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Biological Records Centre Science Review 2026

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The UK Biological Records Centre has just published its Science Review 2026. This covers 110 different recording schemes, 25,536 different species, 168,665 1km grids samp...

Happening in Hamilton

Hamilton resident Alan Bevington writes: Since 1990 Hamilton in the north-east of the city of Leicester has seen considerable new housing development. In spite of this it...

Lesser Yellowlegs

Species of the Month September 2026

The NatureSpot Species of the Month for September is this image of a Lesser Yellowlegs, taken by NatureSpot contributor Marian Markham.

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Torymus bedeguaris male emerging from Bedeguar Gall

More than meets the eye

A Robin's Pincushion (Bedeguar Gall) isn't just a home for the wasp larvae that caused the gall to form, it's a thriving miniature ecosystem.

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7-spot Ladybird

7-spot Ladybird

Coccinella septempunctata

15 October 2026

Loddington, footpath off Loddington Lane

Little Grebe

Tachybaptus ruficollis

Melton Country Park

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Gadwall

Mareca strepera

Melton Country Park

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Grey Heron

Melton Country Park

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Western Honey Bee

Western Honey Bee

Western Honey Bee

Western Honey Bee

Western Honey Bee

Western Honey Bee

Rabbit

Oryctolagus cuniculus

Groby, Old Wood

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The Little Things that Run the World - Alan Cann - Knighton Wild

Knighton Parish Centre, Church Lane, LE2 3WG

Market Bosworth & District Natural History Society: The Bats of UK and Their Ecology and Conservation Tricia Scott

St Peter's Primary Academy, Market Bosworth

Contrasting floras - Charnwood and Rutland - Steve Woodward - The Sowter Lecture - Leicester Lit & Phil Natural History Section

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LROS - A North West Year - Chris Galvin

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Pyrrhocoris apterus
14 September 2026
Rutland Water, Manton Bay
Timothy Sexton
Lindneromyia dorsalis
29 September 2026
Oadby garden
GHunt
Geophilus carpophagus
18 July 2026
Thurlaston garden
egaten

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