THE SOUTH HOLDERNESS COUNTRY SOCIETY was set up in 1983 with the primary aim of Making a Better Place for Wildlife.
This Patrington-based voluntary organisation certainly seems to be doing a good job. It owns two nature reserves, Beacon Lagoons and Hollym Carrs, and has over 100 subscribing members. The Society has also been bequeathed an old farmhouse, Ivy House, which will act as their headquarters and base of operations.
The Society recently got a small grant of £700 from the National Grid to help them provide an educational project for adults and children using a variety of items including bird nesting boxes, bird feeders, bee nest boxes and insect homes.
New members and volunteers to work on the nature reserves and other projects are always welcome – so if you have time to give and love wildlife and nature, then find out more at: www.southholdernesscountrysidesociety.co.uk
Whilst visiting the Society’s website do visit the amazing gallery of wildlife pictures taken by photographer David Constantine.
Spotted this crawling up my jacket! It was a green beetle with a brown triangle on its back. It flashed its wings – and underneath its wing case it was a brilliant red colour! It didn’t fly away however, it fell to the floor and crawled away.
Does anybody know what this was?
Dear Derek, sorry this is a late reply but we few who check our site have been away working or holidays.
We receive many reports of this impressive moth which is not uncommon and if there is a connection with increasing reports, it appears to becoming more common.
Thanks for reporting this to us.
Kind regards
Peter Cook, Chairman
I spotted a Humming-bird Hawk-moth (Macroglossum stellatarum) in my Burton Pidsea front garden today (4 July 2011). It was feeding on a bright, dark pink, dianthus, and the moth made several visits over a ten minute period. I do not think I have ever seen this creature before. Is this moth very unusual in these parts ?
Deadly Derek
Derek – You might be interested to know that we covered this as an article on the Hedon Blog accompanied by some amazing photos of the moth found on Wikipedia.