Summary The ‘Devil’s Hole’ is a large active blowout that originated in the early 1940s at Ravenmeols Local Nature Reserve on the Sefton Coast dunes. Wind erosion produced two calcareous, seasonally-flooded, dune-slacks that are still growing. Their floristic development was studied between 2004 and 2022, annual changes being monitored from 2012. By 2022, a total...
Two cold snaps early in the month were followed by much milder, damp weather, 15 days of measurable rain leading to a 20cm (8 inches) rise in the sand-dune water-table. Nevertheless, we had slightly less than normal rainfall for the month. The Met Office reported that December was the only month of 2022 with below...
Unbelievably we seem to have arrived at the end of another year! Where has the time gone? While the year has flown by we have been kept busy here at BioBank and this year has certainly been one of change…
This spreadsheet provides separate checklists for the picture-wing flies of VC58 (Cheshire), VC59 (South Lancashire) and West Lancashire (VC60) as at December 2021. For further details including the sources of data, national conservation status and the definition of “occurrence” see: Brighton, P. 2021. The Diptera of Lancashire and Cheshire: Picture-wing Flies (Opomyzidae, Pallopteridae, Platystomatidae, Tephritidae,...