and to achieve sustainable populations of invertebrates. We are working Buglife is the only organisation in without bugs. Invertebrates underpin hard to achieve this through: Europe devoted to the conservation life on earth and without them the • Undertaking practical conservation of all invertebrates, and we are world’s ecosystems would collapse. projects that will contribute actively working to save Britain’s to achieving our aim. rarest animals, everything from bees Invertebrates are facing an extinction crisis • Promoting the environmental to , worms to woodlice and importance of invertebrates and jumping to jellyfish. There Today, thousands of invertebrate raising awareness about the are more than 40,000 invertebrate species are declining and many are challenges to their survival. heading towards extinction. Worldwide species in the UK, and many of these • Assisting in the development of are under threat as never before. 150,000 species could be gone by legislation and policy that will ensure 2050 if the world does nothing. Each the conservation of invertebrates. Invertebrates are vitally important invertebrate species plays a unique • Developing and disseminating to a healthy planet – humans and and important role in the web of knowledge about how to other life forms could not survive life, but once lost, they cannot be conserve invertebrates. without them. The food we eat, the replaced. Many invertebrates have • Encouraging and supporting fish we catch, the birds we see, the incredible life stories yet to be told, invertebrate conservation initiatives flowers we smell and the hum of and we literally don’t know what by other organisations in the life we hear, simply would not exist we are on the brink of losing. UK, Europe and worldwide.

3 Saving key bug sites

Pine hoverfly (Blera fallax)

and Strathspey Conservation Group, is part of a coalition launching legal action to challenge the protection that the National Park affords to wildlife in its local plan. Sussex emerald (Thalera fimbrialis) In Kent Buglife and Butterfly Conservation have been working Unfortunately the financial conditions and the Caledonian sac- together to oppose the creation of an have not stemmed the flow of ( subsultans). Another site in international airport on Dungeness, development proposals that threaten the vicinity - School Wood, Nethybridge a development that would threaten to destroy key bug habitats. - is also threatened with a housing incredibly sensitive shingle habitats, development. School Wood is home In 2010 Buglife has stood up for rare species such as the Medicinal endangered species at Craig Wood, to several very local invertebrates. leech (Hirudo medicinalis) and the an area of Caledonian pine forest near Buglife visited the wood and found the Sussex emerald moth (Thalera Loch Garten, that is threatened with a Lemon slug (Malacolimax tenellus) – a fimbrialis) and significant bumblebee housing development. This is the only scarce woodland . Concern has populations including the UK BAP confirmed Scottish site for the Slender grown about the wild west planning priority Brown-banded carder bee ground hopper (Tetrix subulata) and approach of the Cairngorms National (Bombus humilis). The airport plans could also be home to rare specialities Park to the extent that a Buglife were approved by the local council, such as the Pine hoverfly (Blera fallax) member organisation, the Badenoch but a public inquiry has been called.

Buglife out and about

This year Buglife attended events a bug poll, where our visitors picked across the UK to raise awareness about their favourite garden bugs, rather bugs. The first event of the year was than favourite politicians! In summer, Malvern Spring Gardening Show and as we attended Gardeners’ World Live it was General Election season we held where we promoted window boxes to benefit bugs and crafted wriggly worms from tights and shredded paper with children. In August, we went to the British Birdwatching Fair where we ran bug walks and showed visitors live bugs under the microscope. Later, in the autumn we attended a BBC Live ‘n’ Deadly event in Scotland with Buglife Making a bug hat at a Buglife event. Vice-President Steve Backshall. We also attended some smaller, locally delivered a series of exciting new bug based events during 2010, including workshops on harvestmen, beetles the Peterborough Green Festival where and deadwood bugs. These were far Buglife’s Dale Harrison (right) we showed hundreds of children more popular than we had hoped to showing a family how to bug hunt. how to hunt for bugs. In Scotland we imagine and all were full to capacity.

