Rose chafer
The rose chafer can be spotted on garden flowers, as well as in grassland, woodland edges and scrub.
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The rose chafer can be spotted on garden flowers, as well as in grassland, woodland edges and scrub.
The noble chafer is a rare and beautiful metallic-green beetle that can be found in traditional orchards. It is on the wing over summer, feeding on umbellifers. The larvae live in the decaying…
Would you like to get stuck into some outdoor conservation work?
Join us for a practical conservation task day of dry stone walling at Chafer Wood Nature Reserve.
Enjoy an uplifting and invigorating walk through this idyllic broadleaved woodland and take in the breathtaking views across the Vale of Pickering.
Have you got woodland and a camera trap? Help monitor our woodlands by setting up a camera trap on your land or identify wildlife online.
Woodlands are magical places, full of wildlife and full of history. Great spotted woodpeckers, nuthatches and jays flit between trees as butterflies dance in sunny glades. Badgers forage through…
A guided walk and introduction to the approaches of retaining and enhancing habitat for ground nesting birds alongside woodland creation.
Look for the wood warbler singing from the canopy of oak woodlands in the north and west of the UK. Green above, it has a distinctive, bright yellow throat and eyestripe.
Few of us can contemplate having a wood in our back gardens, but just a few metres is enough to establish this mini-habitat!
Join the Trust's Northern Reserves Officer on a guided walk around Edmondsley Wood this spring.
Wet woodlands in the UK can be wild, secretive places. Tangles of trailing creepers, tussocky sedges and lush tall-herbs conceal swampy pools and partially submerged fallen willow trunks, likely…