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EFC Centre at Wat Tyler Country ParkOur centre is available for visits on a pre-booked basis on Wednesdays between 10am - 4pm. The Club’s activities and displays are also usually open to the public on the first Saturday of the month 11am - 4pm.

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Smooth Newt

Minthos rufiventis

Garden Spider waiting patiently

Rosemary Beetle on Rosemary

Zebra Spider

The Satellite caterpillar

Hoverfly

Box Tree Moth caterpillar

Dark edge Bee-fly

Sylvicola sp (2)

Crab apple

Carcina quercana

L-album Wainscot 3

Agriphila geniculea 6

Gypsy Moth 2021

Water Veneer Moth

Mystacides longicornis 4

Rose Chafer grubs

Ivy Bee

Box tree Moth

Red shanked Carder Bee 2

Red shanked Carder Bee

Yellow Slug 2

Yellow Slug

Irish Yellow Slug 2

Irish Yellow Slug

Metellina segmentata

Missing sector orb web Spider

Iberian Three band Slug

Harlequin Ladybirds hibernating.

Elephant Hawkmoth caterpillar threat display

Silver Y late specimen

Silver Y

Common Toad Flax Linaria vulgaris

Black-tailed Godwits summer plumage

B!ack- tailed Godwit in winter plumage

Figwort Weevil damage to Phygelius shrub

Slipper Limpet Crepidula fornicata 2

Slipper Limpet Crepidula fornicata

Sting Winkle Ocenebra erinacea(2)

Sting Winkle Ocenebra erinacea

Figwort Weevil grub and cocoons

Dor Beetle (Geotrupes stercorcarius)

Petty Spurge (Eurphobia peplus)

Winter Moth

Light Brown Apple Moth (female)

Red Slug Arion rufus

Red Bartsia (Odontites vernus) close up.

Red Bartsia (Odontites vernus)

Box Bug

Slime Mould (Reticularia lycoperdon)

Puccinia smyrnii on Alexanders (underside of leaf)

Puccinia smyrnii on Alexanders (Top of leaf)

Puccinia smyrnii on Alexanders

Shore below the sea wall

Small White caterpillar

Nursery Web Spider - Pisaura mirabilis

Ant with Wasps Head

Harwich Shore towards Stone Pier

Fossil Sharks teeth

Harwich Shore

Feeding frenzy at Hopping Bridge

Pintail (Anas acuta)

Figwort Weevil - Cionus scrophulariae

Parasitised caterpillar

Puss Moth Caterpillar

Sea Milkwort Lysimmachia maritima aka Glaux maritima 2

Sea Milkwort Lysimmachia maritima aka Glaux maritima

Stag Beetle female 2

Rambur's Pied Shieldbug (Tritomegas sexmaculatus) 2

Rambur's Pied Shieldbug (Tritomegas sexmaculatus)

Nettle Tap Moth Anthophila fabriciana 2

Tree Bumblebee 2

Tree Bumblebee

Nettle Tap Moth Anthophila fabriciana

New Garden Bee 2

New Garden Bee

Nettle Tap Moth

Bee on Ragwort

Oxford Ragwort

Sea Holly on dunes

Sea Holly 3

Large Red Damselfly (Pyrrhosoma nymphula)

Bedraggled

Deceased caterpillar

Oxalis acetosella Wood Sorrel

Wood Sorrel Oxalis acetosella

Turtle Dove (Streptopelia turtur)

Naze undercliff Crag Walk

Marsh Marigold Caltha palustris

Marsh Marigold

Hairy Bittercress Cardamine hirsuta

Grey Squirrel Sciurus carolinensis

Gilschrochilus hortensis

Brown Rat Rattus norvegicus

Naze undercliff Grag Walk looking south

Naze cliffs shore scoured by easterlies

The Walls reedbed

Caterpillar of Angle Shades Moth

Not quite Spring

Egyptian Goose (Alopochen aegyptiacus)

Common mussel Mytilus edulis

2 Common Mussel Mytilus edulis

Common Orange Lichen on Elder

Cushion Bracket on Blackthorn

Cushion Bracket (Phellinus pomaceus)

