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Little Paxton Pits
Little Paxton Pits is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Little Paxton in Cambridgeshire. Part of it is also a 60 hectare Local Nature Reserve (LNR). These flooded former gravel pits are of national importance for wintering wildfowl, especially gadwalls. There are several nationally rare flies, such as '' Spilogona scutulata'', '' Limnophora scrupulosa'', '' Dolichopus andulusiacus'' and ''Lispocephala falculata''. Flora include common spotted-orchid ''Dactylorhiza fuchsii'', the common spotted orchid, is a species of flowering plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae. ''Dactylorhiza fuchsii'' is one of Europe's commonest wild orchids. It is widespread across much of Europe, with the range ext ...s and hare’s-foot clover. There is access to the LNR from the High Street. References {{Local Nature Reserves in Cambridgeshire Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cambridgeshire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Site Of Special Scientific Interest
A Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Great Britain or an Area of Special Scientific Interest (ASSI) in the Isle of Man and Northern Ireland is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom and Isle of Man. SSSI/ASSIs are the basic building block of site-based nature conservation legislation and most other legal nature/geological conservation designations in the United Kingdom are based upon them, including national nature reserves, Ramsar sites, Special Protection Areas, and Special Areas of Conservation. The acronym "SSSI" is often pronounced "triple-S I". Selection and conservation Sites notified for their biological interest are known as Biological SSSIs (or ASSIs), and those notified for geological or physiographic interest are Geological SSSIs (or ASSIs). Sites may be divided into management units, with some areas including units that are noted for both biological and geological interest. Biological Biological SSSI/ASSIs may ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Paxton
Little Paxton in Cambridgeshire, England is a village and civil parish that lies south of Huntingdon and north of St Neots. It is in the district and historic county of Huntingdonshire. Until the 1970s it was a minor village and the church was under threat of closure. The building of a housing estate and a junior school revived its fortunes and the establishment of the Paxton Pits Nature Reserve around part of the nearby gravel pits has brought visitors to the village. The nature reserve features lakes, woodland and part of the Ouse floodplain and is home to large numbers of cormorants and many summer visitors such as nightingales and a large number of passerine birds. Grebes, ducks and geese have colonised the lakes. The population of the village of Little Paxton is now much larger than that of Great Paxton. History Little Paxton is not explicitly mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 but is covered by the entry for Great Paxton (or Pachstone as it was then). At that time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs.) is a Counties of England, county in the East of England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the north-east, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west. The city of Cambridge is the county town. Following the Local Government Act 1972 restructuring, modern Cambridgeshire was formed in 1974 through the amalgamation of two administrative counties: Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely, comprising the Historic counties of England, historic county of Cambridgeshire (including the Isle of Ely); and Huntingdon and Peterborough, comprising the historic county of Huntingdonshire and the Soke of Peterborough, historically part of Northamptonshire. Cambridgeshire contains most of the region known as Silicon Fen. The county is now divided between Cambridgeshire County Council and Peterborough City Council, which since 1998 has formed a separate Unitary authorities of England, unita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anas Strepera
The gadwall (''Mareca strepera'') is a common and widespread dabbling duck in the family Anatidae. Taxonomy The gadwall was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his landmark 1758 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae''. DNA studies have shown that it is a sister species with the falcated duck; the two are closely related to the three species of wigeons, and all of them have been assigned to the genus ''Mareca''. There are two subspecies: * ''M. s. strepera'', the common gadwall, described by Linnaeus, is the nominate subspecies. * ''M. s. couesi'', Coues's gadwall, extinct 1874, was formerly found only on Teraina, a coral atoll in the Pacific Ocean. The specific name ''strepera'' is Late Latin for "noisy". The etymology of the word ''gadwall'' is not known, but the name has been in use since 1666. Description The gadwall is long with a wingspan. The male is slightly larger than the female, weighing on average against her . The breeding male is patterned grey, with a black re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spilogona Scutulata
Spilogona is a very large genus of flies from the family Muscidae. Species *''Spilogona acrostichalis'' ( Stein, 1916) *''Spilogona acuticornis'' ( Malloch, 1920 *''Spilogona aenea'' Huckett, 1965 *'' Spilogona aerea'' ( Fallén, 1825) *''Spilogona aestuarium'' Huckett, 1965 *''Spilogona alberta'' (Huckett, 1932) *''Spilogona albifrons'' Malloch, 1931 *''Spilogona albinepennis'' Huckett, 1965 *''Spilogona albisquama'' (Ringdahl, 1932) *''Spilogona almqvistii'' (Holmgren, 1880) *''Spilogona alpica'' (Zetterstedt, 1845) *''Spilogona anthrax'' ( Bigot, 1885) *''Spilogona arcticola'' Huckett, 1965 *'' Spilogona arenosa'' (Ringdahl, 1918) *'' Spilogona argenticeps'' Malloch, 1924 *'' Spilogona argentifrons'' Malloch, 1931 *'' Spilogona argentiventris'' ( Malloch, 1920) *'' Spilogona atricans'' ( Pandellé, 1899) *'' Spilogona atrisquamula'' Hennig, 1959 *'' Spilogona aucklandica'' ( Hutton, 1902) *'' Spilogona aureifaces'' Malloch, 1931 *'' Spilogona austriaca'' (Ringdahl, 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Limnophora Scrupulosa
