Feb’s Tree of the Month: this wonderful blossoming #Prunus / #cherry looking species in Manor Gardens, but what is it please? Cherry-plum, blackthorn, bullace, damson, another species? It's been flowering all Feb. Answers in the comments please! Best viewed from Beacon Hill

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🔦🐛 Join me on 10th April at 7pm for a FREE online talk about using Ultraviolet light to survey some of our most elusive butterflies 🐛🔦 - BOOK HERE --> shorturl.at/hptS0 Butterfly Conservation 🦋 Devon Wildlife Trust

How about this! A teeny-tiny, second instar White-letter Hairstreak caterpillar. Bravely venturing out to find another Elm bud to devour, having a much needed rest on the way. One of three found this afternoon in Exmouth BC Devon Branch Butterfly Conservation 🦋

Hawthorn Shieldbug (Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale) sunbathing on "the oak" trunk. Amazing patterns 💚🌳🐞 A new species for this tree ✅

Big red mites on veteran apple. Peacock butterfly on blackthorn. Pollinator on plum blossom. Sunday 24th March 2024. ✅✅✅ Google Lens says Trombidium holosericeum for the mite. About 4mm long body. Never seem them before.

Have you ever seen 'glow-in-the-dark' caterpillars? Join us for a #SaveDevonsTrees online event with @Maxando from Butterfly Conservation 🦋, who will shed some (UV) light on the subject of fluorescing caterpillars! Event on Wednesday 10 April, 7pm. Book here 👉 buff.ly/3x952Dw

Any Larch trees in Exmouth? Wonderful pink flowering female cones, next to an old cone from a previous season (on a tree at Exeter Hospital).

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Swallow Shelly Beach Exmouth. Look at the iridescence blue! RSPB Exe Estuary & Darts Farm RSPB Bird Watching BBC Wildlife South East Devon Wildlife Exmouth Wildlife Group The British Nature Guide #swallow #exmouth #devon #birdphotography #BirdsSeenIn2024

Last night I found a whopping 19 White-letter Hairstreak caterpillars across 4 brand new locations in Exmouth! Butterfly Conservation 🦋 BC Devon Branch Exmouth Wildlife Group

Tree of the Month, April '24, a big elm on Dinan Way - European White (Ulmus laevis) or American Elm? This tree was spotted 4 winters ago, but wrongly ID'ed as hornbeam. Local butterfly expert Max Anderson has been searching for elms and thought this was one - it is! More info on FB

Reminder! Yes, it's Green Drinks this evening. From 7:30 at Sundowners Cafe 💚🍹🍻🍷🍵

Exmouth Tiny Forest group are asking for help tomorrow (SATURDAY 29th JUNE) watering their 600 little trees on King George's Field (Carter Avenue). 📷📷📷 First session at 9am, another at 2pm. Please bring a watering can if you have one :-)

From 30th May this new build has produced a family ready to fledge w/b 21st July. It has been very interesting to watch. Good luck on your long journey South !@WildExmouth Devon Wildlife Trust Exmouth Journal

Are you interested in taking part in an Assembly of River Beings on Sept 21/22 exploring multi-species perspectives & river rights for the Exe in Sept? Let us know (drawing: S.Castle)

Exmouth Green Drinks is Tuesday 6th August. There's no "29 Minutes" session confirmed yet - do you have something environmental to talk / discuss for about for 10-15 minutes? More info here: greendrinks.org/Devon/Exmouth

Ring-necked Parakeets now in Phear Park

1/2 Help! Anybody out there with the wherewithal to try and save some mature trees of high ecological value by looking into these types of insurance claims? Do you know about soil volume shrink/heave, root crack / level monitoring etc? Current example: planning.eastdevon.gov.uk/online-applica…