Category: Nature

Leicestershire Wildlife Hospital will be holding a table top sale on Saturday 14 November in Kibworth Village Hall LE8 0LN from 10 to 12.45pm. There will be a good variety of stalls including homemade wooden good's, craft stalls, handmade cards, jewellery, Tropic skin care products, knitted and crochet goods, including lots of assorted homemade items, jigsaws books, pre loved clothes, raffle and lots more.

Simon Oldridge, an accountant and business consultant, has the gift of thinking outside the box about the issues surrounding our rapidly changing climate and its impact on our lives. He was particularly concerned about the gap between what the Government was thinking of doing about the climate challenges, and what scientists were proving needed to be done now.

This month features two bird species seen locally that have probably arrived from northern Canada.

Most moths have an English name and a Latin name; the latter based on scientific classification. This month’s subject has an extra English name so it is known as Small Mottled Willow, Beet Armyworm or Spodoptera exigua. Its larvae, an agricultural pest, have also been given a name ‘asparagus fern caterpillars’ and other less polite names by growers. Some of our moths are very colourful and photogenic. This species is unspectacular in appearance but readily identified by the pale brown spot on its otherwise grey wings.