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... Nature Notes . • • _ .. URCHIN OF TIIE ROOFTOPS I walked towards the broken cared aerial evolution, the while. , black line of tall bare trees. and Thousands upon thousands of wondered as I stumbled over the chattering ,tailings there must sticky mud ...
... NATURE NOTES A CORRESPONDENT asks. hat exactly is cuckoo spit? It the protective covering of the larva of the tiny boat-shaped froghopper. But it is the larva, not the adult insect we are going to discuss. The larva is a slimy greenish. soft-bodied ...
... 'NATURE ;NOTES hallow wa lorl p.:trel, a se., bud till .1. was drisen Inland by stor , wea:h:r and the thud it, kind recorded in the cow The only known Lump. breeding stations this is:. are in the British in ht. the Flannans. North ROIIJ, and a few islands ...
... NATURE NOTES Have you seen how handsome the goldftnsh looks, with his brilliant red cheeks and throat, his black cap and the gold bars on his wings, as he perches on thistle head, pecking away at the seeds, and every now and then giving that tinkling ...
... /Nature /Notes the woods the speckled wood butterfly is on the wing. It is an extremely pretty blackish(b row n insect, marked with creamy-yellow spots. The forewings have a white-pupilled black eye towards their tips, and the hind-wings have three similar ...
... Nature Notes colours of metallic blue and red. It cannot be bred on a commercial basis in this country and one specimen costs £6! A peculiar fact about this fish is that when it dies, if placed on blotting paper. the colour soaks into the paper ...
... NATURE NOTES itrAR that anglers holding a competition in the Tring Anglei water on Stu day. weighed in 32 pounds of Csh. and . returned th,:in to the wan.' alive. ' Not being a follower of Walton my.elf I am afriid I know nothing of li.th-lore. _ _ But ...
... NATURE NOTES There arc about 3.500 different kinds of grasses growing all over the world, from the South Pole right up to the North Pole. The grasses growing in the hot countries arc mfuch taller and liner than ours, but there are many beautiful specimens ...
... NATURE NOTES A CORRESPONDENT from Radlett. Hertfordshire. writes recalling the days when he lived in tne Aylesbury district. He remembers seeing the lovely purple emperor. flying high around the oak trces, and states that if you want to catch them vou ...
... Nature Notes Huas Advertiser & Aylesbury News, Friday, June 11, 1948-5 ...
... NATURE NOTES Th.: misty magi: of the sea. the scream of a thousand wheeling gannets, and the strange loneliness of a deserted island—the remotest spot in the British Isles -- these were some of the highlights otl atmosphere brilliantly described) by the ...
... NATURE NOTES DURING the past week I have had the ppoi tunny of seLing two of our lovely native caterpillars construct thir unusual cocoons. It was along a sunlit lane that I found the brightly-coloured caterpillar of the emperor moth. It soon made ...