Bugs, bees and beasties- Bio-diversity matters

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Why don't we get stag beetles north of the Watford gap?

 

because it was the midlands that got raped for wood during the wars I believe, hence there are vast swathes of baron like milton keynes etc

 

but i may be wrong

[tommer9]

Why don't we get stag beetles north of the Watford gap?

 

I cant answer that, and didnt realise that you didnt, but having read Tonys reply to this question, i would ask could they be re-introduced?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I cant answer that, and didnt realise that you didnt, but having read Tonys reply to this question, i would ask could they be re-introduced?

 

oh you lads fill me with joy, you really do have no idea!

 

Ive done this once before, find the wood, and i will bring!

[tommer9]

Haha- really looking forward to meeting you more than just a handshake at Capel mate...

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Haha- really looking forward to meeting you more than just a handshake at Capel mate...

 

we will have "a right crack" as they say, looking forward to it too fella, junes going to be full of meets and experiences for me!

 

got the ATF summer meet, , go from that to the AA fair for the last day and then on to cornwall to meet you and do a weeks RR in cornish country! at the end of the month im off to a bat course for three days and meeting a lad with an intersting fungal comunity to investigate on the way over there!

 

and my birthdays on 3rd june too!

 

rock on june i say!

[tommer9]

 

 

 

and my birthdays on 3rd june too!

 

 

Righto......better catch a couple of birthday beers or summat then!!

[armchairarborist]

took this small pear down for a client, as soon as it was down she said the woodpecker had been visiting it every day, immediately felt angry and very guilty..

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

took this small pear down for a client, as soon as it was down she said the woodpecker had been visiting it every day, immediately felt angry and very guilty..

 

if a woodpecker was visiting my dead or dying tree every day the last thing I would want to do is remove the very reason the pecker visits!

 

 

I had a pond in the back yard, i bought about a dozen very small Rudd for it, within 6 months A kingfisher had found my pond and within a week had cleaned me out of rudd!

 

I did not mind in the slightest, in fact i couldnt have been more delighted!

[dannyT]

rudd are an endangered species of fish now (numbers are falling and numbers are falling every year like the crucian carp) these are in need of more protection. Kingfishers are on the rise. Just because fish are'nt cuddly or feathered...............................Come on hama your the first to bang on about biodiversity and how people are'nt interested in fungi and bugs etc, what about fish...............................

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

rudd are an endangered species of fish now (numbers are falling and numbers are falling every year like the crucian carp) these are in need of more protection. Kingfishers are on the rise. Just because fish are'nt cuddly or feathered...............................Come on hama your the first to bang on about biodiversity and how people are'nt interested in fungi and bugs etc, what about fish...............................

 

This issue is more an angling one, the over development of King carp fisheries is pushing out lesser species, but the rudd is not endangered danny, i PROMISE you, i could take you to many many waters where one of which we take the kids to catch a rudd a chuck, horshoe lake has the biggest rudd in the country.

 

Biodiversity of lakes is an issue i have dealt with elswhere, but thank you for enlightening those that are unaware of another side of "natural nieghbourhood"