4 Buglife Scotland

It has been another busy year for the first time that information Green Network development fund Buglife in Scotland. Following the about what invertebrates occur in has allowed Buglife to undertake launch of the Strategy for Scottish Scotland has been put together; it ‘alert mapping’ for derelict sites Invertebrate Conservation the previous is now available on our website. in central Scotland. This work will year we have been working with help us identify the sites that are With the help of the newly appointed partners to deliver the vision for a potentially important for invertebrates Conservation Assistant we ran a very Scotland in which invertebrates are and require surveys in the future. valued and conserved for their key popular programme of activities roles in a healthy environment. involving members and the public. In March, we launched our first One of the first tasks in delivering edition of ‘Scottish Invertebrate News’ the strategy was to review the state with stories on recent invertebrate of knowledge on invertebrates discoveries and conservation work. in Scotland. This ‘stock take’ is Developing greater knowledge and understanding of invertebrates and their habitats underpins appropriate and effective conservation action. We produced a series of habitat management guides for landowners on lowland raised bogs, blanket bogs, cereal field margins and coastal vegetated shingle.

With the help of Suzie Bairner a newly appointed BTCV Natural Talent Apprentice, we have been able to begin site assessments and invertebrate surveys on a number of ex-industrial sites in the Falkirk area. These commonly overlooked brownfield sites can be important Great yellow bumblebee habitats for invertebrates. Further Narrow-headed ant (Formica exsecta) (Bombus distinguendus) support from the Central Scotland

Bugs workshops in Scotland

In 2010 we ran a series of new the misconception that there is a lack workshops in Scotland to help of interest in invertebrates in Scotland. people learn more about some of the less commonly records groups of invertebrates such as harvestmen and beetles. We also ran a deadwood habitat management workshop where delegates were able to get their hands dirty grubbing around in some deadwood to learn about flies, beetles, springtails, centipedes and milipedes.

All workshops were fully booked and extremely popular. Attendees ranged from interested members of the public, to volunteers, and to ecological Springtail (Bourletiella viridescens) - professionals. The phenomenal similar to those found on deadwood Bug workshop at Westfield Farm response to the workshops challenges workshop.

5 Designer homes for little money spider

the continued existence of the types of trees in Epping Forrest in the Midas tree-weaver (Midia midas), hope that these rare spiders would a tiny money spider, in Epping consider them a suitable home and Forest, Essex. The spider had not take up residence. been seen for eight years. In summer 2010 Buglife staff, This rare and elusive spider lives in bird volunteers and spider experts looked nests making it exceptionally difficult through the artificial nests. After hours to find, but a member of the British of sifting through twigs, leaves and Arachnological Society invented a chicken manure, a female Midas tree- novel, low-tech solution. By creating weaver was found. It’s great to have Searching through an artificial bird’s mock nests using a cluster of twigs, refound it, but we have not thrown as nest to find a money spider. leaf litter and organic chicken manure much light on its ecology as we would in a net bag, an artificial habitat was have done if we had found more! Thanks to support from The Whitley created for the spiders. The fake nests Wildlife Conservation Trust, Buglife were placed in dozens of different and a team of experts have confirmed

Saving threatened crayfish from extinction

In November 2010 Buglife, in Our native White-clawed crayfish is at nature reserve, near Tewkesbury. partnership with the Kemerton great risk of extinction. The invasive The Ark site is a lake in a former sand Conservation Trust, the Avon North American Signal crayfish has and gravel pit, which is ideal for the Wildlife Trust and the Environment been rapidly spreading through the White-clawed crayfish, but initially Agency, helped to save White- country. It competes with the White- didn’t offer many places for the clawed crayfish (Austropotamobius clawed crayfish for food and living crayfish to hide away. Fortunately, pallipes) from extinction by rescuing space and also carries the deadly the previous owner, Huntsmans endangered populations and crayfish plague, which is passed to Quarries generously donated over 80 moving them to safe havens that our native crayfish. In November we tonnes of stone for the construction are free of the plague carrying moved the first White-clawed crayfish of crayfish habitat in the lake. invasive North American Signal from a stream in north Worcestershire crayfish (Pacifastacus leniusculus). to a safe haven “Ark Site” at Kemerton

White-clawed crayfish ready to be moved to a safe haven.

