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Species

Snake's-head fritillary

The nodding, pink-and-purple-chequered flowers of the snake's-head fritillary are said to resemble a snake, hence the name. Declining with the loss of our meadows, this delicate plant can be…

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Identify UK snakes

Grass snake or adder? The UK has three species of grass snake, adder and smooth snake. Want to know how to identify British snakes? Read our guide to work out what snake you've spotted.
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Wildflower meadows

Find out where to see wildflower meadows in bloom. Visit these flowery fields from spring through summer into autumn to enjoy orchids, fritillaries, and buttercups, not forgetting the butterflies, bumblebees, and dragonflies drawn in.
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Talk: Wildflowers

This link will open on the Suffolk Wildlife Trust website.

Steve Aylward from Suffolk Wildlife Trust will share his knowledge of the wildflowers to be found on the Trust's reserves

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Wildflower ID Course

This link will open on the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust website.

Join Community Ecologist Susan Simmonds at St Catherine's Hill Nature Reserve for a morning of Wildflower Identification

Volunteer Opportunity

Wildflower plug planting

This link will open on the Cumbria Wildlife Trust website.

Help us enhance the meadows of Cumbria by plug planting wildflowers this autumn

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Wildflower Meadows

This link will open on the Gwent Wildlife Trust website.

An illustrated talk by Dr Steph Tyler MBE.

Volunteer Opportunity

Wildflower & Tree Nursery Volunteer

This link will open on the Cheshire Wildlife Trust website.

Since its creation five years ago the Bickley Hall Farm Nursery has grown from strength to strength. We grow a variety of native broadleaved trees and wildflowers which help to support the Trust’s…

Nature Reserve

Fox Fritillary Meadow Nature Reserve

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Fox Fritillary Meadow is an ancient floodplain and the largest of four remaining sites for the snake's head fritillary in Suffolk.

Species

Glanville fritillary

The Glanville fritillary can be spotted on warm days around coastal habitats on the Isle of Wight and the Channel Islands, as well as at a few locations in mainland England.

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Heath fritillary

The rare heath fritillary was on the brink of extinction in the 1970s, but conservation action turned its fortunes around. It is still confined to a small number of sites in the south of England,…