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Nature thread

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I though it might be nice to have a thread that we can take into the summer and beyond, as the Spring thread will soon be redundant.

Please remember not to upload an image in the same post as words or it might break the thread - please add your words by replying to the image.

Thank you.

Yesterday  sent me down a rabbit hole when she mentioned this book on the 3 Good Things thread:

https://lithub.com/a-book-to-conjure-nature-when-we-need-it-most/

I then looked at this book:

www.thelostwords.org/.../

The reason for the book made me sad:

“When the most recent edition of the Oxford Junior Dictionary — widely used in schools around the world — was published, a sharp-eyed reader soon noticed that around forty common words concerning nature had been dropped. The words were no longer being used enough by children to merit their place in the dictionary. The list of these ‘lost words’ included acorn, adder, bluebell, dandelion, fern, heron, kingfisher, newt, otter, and willow. Among the words taking their place were attachment, blog, broadband, bullet-point, cut-and-paste, and voice-mail…."

Please add anything related to nature that interests you.

Thank you.

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  • Theme for today appears to be red(ish).

    Spiked shieldbug (corrected from red-legged)

    Small copper

    Common Darter 

    Grey dagger caterpillar (had to use an app for identifying this one, and they do have that weird hump!)

  • in reply to Cinnabar_wing

    That was telepathy.

    I was just wondering when we would get some more moth pictures from you!

    I realise they aren't actually moths, so perhaps our telepathy wasn't perfect.

    We had a caterpillar of a brown tailed moth strolling across the path yesterday.

    Thank you, as always, for sharing.

  • in reply to B

    I did put it out on Saturday night, it was a smaller haul and I wasn't sure if people were tiring of my moths. I got some lovely new species I hadn't seen before, such as a rosy rustic, two autumnal rustics and two hedge rustics which aren't so widespread in the area according to the map! I could show them too if it's not disagreeable.

  • in reply to B

    Far from an expert, more a keen amateur! I get a kick from finding them in the book and reading up about them, then I have an app that I check if it agrees with me, another buzz if I've got it right! And the ones I haven't, it helps with learning. (Like the hedge rustics were harder to find).

    And no one needs me to do anything at that time on a weekend morning, so I feel less guilty having some time to myself!

  • in reply to Marianne72

    It's good fun, I'm only putting it out once a week if the weather is okay, and then only if I have time to go through it in the morning. (You don't want to catch the same moths by putting it out consecutive nights).

    I have pots, but I'm tending to just take a picture and release them.

    You need to get up early (they say sunrise, but I'm only out there 6-7ish) then I come in, get some toast and tea, then sit looking through my book, identifying them and logging them in my notebook. 

  • in reply to Cinnabar_wing

    It's fascinating and amazed how many different ones you get.

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