Today’s school trip to
Saltholme nature reserve involved mini-beasts, not the class of five and six
year-olds on the minibus, who were well behaved throughout, but the small
creatures they netted either from the hedgerows or the pond, the study of which
increased my knowledge of spiders, bugs, beetles, blood worms, damsel-fly
larvae, water boatmen and pond skaters from little to still not very much;
however the techniques learnt came in useful tonight as the cats were leaping
around the living-room after a moth, enabling me to effect a capture and safe
release back into the wild (the moth not the cats).
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