Mini-beasts receive major boost
Millions of mini-beasts in South Devon are set to benefit from improvements to their nature reserve homes after Devon Wildlife Trust secured a £41,000 grant from Biffa Award; a multi-million pound…
Millions of mini-beasts in South Devon are set to benefit from improvements to their nature reserve homes after Devon Wildlife Trust secured a £41,000 grant from Biffa Award; a multi-million pound…
The charity Devon Wildlife Trust has just completed a winter’s worth of work across its south Devon nature reserves. The aim of its ‘Helping Habitats’ project has been to improve the homes and…
Devon Wildlife Trust urges South West MPs to back ambitious nature recovery targets
Famed for its tapping in the middle of the night, supposedly heralding tragedy, the Deathwatch beetle is a serious wood-boring pest. In houses, their tunnelling can cause major damage.
Our largest and most common bee-fly, the dark-edged bee-fly looks just like a bumblebee, and buzzes like one too! It feeds on flowers like primroses and violets in gardens, parks and woodlands.…
The 'drumming' of a great spotted woodpecker is a familiar sound of our woodlands, parks and gardens. It is a form of communication and is mostly used to mark territories and to display…
A familiar garden bird, the great tit can be seen around bird tables and feeders, as well as in woodlands and parks. Listen out for its shrill song that sounds just like a bicycle pump being used…
Pushing its way up through the cracks in pavements, the straw-coloured flower spikes of greater plantain or 'broadleaf plantain' are a familiar sight. This 'weed' also pops up…
● Government levelling up plans will fail unless they include levelling up access to nature, warn 60+ organisations in a major new cross-sector campaign
● New research finds 85% of people…
So the third election in five years is over. Here in Devon not a great deal has changed, but nationally it’s a new political landscape. The Conservatives have a clear majority and Brexit by the…