Glorious grasslands
A summer meadow is a beautiful sight, but there’s so much more to it than gently waving grass heads and fabulous flowers.
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A summer meadow is a beautiful sight, but there’s so much more to it than gently waving grass heads and fabulous flowers.
The grasslands have unique properties, enabling them to support a specific range of common and rare wildflowers, as well as invertebrates, wading birds and mammals.
Join this training session to learn how to ID wildflowers and grasslands.
The flower crab spider is one of 27 species of crab spider. The flower crab spider can alter the colour of its body to match its surroundings and to hide from prey. It is not as common as other…
The hairy-footed flower bee can be seen in gardens and parks in spring and summer, visiting tubular flowers like red dead-nettle and comfrey. As its name suggests, it has long, orange hairs on its…
A site of unusual geology and associated flora
Flower-rich grasslands, once a part of every farm, are part of our culture. Most have developed alongside humans because of livestock grazing and cutting for hay. Many have archaeological and…
The Wildlife Trusts’ petition - with 8,450 signatures collected in just four weeks - is handed to Environment Minister, Owen Paterson, today
Guided walk at East Pit to look for chalk grassland flowers
A walk around the popular beach at Trearddur Bay and along the headlands to our hidden nature reserve at Porth Diana. starting from the Sea Shanty café.
Here, Eleanor Dodson, digital marketing & communications officer from Wiltshire Wildlife Trust shares more of the wonderful wildlife that can be found at this great spot!
We are trialling rapid grassland assessments at our Greater Manchester sites for the first time. This is to give us a better understanding of our grasslands and inform our management so that we…