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GNS at Stroud Festival of Nature
GNS were at the Stroud Festival of Nature event in Stratford Park, Stroud on Saturday 7th September. This remarkable gathering of Nature and Wildlife oriented individuals and societies largely driven and…
Events This Weekend 7th & 8th September
On Saturday 7th September, Gloucestershire Naturalists’ Society will be at the Stroud Festival of Nature in Stratford Park, Stroud – this is an event for all things connected with Nature…
Letter from the Chair, August 2013
Dear Members In the Letter from the Chair in the last issue of GNS NEWS, I drew attention to the new subscription rates approved at the 2013 Annual General Meeting…
Comma caterpillars, Standish, 18 August 2013
Pulling up nettles in my veg garden I came across several Comma (Polygonia c-album) caterpillars, which I moved to another nettle patch in a different part of the garden, where…
Silver-washed Fritillary f. valesina
Silver-washed Fritillary butterfly – Argynnis paphia paphia f.valesina seen at Chedworth Roman Villa SP053135, on August 8th 2013 by Will Atkins. This form occurs in a small amount of females,…
Common lizards (Lacerta vivipara/Zootoca vivipara), nr Parkend in Forest of Dean.
At around 11am last Sunday (11 August) I saw a group of 5 to 8 common lizards sun bathing on a fence rail where the Forest of Dean cycle trail crosses the B4234…
Dragonflies at Woorgreens, Saturday 10th August 2013
Ingrid Twissell, the county Dragonfly recorder led a walk on Saturday 10th August at Woorgreens in the Forest of Dean. Ingrid was joined by her husband, Colin, recently retired Amphibian…
GNS Field Meeting 27th July 2013 – The Forest in Summer
Nine GNS members joined Andrew Bluett for a summer walk in the Forest of Dean on Saturday morning, the 27th July. The hoped for Wild Boar did not appear, it…
Weedy arable fields
Many autumn-sown crops were growing so poorly and patchily after the wet winter and cold spring that they were ploughed up and replanted. On a Standish farm, only one of…
Mud puddling butterflies, Standish, 18 July 2013
A group of 7 or more butterflies – Small White (Pieris rapae) and Green-veined (Pieris napi), I think – were mud-puddling on the edge of my garden pond. According to…
Garden tiger moth (Arctia caja) in Gloucester
A single Garden tiger moth (Arctia caja) was spotted today (09/07/13) at 15:15hrs on the Gloucestershire Archives site (OS Map ref: SO835189). Butterfly was resting on a window on the…
Field Meeting at Edge Common 30th June 2013
Linda Moore of GCER led a field meeting on 30th June 2013 mainly to look at flowers of the limestone grassland. Edge Common is an area of undisturbed and unimproved…