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British Invertebrates - terrestrial and freshwater
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Oil beetle (
Meloe proscarabaeus
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The oil beetles are a family of beetles that share a fascinating life-cycle in which the larvae are parasites of certain bees or...
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6 Images
5 Videos
Olive crescent moth (
Trisateles emortualis
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Adults of the rare Olive Crescent moth are orange-brown in colour with whitish cross-lines...
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Orange upperwing moth (
Jodia croceago
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This rare moth has pale buff underwings and, as its name suggests, orange forewings, delicately marked with darker lines and dots...
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Orange-tip (
Anthocharis cardamines
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Only male orange-tip butterflies actually have orange tips to their forewings; females have black or greyish wing tips. In both...
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3rd November 2009: IUCN Red List of Threatened Species - Extinction crisis continues
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Under the Sea
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The giant clam is the largest species of bivalve mollusc on fossil record and can weigh up to 300kg.
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The basking shark is the second largest fish in the sea, reaching up to 10 metres in length.
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