Village News

Christmas Lights

Articles

140910 | Duchy Supports Project to Save Cornish Black Honey Bees

Duchy Supports Project to Save Cornish Black Honey Bees

The Prince of Wales meets Andrew Brown, Lt. Col. Bentham-Green and Rodger Dewhurst from the B4 Project at Duchy of Cornwall Nursery in July 2014.

The Duchy of Cornwall is supporting a project to save the Cornish remnants of the native Black Honey Bee.  read more »

Cornish Black Honey Bee (Apis mellifera mellifera or Amm)

Facts about the Cornish Black Bee  read more »

190723 | Farmer-led badger vaccination project off to flying start

23rd July

Farmer-led badger vaccination project off to flying start

 Andrew Parkinson-2020VISION

Photo: Andrew Parkinson-2020VISION  read more »

1994 | FIRECREST - Regulus ignica, singles at Illogan, Saltash, Angarrack

Uncommon passage migrant (mainly autumn) and winter visitor. A potential breeding species (cf. probable breeding in Devon since 1985).  read more »

1994 | CETTFS WARBLER - Cettia cetti at Angarrack in 1981 and 1982, but sadly the habitat was destroyed for road and industrial

Cetti's warbler by the Kalloni east river, Lesvos, Greece / Mark S Jobling / CC-BY-SA-3.0

CETTFS WARBLER - Cettia cetti

Scarce resident. Breeds. Uncommon passage migrant.  read more »

190521 | Let your garden go wild to help bees and butterflies

£1.8 billion cost of replacing bee pollination 28% Cornish bumblebees now extinct
Top tips to help pollinators: 1. Create homes; 2, Be less tidy!
Top tips to help pollinators: 3 Plant, 4 Go organic, 5 Ditch pesticides

Let your garden go wild to help bees and butterflies

I’ve always thought of my garden as rather messy, but actually, it’s pretty environmentally-friendly, with loads of daisies like this, for starters …  read more »