Busy few evenings helping an after school nature club design and create their bug garden. The children really got into the spirit of it and showed a great deal of thought in their habitat ideas. Looking forward to going back and doing a bug hunt with them when it gets warmer. Great stuff and fabulous to get our hands dirty! What I would love to see there one day is our magnificent Stag Beetles, Lucanus cervus. Just the most awesome beetle – check it out on www.ptes.org/stagbeetles .Near to the school I know there are Lesser Stag Beetles, Dorcus parallelipidedus, to be found. Equally cool but try saying the second latin name out loud in one go. Have built a great log pile of assorted species of deciduous wood so you just never know.....
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| Meet the gorgeous Dorcus. |
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