Here is your latest issue of Glas, the Llên Natur Bwletin in its newest guise.
The Welsh Poppy: a treasure or a weed?
How perceptions change: 20C, 8 June 2021 and no-one noticed!
The Morfa Bychan garfish
If the stones could only speak….! (the Newbourough warren ruins)
The evolution of our magazine since 2008
Sun halo seen from everywhere - 27 May?
The second Covid spring
Blood letting - a one-time medical procedure
Clwb y Llygaid Bach: Identifying the Owls
This year's Big Butterfly Count will take place between 16th July and 8th August.
Click here to find out how to participate.
On June 30th the Welsh Government formerly declared a nature emergency.
Click here to see how the decision was made.
We’ve recently been getting interesting records of two unusual garden spiders coming in to Cofnod.
Misumena vatia is a large crab spider which sits on flowers and captures bees and butterflies. If the female spider is sitting on a white flower her colour remains white, however she can change to bright yellow if she moves on to a yellow flower!
Nigma puella, the Bleeding Heart Spider was recorded for the first time in North Wales, but there must be more out there! This is a small (3 mm) white spider with pink and green markings that sits on garden foliage.
Please submit your records of these two species, with photographs, to Cofnod using the ORS or the LERC Wales App and help us map their distributions.
Earlier in June we provided another very informative online course in our "How to Record" series. This one was about Butterflies and was presented by the local expert, Jan Miller.
Click here to watch "How to Record" Butterflies
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 | Bumblebee Conservation Trust
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We've recently teamed up with Bumblebee Conservation, through their 'Skills for Bees' Cymru project, to deliver two sessions on Bumblebee identification.
Click here to watch Session 1
Click here to watch Session 2
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LERC Wales are working with Bumblebee Conservation Trust to map the rare bumblebees of Wales. For more information about the relevant species and how to submit your records, click below.
BIS (in Brecon) is advertising for a part-time, permanent IT Officer.
The post is 0.4 FTE (2 days/week), with opportunity for additional hours and pays £32,032 p.a., pro rata.
Closing date for applications is Thursday, 3rd June 2021 at noon. Interviews will be on Monday, 14th June.
Immerse yourself for 10 months in beautiful North Wales.
Be a valued member of our Countryside and Trees Team.
Closing date: 25th June 2021.
Further details.
Here is the May Bwletin (issue 159), full of the usual wonders!
* The old Aberdaron jetty - when and why?
* Celebrating nests
* The mystery of the fog bow
* What cues drive insects to fly in spring?
* The old red deer on Traeth Mawr - where did it come from?
* Dippers in Britanny - are they making a come- back?
* Clwb a Llygaid Bach: Recognising Birds of the Uplands