Frankie and Josie found an abandoned swallow nest in their back garden. It contains cracked egg shells, a soft feather lining and mud and moss. The nest had fallen from a wall.
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 Click image to see video of Mating Emperor Moths
The other day I found a slow worm in my garden! My cat was teasing it and flinging it around I rescued it from her, it had a skin wound and it was bleeding but luckily I saved it just in time and it survived! by Keren Davies The results of the moth trapping to week 36 are shown below:  GMS summary to week 36 I have lots of sparrows in my garden. I feed them everyday with seeds.In the winter we make a shelter for them .I will let you know if sparrows are in the shelter. by Henry Lumley
suprisingly the moth in my garden has come out of its chrysaliss.We are all hoping it will make it through the winter. The school’s moth and bat evening went off with a bang on the 18th of September 2009. In the early evening we searched the school grounds for moths and bats. The bats began to gobble up the moths and only hung around the black soupy depths of the dimly lit sky. Katie Loader. Katie found a small brown moth about the size of a thumb nail. It looked evil and vaguely menacing. |
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A number of Emperor Moth caterpillars were successfully reared by the school to the pupa stage last summer. Just before Easter this year some of the adult moths began emerging from the pupae!! This video shows a female Emperor Moth that hatched from her pupa last week (well spotted Class 3!) and attracted a male Emperor Moth from the wild. Click on the image below to see the female moth waiting on the outside of the rearing net, the male moth arriving and then mating with her. If you listen to the soundtrack you can hear another male Emperor Moth searching for the female in the net!
