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View Article  Suffolk Flora ready for the AGM
Martin Sanford has now confirmed that copies of the new 'Flora of Suffolk' will be ready for sale on the ...   more »
View Article  81st AGM of the SNS
The SNS AGM is on Weds April 21st in the Wolsey Room of the Holiday Inn, Copdock, Ipswich followed by the launch of the new FLORA OF SUFFOLK .... read on for more details ...   more »
View Article  Autumn Members Evening
The SNS Autumn Members Evening

Thursday November 19th at the Holiday Inn, Ipswich
7 pm for a 7:30 start


Come ...   more »
View Article  SNS 5th Drawing and Photography Competition 2010
For the 5th year running the Suffolk Naturalists' Society is running a competition for all ages to draw and photograph insects and other invertebrates ......   more »
View Article  A Flora of Suffolk ~ pre publication offer
A new county flora for Suffolk by Martin Sanford and Richard Fisk is set for publication in March 2010   more »
View Article  Geo Suffolk - New Newsletter available
Download the second edition of GeoSuffolk Times ... Places to go this Autumn & future events   more »
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View Article  New bumblebee heading your way
A couple of times recently I have seen the bumblebee Bombus hypnorum in my garden in Capel St Mary. There ...   more »
View Article  A few thoughts for Butterfly Recorders,
July is the best time for butterfly numbers and diversity, which makes it a good time to find those special species ..   more »
View Article  SNS Weather update
Although the SNS Weather Records have been a little slow to be updated in the last couple of months due ...   more »
View Article  Plague
Has anyone else been plagued by greenfly or other aphids this afternoon? There have been clouds of them in my ...   more »
View Article  New Geology Newsletter
GeoSuffolk, the county organisation concerned with increasing knowledge about the Geological Diversity of Suffolk has published a new leaflet entitled ...   more »
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View Article  An Amazing Stag Beetle - 36 hours dead but still moving!
I ran my usual May course this week at Flatford Field Studies Centre on identification of freshwater invertebrates but the most unusual find was a stag beetle ....   more »
View Article  Painted Lady migration
Reading on the Norfolk Wildlife Forum there has been a fantastic influx of Painted Ladies from Northern Europe recently. The ...   more »
View Article  Weather data for January to March is now available .....
Weather data for January to March 2009 is now available for download in the same format as was used for ...   more »
View Article  July Field Trip to Wheatfen Reserve
On Sunday, 5th July at 11.00 a.m there is a joint field meeting with the Norfolk & Norwich Naturalists' Society
at the ...   more »
View Article  The Suffolk Weather Data page. New Year update.
The complete yearly weather data spreadsheet for Boxford, Suffolk is now available.   more »
View Article  Wasp spider

I have found Wasp Spiders (Argiope bruennichi) in Wenhaston for three years now, and this year they are particularly numerous ...   more »

View Article  SNS Geology Group field trips 2008 CANCELLED

Following a letter I have received today from the SNS Chairman, it is no longer possible to run the SNS Geology Group ...   more »

View Article  SNS Geological Group Waveney Valley Field Trip April 26th

Led by Tim Holt-Wilson, the first of this year’s Suffolk Naturalists’ Society Geological Group field trips is on Saturday April 26...   more »

View Article  A winter hedgerow?
Yesterday was one of those great winter days, cold enough to be crisp and sunny enough to almost warrent sunglasses. It was interesting to see the remains ....   more »
View Article  Wild Arums shooting already?
Wild Arums shooting already?

Is it me or do things really start earlier each year? A quick look in my ...   more »
View Article  Nominations requested for SNS Council by January 31st
Two council members retire at the AGM   more »
View Article  Building Stones God's Square Bury St Edmunds

The building stones page of www.geosuffolk.co.uk has an updated version of Bob Markham's map of 'God's Square' Bury St Edmunds - ...   more »

View Article  Building Stones God's Square Bury St Edmunds
The SNS Geological Group walk on Saturday 14th July will be looking at the limestones and other rocks in the Cathedral ...   more »
View Article  Whirligigs attacked by Water Crickets in Boxford
Part one of a Nature Notebook about Hol Brook Stream   more »
View Article  Fungus i.d.
I'm looking for some help in identifying some photos (not the best format for i.d.) of fungi. Any suggestions would ...   more »
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View Article  Ash trees on the decline?
Ash trees around Boxford are still not in leaf, many buds and twigs appear dead because ..   more »
View Article  SNS Members Surveys
Why not join in with one of the SNS Members Surveys? Read on for more information ....   more »
View Article  SNS Geological Group Meetings
read this post to see the Geological Group meetings for 2007 ......   more »
View Article  UK-wide White-letter Hairstreak Project
A Butterfly Conservation project to search for elm and White-letter Hairstreaks nationwide. Why not join in?   more »
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