White-clawed crayfish Creating homes for White-clawed crayfish (Austropotamobius pallipes)

6 Chestnut click- hunt

In May 2010 Buglife organised a hunt The last time a Chestnut click-beetle for the Chestnut click-beetle (Anostirus was seen at Birk Crag was in 2003. castaneus) at Birk Crag, near Harrogate. This is one of only two sites where the In 2010 we were joined by 17 beetle is found in Britain, the other volunteers and a member of Harrogate being soft cliffs on the Isle of Wight. Borough Council who helped us look for the beetle. Unfortunately, the The beetle itself is quite distinctive, weather was poor and we failed to but the adults are only active for find this rare and elusive beetle. Let’s a few weeks in late April through hope the next hunt is more successful. to early May, and tend only to be The rare and elusive Chestnut click- seen on hotter, sunny days. beetle (Anostirus castaneus).

Farming for bugs advice sheets

With support from Defra and a (Bombus ruderatus) and the range of experts and specialist robberfly (Asilus crabroniformis), a organisations, Buglife has produced scarce but fearsomely predatory fly. a series of management advice sheets to encourage landowners to Each sheet contains information on improve farmland habitats for rare the ecology of the species, where and threatened invertebrates. it occurs in Britain, the reasons for its decline, and its specific habitat These management sheets cover requirements. These sheets are nine invertebrate species that are designed to help farmers and other listed on the UK’s Biodiversity Action landowners select the management Hornet robberfly (Asilus crabroniformis) Plan and are also found on farmland. choices that will benefit invertebrates - one of the species that will benefit These include such as the as well as assisting farm advisors from our farming advice sheets. declining Large garden bumblebee such as Natural England.

Bugs and brownfields in Northern England

sites. The Tees estuary has some developers and ecologists to promote similarities to other ex-industrial sites best practice when brownfield that we have worked on in previous sites are developed or being years. Some of these brownfield sites considered for development. can be home to a stunning display of wildlife, including rare invertebrates.

With support from Clare Dinham, our newly appointed Brownfield Stepping Stones Officer, we are working in partnership with the Industry Nature Dingy skipper butterfly (Erynnis Conservation Association (INCA) and tages) - found on the Teesside Tees Valley Wildlife Trust to discover brownfield site. the animals living on these sites, and we are creating new habitats and With support from SITA Enriching managing sites to benefit invertebrates. Nature we started work on a three year The Teesside brownfield site before project in Teesside, focussed around the We have been planning workshops Buglife starts work to create more old colliery workings and petrochemical to be held next year for planners, habitats for bugs.

7 Getting people involved!

Stick hunt In September Buglife held a public survey for stick insects in Cornwall, in partnership with the National Stick Insect Recording Scheme. Many people do not realise that we have stick insects living in the wild in the West Country – they are not native to the UK but are able to survive in South West England thanks to mild winters.

We received records from gardens, parks and wild places right across the county. New stick insect colonies were found in Padstow and Shortlandsend, near Truro. But perhaps the most exciting find was the largest population of stick insects in the UK – over 140 individual stick insects were counted Unarmed stick-insect (Acanthoxyla inermis) found in the Buglife stick insect hunt. in one garden in mid-Cornwall. Wonderful wasps In August Buglife asked people to take a new look at wasps and to sign up to the stop swatting wasps pledge. Throughout the campaign we publicised the beauty and variety of wasps in the UK. We created a series of educational web pages to demonstrate the importance of wasps as natures great recyclers, pollinators and pest control agents. The campaign hoped to encourage the public to learn to appreciate wasps, and to stop swatting them! Buglife Vice-president Nick Baker led the campaign which was covered in national newspapers and on the radio.

A potter ( parietum)

British Wildlife Photography Awards This year Buglife sponsored the ‘Hidden Britain’ category of the British Wildlife Photography Awards. The British Wildlife Photography Awards were created in 2009 to celebrate the talents of both amateur and professional photographers, while simultaneously highlighting the great wealth and diversity of british natural history. The competition winners were announced in autumn 2010 and we were pleased to see a stunning photograph of a Blue leaf-beetle taken by 14 year old Adam Hawtin win the Young British Wildlife Photography Award.

