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150301 | Cornwall Wildlife Trust support badger vaccination as the best option for Cornwall
Submitted by Cornwall Wildli... on Mon, 27/07/2020 - 17:09.
Cornwall Wildlife Trust support badger vaccination as the best option for Cornwall and have begun our vaccination programme on our North Cornwall nature reserves, as well as the West Cornwall vaccination programme, covering the entire Penwith peninsula. We work with farmers, vets, academics and others as part of the Cornwall TB Eradication Group, a group initiated by Defra.
Badger Vaccination - The Science read more »
Bees Go Quackers!!
Submitted by via Hayle Pump on Mon, 29/06/2020 - 13:53.
Scientists using highly sensitive vibration detectors have decoded honeybee queens' "tooting and quacking" duets in the hive.
Worker bees make new queens by sealing eggs inside special cells with wax and feeding them royal jelly. When ready to emerge the queens quack -but if two are free at the same time, they will fight to the death. So when one hatches, its quacks turn to toots, telling the workers to keep the queens , still quacking , captive. The queens responding to each other can be plainly heard.
It has been assumed that the queens were talking to other queens -possibly sizing one another up vocally to see who is strongest but there is another explanation.
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200613 | To mow or to grow? – how halving the cut will get our town verges buzzing
Submitted by via Cornwall Council on Tue, 16/06/2020 - 14:31.
191216 | Dolphin becomes stranded on Gwithian beach in Hayle
Submitted by via Google News... on Mon, 16/12/2019 - 17:35.
Dolphin becomes stranded on Gwithian beach in Hayle - Cornwall Live - Dolphin becomes stranded on Gwithian beach in Hayle Cornwall Live [Hayle and Angarrack news | Google]
Dolphin becomes stranded on Gwithian beach in Hayle
The dolphin is now back at sea read more »
191024 | New B-Lines to put the buzz back into Cornwall
Submitted by Angarrack.info ... on Wed, 30/10/2019 - 12:40.
New B-Lines to put the buzz back into Cornwall
An ambitious new plan for helping our bees, butterflies, hoverflies and other pollinating insects is being launched today by Buglife, the University of Exeter and Cornwall Council.
Cornwall B-Lines will create rivers of wildflowers across the countryside connecting the county’s best wildlife sites from coast to coast, and from our towns to the countryside. read more »
191028 | The Cornish bee has gone from near extinction to helping save the world
Submitted by via InYourArea ... on Tue, 29/10/2019 - 12:35.
191014 | Badger Cull making TB worse!
Submitted by via Change.Org ... on Mon, 14/10/2019 - 14:32.
190916 | Anger as badger shot dead during cull near Cornwall holiday park | staggering 83% of Cornwall now in badger cull zone
Submitted by via InYourArea ... on Tue, 08/10/2019 - 12:39.
Bee friendly...
Submitted by Angarrack.info ... on Tue, 01/10/2019 - 00:00.
