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Recording Doncaster's Wildlife since 1880

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Colin’s Projects

        1. Monitoring an Anthrenus (Coleoptera, Dermestidae) infestation: an opportunist ‘Lockdown’ project.
        2. Just a minute! Thorne Moors Aphid New to Britain
        3. A Survey of Doncaster’s Wall-Ferns:
        4. The Horse-chestnut scale insect Pulvinaria regalis: a new resident on Doncaster’s Lakeside Boulevard.
        5. ‘Bathers in the Don‘ by Colin Howes, appeared in the Dalesman, August 1976
        6. Yorkshire Naturalists’ at War – Herbert Vincent Corbett
        7. Potteric Carr Willow Aphid ecology study 2025
        8. Dawn Chorus Study
        9. The Raft Spider Dolomedes fimbriatus on Thorne Moors
        10. The ‘Garden Centre’ Spider Uloborus plumipes in Yorkshire and adjacent areas
        11. The Hot House Spider Underground at Brodsworth Colliery
        12. Notes on the Spider Larinioides sclopetarius at Sykehouse Aqueduct
        13. Doncaster Lakeside Spiders have a ‘Website’ in the spotlight
        14. The ‘Bog Spider’ Araneus marmoreus Clerck in Britain
        15. Pseudoscorpions – by Colin Howes, The Naturalist (1971) 96: 18-23. 
        16. The pseudoscorpion Chthonius kewi in North Nottinghamshire and a note on its breeding. – The Naturalist (1972) 97 142. C.A. Howes
        17. Notes on the Rest-Harrow Plume Moth (Marasmarcha lunaedactyla) 
        18. Who Put the Chequer in Chequer Road? 
        19. Rare Spiders From the Doncaster Area 

Recent Posts

  • South Yorkshire Natural History Day at Treeton on 21st February 2026 5 February 2026
  • Next Meeting – 12th February 2026 at Parklands Club 1.30 pm 5 February 2026
  • Next Meeting – Thursday 5th February 2026 to Old Moor RSPB Reserve. 2 February 2026
  • The AGM is on Saturday 31st January 2026 at St Catherine’s House, Woodfield Park, Tickhill Road, Balby, Doncaster, DN4 8QP. 25 January 2026
  • Next Meeting – Thursday 15th January 2026, at Parklands Club. 10 January 2026

Gallery

Willow Warbler - Phylloscopus trochilus, Lound. Borage (Borago officinalis), Danes Hill NR, Notts.

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