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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 »
View Article  The bees are stirring
Now that the spring sunshine is warming things up, solitary and social bees are starting to be active.  If you ...   more »
View Article  Signs of spring

Over the last two weeks, a dunnock has been repeatedly attacking his reflection in a small window pane of our summer ...   more »

View Article  Mycological News
Don't miss next showing of BBC A Year at Kew Feb 23 friday 8pm  It's your chance to see Brian ...   more »
View Article  SUFFOLK FUNGUS GROUP
At long, long last, the SUFFOLK FUNGUS GROUP has been formed!! On a very cold February night, five of us ...   more »
View Article  The Pepperpot Fungus
On "A Year at Kew" last night the Pepperpot Fungus was shown and it was the one Mr Mahler wrote about in WA ..   more »
View Article  Red Admirals in Winter
Latest Red Admiral 31 Dec 2006. First 1 Jan 2007. What a year!   more »
View Article  Tentative signs of Spring
Today there was a little bit of Spring in the air. The Carrion Crows and Jackdaws were looking for suitable nest sites and it was rather comical watching them perch on chimney tops and peer down them as if they were prospective tenants.

I have also notice Wood pigeons pairing up and again looking for suitable sites although they do nest all year.
View Article  The Holly & the Ivy part 1
Some Christmas trivia, fact and superstition, about the Holly tree.   more »
View Article  The Apple of Peru in our Hollesley Garden
The Apple of Peru, an antlion and much more wildlife arrives in our brand new Hollesley garden.   more »
View Article  Harlequin - real or imaginary?
Last year, 2005, I was led to believe that the Harlequin ladybirds, Harmonia axyridis, would be busy exterminating our native species of ladybirds.   more »
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