''Limnophora'' is a genus of flies, belonging to the family Muscidae. The flies are characterized by silver bands across their thorax. The tribe Limnophorini is named from the genus. The genus includes the following species: *'' Limnophora corvina'' (Giglio-Tos, 1893) *'' Limnophora discreta'' Stein, 1898 *'' Limnophora femorata'' (Malloch, 1913) *''Limnophora garrula'' (Giglio-Tos, 1893) *''Limnophora groenlandica'' Malloch, 1920 *''Limnophora incrassata'' Malloch, 1919 *''Limnophora invada'' Huckett, 1966 *''Limnophora minuscula'' (Wulp, 1896) *''Limnophora narona'' Walker *''Limnophora nigripes'' (Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830) *''Limnophora normata'' Bigot, 1885 *''Limnophora rotundata'' (Collin, 1930) *''Limnophora sinuata'' Collin, 1930 *''Limnophora uniseta ''Limnophora'' is a genus of flies, belonging to the family Muscidae. The flies are characterized by silver bands across their thorax. The tribe Limnophorini is named from the genus. The genus includes the following spe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dolichopus Andulusiacus
''Dolichopus'' is a large cosmopolitan genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. Adults are small flies, typically less than 8 mm in length. Nearly all species are metallic greenish-blue to greenish-bronze. It is the largest genus of Dolichopodidae with more than 600 species worldwide. The name of the genus (''δολιχός'', long, and ''ποὺς'', foot) refers to the length of the feet of its species. Gallery File:Dolichopus spec. with prey.ogv, ''Dolichopus sp.'' female with prey (video, 1m 23s) File:Dolichopus P1070821a.jpg File:Dolichopus P1070659a.jpg Species groups and subgenera The following species groups exist in ''Dolichopus'': * ''Dolichopus latipennis'' species group (= ''Hygroceleuthus'' Loew, 1857) * ''Dolichopus lonchophorus'' species group * ''Dolichopus longisetus'' species group * ''Dolichopus planitarsis'' species group (8 species) – Palaearctic * ''Dolichopus plumipes'' species group (11 species) – Palaearctic * ''Dolichopus sagittarius' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lispocephala Falculata
''Lispocephala'' is a very large genus of true flies of the family Muscidae. Description frons are broad in both sexes. There are two orbital setae and two frontal setae on each fronta-orbital plate. Biology The biology of the genus is, at present unknown, only a pupa of one species ('' L. alma'') has been described. Some ''Lispocephala'' are known to be specialized predators on Drosophilidae in the Hawaiian Islands. Species *'' L. alma'' ( Meigen, 1826) *'' L. bistriata'' ( Stein, 1908) *'' L. brachialis'' ( Rondani, 1877) *'' L. erythrocera'' (Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830) *'' L. falculata'' Collin, 1963 *'' L. fuscitibia'' Ringdahl, 1944 *'' L. mikii'' ( Strobl, 1893) *'' L. pallipalpis'' (Zetterstedt, 1845) *'' L. rubricornis'' (Zetterstedt, 1849) *'' L. spuria'' (Zetterstedt, 1838) *'' L. ungulata'' ( Rondani, 1866) *'' L. verna'' (Fabricius Fabricius ( la, smith, german: Schmied, Schmidt) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *people from the Ancient Rom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Common Spotted-orchid
''Dactylorhiza fuchsii'', the common spotted orchid, is a species of flowering plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae. ''Dactylorhiza fuchsii'' is one of Europe's commonest wild orchids. It is widespread across much of Europe, with the range extending eastward into Siberia, Mongolia and Xinjiang. The species is also reportedly naturalised in the Canadian Province of Ontario. ''Dactylorhiza fuchsii'' is a herbaceous perennial plant ranging from in height. The inflorescence is a dense-flowered spike, produced in June–August, that is at first conical then cylindrical. The flower colour can vary from white to pale purple with purple spots, a symmetrical pattern of dark purple loops or dots and dashes. The lip has three lobes. The bracts are usually shorter than the flower. The lip is smaller than that of the very similar ''Dactylorhiza maculata'' and has three deeper cuts. The middle lobe is more than half as large as a lateral lobe. Some colonies are highly perfumed, attractive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trifolium Arvense
''Trifolium arvense'', commonly known as the hare's-foot clover, rabbitfoot clover, stone clover or oldfield clover, is a flowering plant in the bean family Fabaceae. This species of clover is native to most of Europe, excluding the Arctic zone, and western Asia, in plain or mid-mountain habitats up to altitude. It grows in dry sandy soils, both acidic and alkaline, soil with dry-mesic conditions and is typically found at the edge of fields, in wastelands, at the side of roads, on sand dunes, and opportunistically in vineyards and orchards when they are not irrigated. Description ''Trifolium arvense'' is a small erect herbaceous annual or biennial plant, growing to 10–40 cm tall. Like all clovers, its leaves are trifoliate, divided into three slender, sessile leaflets 1–2 cm long and 3–5 mm broad, sometimes edged with small hairs and finely serrated. The leaves have a pair of stipules at the base, often tipped in red. The flowers are grouped in a den ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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