Black-headed Gull

Money Spider

Fiedfare (Turdus pilaris)

White Bryony Bryonia cretica flower close up

White Bryony Bryonia cretica

Vapourer 2 males with a female

Vapourer eggs

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False Angels Wing (Petricolaria pholadiformis)

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plantation 3

plantation 2

Looking north into the plantation from Highwoods

Alexanders taking over

Skinners Wall

Wigeon

Salicornia Autumn Colours

Cream spot Tiger Caterpillar 2

Cream spot Tiger caterpillar

Taking the waters at Hopping Bridge

The Walls with saltings

The Walls the highway

The Walls showing reedbed

Peppered Moth caterpillar

The Walls from Skinners Wall TM104320

Unknown caterpillar

White-lipped Snail - Cepaea hortensis

Common Whelk - Buccinum undatum- Egg case

Melanchra persicariae caterpillar brown form

Melanchra persicariae Caterpillar green form

Rosemary Beetle with deformed elytra

Red Admiral on orange

Freeloader Fly Desmometopa

Rove Beetle 2

Rove Beetle

Hedgehog feeds in garden every night

Garden Spider with prey

Freeloader Flies Desmometopa on spider prey

Garden Spider

Fishing rights dispute Little Egrets

Square-spot Rustic - Xestia xanthographa

Garden Snail (Helix aspersa)

Araniella cucurbitina

Enoplognatha ovata 3

Enoplognatha ovata 2

Enoplognatha ovata 1

Araniella cucurbitina 3

Araniella cucurbitina 2

Araniella cucurbitina 1

Poplar Hawk-moth (caterpillar)

Wind power

Philodromus cespitum 2

Philodromus cespitum 1

Amblyptilia acanthadactyla (On geranium)

Hedgehog (Night Visitor)

Hoverfly Xanthogramma pedissequum

Bee Moth (Aphomia sociella)

7-Spot freshly emerged from pupa

Coccinella 7-punctata pupa

Eupodes corollae

Empty pupa case

Newly emerged hoverfly

Eupodes corollae pupa

Blackbird

Narcissus Fly (Merodon equestris)

Dog Rose

Volucella bombylans

Gastrophysa viridula

22-Spot Ladybird with missing spots

Lily Beetle (Fully grown grub)

Red-tipped Flower Beetle (Malachius bipustulatus)

Unclothed Lily Beetle Grub

Grub of Lily Beetle clothed in own excreta

Common Lizard

Red-Headed Cardinal Beetle (Pyrochroa serraticornis)

Weevil (Lioploeus tassulatus)

Scarce Footman Caterpillar

7-Spot Ladybird with Dinocampus chrysalis

Bee 2

Bee 1

Nomada marshamella (Marshams Nomad Bee)

Wild Sstrawberry

Elm Leaf Ballon Gall 1

Alexanders

Pine Ladybirds

10 Spot Ladybird

Hairy-footed Flower bee

Walnut Orb-weaver Spider

Nuctenea umbratica

Lesser celendine

Taxus baccata

Exochomus quadripustulatus

Pine Ladybird (underside)

Pine Ladybird

Petasites fragrans

Eupeodes luniger

Ladybirds sunning

Pine Ladybirds mating 23 Feb 2012

Early Moth on windowsill

Hedera helix

Late 7-Spot Ladybirds

Empty Harlequin pupa cases on sycamore leaf

Kindney Spot Ladybird (underside)

Kidney Spot Ladybird

Cernuel vitgata 3

Cernuel vitgata 2

Cernuel vitgata

Snail site photograph

7-Spots sunning on ivy

Rosemary Beetle larva

16-Spot Ladybirds sunning with 7-Spot

Head of Sargus bipunctatus

Sargus bipunctatus In a window

Sea Holly

Dock Bug on Dead Nettle

Treble bar

Rosemary Beetle

Hoverfly Sphaerophoria scripta

Steadoda bipunctata

Adonis' Ladybird 2

Adonis' Ladybird

Wolf Spider female with egg sac

7-Spot Ladybird

Forest Bug (pair mating)

Red Admiral

Large red damselsfly pair mating

14 Spot

Spear Thistle with fasciation

Deformed Thistle (fasciation)

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