Carpenter Bees (From Africa) Now In UK - Birds Rearing Chicks In October

[hatrack]

1. Basking sharks in record numbers off west Scotland/Hebrides: Their zooplankton food is drawn north by the warmer waters. More than 300 seen in six months; normally found off Cornwall/ Devon.

2. European white storks, Darlington: a stork stayed in the area for four days. It is believed to be only the second bird of its type to appear there since the 1960s.

3. Stunning foliage: the Woodland Trust predicts a colourful autumn; catch the maples turning at Westonbirt Arboretum, Tetbury.

4. Conehead cricket, Cumbria: a rare insect and never before found this far north.

5. Primroses, Isle of Man: at least five months ahead of schedule, this September flowering is a sign of a spring plant truly confused by our increasingly warm climate.

6. Carpenter bee, Huddersfield: normally found in the Middle East and North Africa, this is the furthest north that the inch-long carpenter bee has been spotted.

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And many, many more at the link below.

http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=62377

[Mabus]

1. and the indicators of global warming continue

I wish more people would listen. The environment is the single most important issue to me. Without a planet that will sustain life all other issues are moot.

[kestrel91316]

2. This does not just dismay me. It TRULY FRIGHTENS me.

We are on the brink of an earth-changing global environmental catastrophe.

I think we have hit the tipping point.

:scared: :cry: