Cambs & Beds 2022

Woodwalton Fen & Monks Wood - July

I’ve lumped these 2 together due to proximity tho the habitats are very different.

Woodwalton is internationally important for wildlife and provides a refuge for thousands of species of fen animals and plants, many of which are found nowhere else in the country.

Monks Wood is one of Britain’s best known lowland woods, home to many species of wild plant and a rich insect fauna.

Images - White Admiral, Small China Mark, Short-winged Conehead, Scarce Emerald, Scarce Chaser, Purple Emperor, Ruddy Darter, Parent Bug, Ladder Gall on reed, Lsr Marsh Grasshopper, Larinioides cornutus, Golden-haired Robberfly

Devils Dyke - July

The Ditch’ (as it is known locally) is a 7-mile-long embankment, thrown up in Anglo-Saxon times. It is scheduled as a SSSI site. Cutting thru chalkland makes it interesting for insects and fauna particular the that environment.

Images - Volucella zonaria, Psyche casta, Silpha atrata, Greenfinch, Graptopeltus lynceus, Chalkhill Blue x2, Candy-stripe Spider, Amblyjoppa fuscipennis

Brampton Wood - July

Brampton Wood SSSI is owned and managed by The Wildlife Trusts for Beds, Cambs & Northants as a nature reserve. It’s the second largest ancient woodland in Cambridgeshire and is at least 900 years old. I home to a vast array of flora and fauna including the very rare Black Hairstreak Butterfly.

Images - Silver-washed Fritillary, Gasteruption species, Cantharis lateralis, Purple Hairstreak, Stictoleptura scutellata, Speckled Bush Cricket, Variable Longhorn Beetle, Stictopleurus punctatonervosus, Tumbling Flower Beetle