Blue leaf-beetle - winner of Young British Wildlife Photography Awards.

8 Protecting innocent bugs from pesticides

In 2010 Buglife brought together the issued in December 2010, we are Following our 2009 report on the Biodiversity and Pesticides Group, continuing to work with other impacts of neonicotinoid pesticides a partnership of non-governmental environmental organisations to on wildlife further research has conservation organisations to discuss campaign for stronger measures only served to heighten concerns and take action on the impacts of within the UK implementation of and we have continued to lead pesticides on wildlife. Buglife also the European Directive and to help a campaign to get these toxic sits on the National Pesticides Forum ensure that pesticides cause as little chemicals banned in the UK. where both Government bodies damage as possible to both bugs, and non-governmental bodies and the wide range of other animals meet to discuss pesticide use. that depend upon them for food.

In February 2010 the Biodiversity and Pesticides Group responded to the UK consultation on the implementation of a new European Directive on the Sustainable Use of Pesticides. We raised concerns about the impacts of pesticides on ‘non-target’ invertebrates and highlighted the need to reduce the use of a number of high risk chemicals that are most likely to damage wildlife - particularly vulnerable insects, such as bumblebees and solitary bees. We recommended that there should be better processes for deciding on the use of pesticides in conservation areas and the wider countryside, and that there should be advice available for consumers on alternatives to pesticides.

Although Buglife was disappointed with the Government response Leaf-cutter bee

Found – the spider that was feared extinct

A small spider that hunts amongst Society between 2002 and 2006 we We still need to understand more the sedges and reeds of old were unable to locate a population about the ecology of this enigmatic fens was feared to have become of the spider. With the last sighting animal, but it is now firmly in extinct, but in 2010 a single female in 2000 fears were growing that the the public consciousness. was found at Chippenham Fen, spider had died out in the UK. Cambridgeshire raising hopes that the species will continue to survive. Then in September 2010 came the marvellous news that Rosser’s sac The Rosser’s (Clubiona spider had been rediscovered at rosserae) was one of the first Chippenham Fen by a member of endangered species that Buglife the British Arachnological Society. worked on. In 2002 Buglife put A further search in mid-October together a project with Anglian revealed a colony of ten individuals Water and the British Arachnological and Peter Harvey took the first ever Society to find the little spider and photographs of Rosser’s sac spider. understand better how to conserve it. Buglife put out a press release Rosser’s sac spider is an internationally about the rediscovery and first ever very rare wetland species that has only photos and the story was massive. ever been found at two sites in the It became the number one news UK. Despite intensive searching by story on the BBC website and was The world exclusive photograph of a Buglife and the British Arachnological covered around the world. Rosser’s sac spider (Clubiona rosserae).

9 Wildlife destroying sheep dip finally withdrawn

In March 2010 the Government and million litres of waste Cypermethrin dipped a sheep that strayed into a manufacturers of Cypermethrin was sprayed onto meadows and stream would still cause a pollution sheep dip announced its permanent fields every year, causing untold event, to make the ban permanent. withdrawal. It had been a four year destruction to butterflies and bees. battle for Buglife to secure this ban on the sheep dip that is so harmful Buglife campaigned with fishing to bugs and the environment. charities to ban the chemical, and in light of growing scientific evidence, Synthetic pyrethroids (Cypermethrin) the Veterinary Medicines Directorate are 1000 times more toxic to (VMD) suspended the license to wildlife than the pesticides that sell synthetic pyrethroid for sheep farmers were previously using to dipping on environmental grounds dip sheep. At its peak use it was in 2006. It has taken a further four estimated to be killing about 1.5 years and more scientific work by the billion animals in rivers, streams and Environment Agency, that showed ponds every year. In addition 400 that even two weeks after being Sheep on grazing marsh at Kent.

