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Chrysis ignita - Ruby-tailed Wasp
  It's bright metallic blue and red colouration, makes The Ruby-tailed Wasp relatively easy to identify and is the most well known of the 31 UK species. Ruby-tailed Wasps are occasionally referred to as Cuckoo Bees. Females enter the nests of other solitary bees to lay their eggs. The larvae feed on the host bee's brood until maturity. This colourful insect is regularly found on or around fence posts.  
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Sherwood Forest - a brief invertebrate history
Sherwood Forest is well known across the world as the traditional home of the legend that is Robin Hood. Many thousands of tourists visit the site throughout the year to see the magnificent Major Oak. But whilst tourism puts money into the local economy, it also assists in creating additional pressures on the forest's already fragile ecology.
 
Mystery Gull
This pale 1st Winter gull was at Dorket Head, Nottingham on 23/01/10. It's identity caused some discussion and still remains unclear.

Orb weaving spiders
The identification of Araneus diadematus, marmoreus and quadratus - three large orb-weaving spiders, which are common at Sherwood.

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  Eakring Bird news Lapland Bunting north-east over Eakring Flash (January 20th) 179 Sky Lark through on 17th, Peregrine on 3rd and 17th, Short-eared Owl on 2nd, Pink-footed Geese on 1st, 3rd, 7th and 19th.
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  Migration summary 2009 2009 marked the 12th year of recording migration through the Eakring area. Overall, it was once again the usual mix of several rarities and mixed fortunes for several migrants.
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  January 2010 bird review Severely cold weather, with standing snow and ice for the first two weeks of the year, helped to ensure an excellent start to the new year with Short-eared Owl and Lapland Bunting.
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  Insect news 2010 Two new Rove Beetles for Sherwood from 2009 finally identified and the first Coleoptera of the year with records of Carabus problematicus and Striped Ladybird from Budby South Forest.
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  Systematic bird list 2009 A year list ending on 124 species, meant that 2009 was never going to be the best of years, but was by no means without it's highlights and the typical range of semi-rarities that often occur.
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  Species' migration Index page which provides links to individual species migration pages, showing the monthly and annual counts of 55 regular migrant species from 1998. Includes all 2009 migration data.
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Ladybirds
One of our most popular pages, featuring most of the Nottinghamshire species and

including photographs to aid with identification and also including links to pages showing species' variants and early life-cycle stages - especially those of larvae and pupae.

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Labulla thoracica
Mapperley, Nottingham. ........Feb 2010
Robertus lividus
Sherwood Forest CP. ..........Sep 2009
Gauropterus fulgidus
Budby South Forest. .............Aug 2009
Ocypus aeneocephalus
Budby South Forest. .............Oct 2009
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Philonthus laminatus
Clipstone Old Quarter............Apr 2009
Ectoedemia rubivora
Red Hill, near Eakring ............Jan 2010
Carabus problematicus
Budby South Forest. .............Jan 2010
Short-eared Owl
Eakring Flash ........................Jan 2010
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  Maintained by Trevor and Dilys Pendleton, eakringbirds.com is an increasingly comprehensive natural history web resource for Eakring and the Sherwood Forest area of Nottinghamshire. The main objective of this website, is to monitor the birds found around the villages of Eakring and Kersall, recording migrants, breeding numbers and looking for the occasional rarity etc. However, an ever increasing amount of webspace has also been given over to recording the invertebrate fauna of Eakring and Sherwood Forest NNR. This may not be to everyone's interest, but part of our aim is to help stimulate a greater interest and awareness within all aspects of Nottinghamshire natural history. This website has 2 134 pages, containing over 3 600 images which feature many Nottinghamshire invertebrates for the first time.
     
   
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