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Recording Doncaster's Wildlife since 1880

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Archive

Publications

Contents of Cupbpoard at Museum

Update on Contents of Cupboard at Museum (March 2025)

DNS Archive Cupboard

Notes on the Doncaster Naturalists’ Society Microscopes

More Notes on the DNS Microscope (March 2025)

Archive Catalogue Sept 2025

Records rescued from Colin’s old office at the Museum.

Recent Posts

  • Next Meeting – Friday 7th August 2026 for Chesterfield Canal walk 31 July 2026
  • Next Meeting – Monday 27th July 2026 to Brookfield Park. 24 July 2026
  • Next Meeting – Wednesday 15th July 2026 to Thorpe Marsh NNR 13 July 2026
  • Next Meeting – Saturday July 4th, 2026 at Denaby Delf 30 June 2026
  • Next Meeting – Friday 26 June 2026 to Brockadale 22 June 2026

Gallery

Aceria centaurea on Greater Knapweed, Edenthorpe, Doncaster (upper and under surface of leaf) Didymium squamulosum - Howell Wood.

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Slideshow

Pansy Dasineura plicatrix on Bramble (midge), Potteric Carr Obolodiplosis robiniae - midge galls on False acacia-Worchester Road, Doncaster. Drone fly,Eristalis tenax on Ivy by Nora Boyle. Thorne Rd,18.11.23 Chiffchaff - Phylloscopus collybita, Lound. Conops vesicularis on Bilberry, Sherwood Forest. Mining Bee - Sphecodes ephippius, Potteric Carr (7/6/26). Hygrocybe calyptriformis - Pink Waxcap, Longshaw NT, Derbyshire. Common Spotted-orchid (Dactylorhiza fuchsia), Sprotbrough. Coprinus micaceus - Glistening Inkcap, Clumber Park, Notts.
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