Some progress for the Little whirlpool ram’s-horn snail

The Government had an international England consulted on creating three protected areas to make them safe legal duty to put forward protected Special Areas of Conservation for the refuges for the snail. We are pushing sites for the highly endangered Little snail - Pevensey Levels, Pulbrough and for their protection before their whirlpool ram’s-horn snail (Anisus Amberley Wild Brooks, and the Broads. delicate occupants are extinguished by vorticulus) before 2007. Buglife has modern ditch clearance methods. been pushing for the legislation to be Buglife and the Conchological Society implemented, but there was concern identified several adjacent areas of that sites would not be put forward unprotected grazing marsh that we until 2012. Fortunately in 2010 Natural believe must be added to the proposed

Buglife is fighting to conserve habitat Amberly Wild Brooks - a Special Area of Conservation for the Little whirlpool for the Little whirlpool ram’s-horn ram’s horn snail. snail (Anisus vorticulus).

10 Our finances

Income Amount %

Restricted grants £463,334 68

Donations and legacies £48,394 7

Unrestricted grants £15,450 2

Bank interest £5,536 1

Contracts and contributions £147,410 22

Total £680,124 100

Expenditure Amount %

Charitable activities £573,909 94

Fundraising £30,420 5

Governance costs £3,883 1

Total £608,212 100

President: Vice-president: Germaine Greer Nick Baker

Alan Stubbs Matt Shardlow Vice-president: Vice-president: Chairman Chief Executive Steve Backshall Edward O Wilson

Photography credits (from top left, clockwise)

Front cover Page 5 Page 7 Page 9 • Four-spotted chaser (Libellula • Narrow-headed ant (Formica • Chestnut click-beetle (Anostirus • Leaf-cutter bee © Steve Peters quadrimaculata) © Mark Hamblin exsecta) © Gus Jones Badenoch castaneus) © Ian Middlebrook • Rosser’s sac spider (Clubiona 2020VISION and Strathspey Conservation • Brownfield site in Teesside rosserae) © P R Harvey Group © Industry and Nature Page 2 Page 10 • Great yellow bumblebee Conservation Association • Spider in silhouette • Sheep on grazing marsh at (Bombus distinguendus) • Dingy skipper (Erynnis tages) © www.rosshoddinott.co.uk Ridham © Roger Key © Martin Scott © R Woods • Sir David Attenborough • Little whirlpool ram’s-horn snail • Springtail (Bourletiella • Hornet robberfly (Asilus © Richard Boll Photography (Anisus vorticulus) © Paul Sterry viridescens) © Tim Ransom crabroniformis) © Claudia Watts (NPG Commission) – Nature Photographers • Bug workshop at Westfield Farm • Silver-studded blue (Plebejus Page 8 • Amberly ditch © Martin Willing © Nick Owens argus), Cornwall • Unarmed stick-insect Back cover (top to bottom) © www.rosshoddinott.co.uk Page 6 (Acanthoxyla inermis) • Green tiger beetle (Cicindela • Some of the team looking for © Malcolm Lee Page 4 campestris) adult resting on Midas tree-weaver (Midia midas) • Blue leaf-beetle - winner • Sussex emerald (Thalera bark of pine. Scotland © Mick Massie of Young British Wildlife fimbrialis) © Donald Hobern © Mark Hamblin • White-clawed crayfish Photography Award 2010 • Pine hoverfly (Blera fallax) • Mottled umber (Erannis translocation © Kate O’Neill © Adam Hawtin (aged 14) © Bastiaan Wakkie defoliaria) © Nigel Jones • White-clawed crayfish • A potter wasp (Ancistrocerus • Buglife at Charmouth Fossil • Rosy woodlouse (Androniscus (Austropotamobius pallipes) parietum) © Nigel Jones Festival © Maisie Hill dentiger) © Roger Key © John Mason • Buglife at Peterborough Green • Creating homes for White- Festival © ESP clawed crayfish © Kate O’Neill

11 Front Cover Four-spotted chaser dragonfly (Libellula quadrimaculata)

Back Cover (top to bottom) Green tiger beetle (Cicindela campestris) Mottled umber (Erannis defoliaria) Rosy woodlouse (Androniscus dentiger)

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