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The West Midland Bird Club is the UK's largest regional ornithological society. It has been serving birdwatchers and ornithologists in the four English counties of Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire and (since its separation from the aforesaid counties in 1974) the Metropolitan West Midlands, with lectures, field trips, research, a bulletin and an annual report, since 1929.
This is a list of butterflies of Great Britain, including extinct, naturalised species and those of dubious origin.The list comprises butterfly species listed in The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland by Emmet et al. [1] and Britain's Butterflies by Tomlinson and Still.
The Pterophoridae or plume moths are a family of Lepidoptera with unusually modified wings, giving them the shape of a narrow winged airplane. Though they belong to the Apoditrysia like the larger moths and the butterflies , unlike these they are tiny and were formerly included among the assemblage called " microlepidoptera ".
Each volume has text, distribution maps, and illustrations of the moths it covers. When the series is complete, this will be the first time that all species of Lepidoptera recorded in Britain have been illustrated in a single reference work. Volume 7 part 2 contains a 241-page Life History chart covering all British species.
A low-flying helicopter was used to spray 1,250 acres of wooden neighborhoods. ... A helicopter spraying to help control spongy moth caterpillar activity passes over the Oakwood neighborhood in ...
The family Lymantriidae contains the "tussock moths", of which 11 have been recorded in Great Britain: Gypsy moth (male) Laelia coenosa, reed tussock — extinct; Orgyia recens, scarce vapourer — east-central (Red Data Book) ‡ Orgyia antiqua, vapourer — throughout; Dicallomera fascelina, dark tussock — south, west-central & north-east ...
Macroglossum stellatarum, hummingbird hawk-moth — common migrant, resident in south-west; Proserpinus proserpina, willowherb hawk-moth — south and east (may be accidental import) Daphnis nerii, oleander hawk-moth — migrant; Hyles euphorbiae, spurge hawk-moth — migrant; Hyles gallii, bedstraw hawk-moth — migrant (occasionally over-winters)
A couple have created candles designed to smell like places in the West Midlands. Firm Dark Foundry No. 8 is run by Paul Briggs and Viki Smith, from Willenhall. Among others, their candles pay ...