Meeth Quarry
150 hectares of rolling landscape, deep water filled lakes and beautiful views
IMPORTANT NOTICE
Access to this Devon Wildlife Trust managed nature reserve/site
Please note…
150 hectares of rolling landscape, deep water filled lakes and beautiful views
IMPORTANT NOTICE
Access to this Devon Wildlife Trust managed nature reserve/site
Please note…
A disused limestone quarry, now home to various plants, birds and bats. Access to the nature reserve is limited to a footpath which passes through. Deep water filled former quarry workings and…
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With yellow-and-black bands, the giant horntail looks like a large wasp, but is harmless to us. The female uses her long, stinger-like ovipositor to lay eggs in pine trees, where the larvae then…
Badger. Strong defiant, paternal, the only animal that the weasels and stoats won’t dare to cross. It is badger who the other animals turn to when things go wrong, the reluctant leader who steps…
The Wildlife Trusts’ youth activism manager, Arran Wilson, draws on his background as a lecturer in zoology to explore what exactly hibernation is, and which animals rely on it to get through…