28 August 2015, Wildlife around Bath

28 August 2015, Wildlife around Bath

Entomophthora muscae (232/365) Family: Entomophthoraceae A hoverfly has become a food source for a fungus. Upon infection, the fungus causes behavioural changes in the host, leading to ascent of a blade of grass before death. This allows the spores to be broadcast...

Moths around Bath, 20 August 2015

. The mocha (Cyclophora annularia) Family: Geometridae An attractive moth that feeds on field maple (Acer campestre). This was one of at least three individuals taken at a light trap left overnight in Prior Park Landscape Gardens by the Bath Natural History Society. ....
Prior Park Landscape Garden, 19 August 2015

Prior Park Landscape Garden, 19 August 2015

Twelve members made an early start in the delightful surroundings of Prior Park Gardens adjacent to the lower lake to examine, identify and study the contents of a moth trap left overnight close to the lake and surrounding trees. Before looking at the moth trap we...
Priddy Mineries/Stockhill, 8 August 2015

Priddy Mineries/Stockhill, 8 August 2015

Leaders: Alan Barrett and Geoff Hiscocks This was a joint meeting between Bath Nats and the Somerset and Bristol Branch of Butterfly Conservation. On a glorious sunny day, 22 of us (about equal numbers from each group) met in Stockhill car park opposite Priddy...