Devon Hedge Award- Open for Entries devonhedges.org/devon-hedge-aw… The hedge cutting season will soon be in full swing and the Devon Hedge Award is now open for applications from farmers and others who carry out “healthy hedge trimming”.

🗣️Lunchtime Talk: Capturing Ash with Robert Darch. Join us at Exeter Library for a free talk with artist-photographer Robert Darch & Devon Wildlife Trust’s Sarah Augbaya! 🌳Explore the impact of ash dieback on Devon's landscapes. 🎟️Free - Booking Essential eventbrite.co.uk/e/lunchtime-ta…

📸🐦If you want to start or end your day with nature, why not check out our bird cam? This clever piece of kit beams live footage as birds visit, feed and sometimes squabble for position at two birdfeeders. Sit back and relax 👉youtube.com/live/7w40FtLA4…

Fan worms live in long tubes that protect their soft bodies. They project spirals of fan-like tentacles into the water, eating the small morsels that drift into their fans. Join a snorkel or rockpool safari at @wemburymarine 👉 buff.ly/47fbTti 📷 Jake Taylor-Bruce

Join DWT's #SaveDevonsTrees team for a beginners lichen identification workshop. 📅 Thursday 19 September ⌚ 10:00-12:30 📌 Phear Park, Exmouth Find out more and get your FREE ticket here 👉 buff.ly/4e29RPl #ConnectToNature #ThanksToYou @heritagefunduk One Tree Planted

Have you met this stunning spider? The four-spot orb weaver spider lives in grassland, heather and gorse, where the vegetation is long enough to string up a large orb web. It is also Devon's heaviest spider! 📷 Jake May, Volehouse Moor reserve #spiders #grassland #NorthDevon

DWT's #UpstreamThinking team have been busy growing a variety of native plug plants from seed collected across Devon. This includes wetland plants like yellow iris, birds-foot trefoil, devil's bit scabious, corky-fruited water dropwort and ragged robin. [1/2] South West Water

Native insects are frequently mistaken for the invasive, non-native Asian hornet. Find out more about identifying Asian hornets and their lookalikes here 👉 buff.ly/3XvsKVc Report confirmed sightings via the Asian Hornet Watch app or online. #AsianHornetWeek

Gates galore! #Exeter's Ludwell Valley Park has received 5 new kiss-gates, to replace smaller ones, kindly funded by The Clare Milne Trust. Each entrance also now has a 4ft side gate which will be open when there aren't cattle grazing, helping improve access for groups & wheels.

Join Devon Wildlife Trust Trust and the National Trust for this year's Great British Beach Clean at Wembury. 🦯🗑️♻️ plymouth.ac.uk/whats-on/great…

Things you didn't expect to find during a nest box survey... 🦇 Brown long-eared bat in dormouse box 🐭 Dormouse in bird box 🔍 Pygmy shrew in dormouse box 🐛 Centipedes & millipedes in bird box We've also seen wood mice, ground beetles and toads! 📷 Andrew and Lineke from DWT

Meet Disco Doris! Well, it's actual Latin name is Discodoris rosi. This vibrant sea slug is one of the many fantastic molluscs in Devon's waters. Instead of using a shell to protect themselves, they incorporate the stinging cells from prey into their bodies! 📷 Eleanor Goodall