Comments for the Natureheads blog http://natureheads.wordpress.com nature notes, pictures and more... Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:30:39 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Harlequin Ladybird invasion – nature or nurture? by The aliens take many forms « the Natureheads blog http://natureheads.wordpress.com/2009/06/30/harlequin-ladybird-uk-invasion/#comment-360 The aliens take many forms « the Natureheads blog Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:30:39 +0000 http://natureheads.wordpress.com/?p=891#comment-360 [...] was black with red spots, but the Harlequin Ladybird comes in many [...] [...] was black with red spots, but the Harlequin Ladybird comes in many [...]

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]]> Comment on Rack Marsh gets an Owl Box by natureheads http://natureheads.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/rack-marsh-gets-an-owl-box/#comment-348 natureheads Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:13:59 +0000 http://natureheads.wordpress.com/?p=1091#comment-348 Look out for this story at Newbury Weekly News http://www.newburytoday.co.uk/ and listen out for it on Newbury Sound. http://www.newburysound.co.uk Look out for this story at Newbury Weekly News http://www.newburytoday.co.uk/ and listen out for it on Newbury Sound. http://www.newburysound.co.uk

]]> Comment on Write here! by Nicole Wetzold http://natureheads.wordpress.com/write-here/#comment-345 Nicole Wetzold Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:01:35 +0000 http://natureheads.wordpress.com/?page_id=19#comment-345 Hi - loved your site and blog! Thought you and your followers might be interested in BBC America's September programming block where we will be showcasing BBC Earth. Featuring five fascinating documentaries, this block takes viewers from atop the Himalayas with the grizzly bear, to inside the lion’s den with the help of state-of-the-art technology. Led by channel premieres of The Life of Mammals: A Winning Design, Gizzly: Nature’s Entrepreneur and Lion: Spy in the Den - all the documentaries are presented by multi-award winning and world renowned natural history expert, Sir David Attenborough. The BBC is the largest producer of natural history programming in the world, including the hugely successful Planet Earth. Its new global brand, BBC Earth, aims to highlight this incredible content across all platforms. The BBC Earth block airs this Sunday, September 20, from 3:00 pm ET to 8:00 pm ET on BBC AMERICA. We have created two videos that I think your readers would really like. Details, links and embed codes are below if you'd like to use them on your site. Please let me know if you need anything else. Cheers! Nicole Wetzold Director, Marketing BBC America Link to video http://www.bbcearth.com/earth-explorer/expeditionsinterview-w--neil-nightingale-and-others/ Code for embedding Link to video http://www.bbcearth.com/earth-explorer/preserveinterview-with-marth-holmes-and-others/ code for embedding Hi – loved your site and blog! Thought you and your followers might be interested in BBC America’s September programming block where we will be showcasing BBC Earth.

Featuring five fascinating documentaries, this block takes viewers from atop the Himalayas with the grizzly bear, to inside the lion’s den with the help of state-of-the-art technology. Led by channel premieres of The Life of Mammals: A Winning Design, Gizzly: Nature’s Entrepreneur and Lion: Spy in the Den – all the documentaries are presented by multi-award winning and world renowned natural history expert, Sir David Attenborough.

The BBC is the largest producer of natural history programming in the world, including the hugely successful Planet Earth. Its new global brand, BBC Earth, aims to highlight this incredible content across all platforms. The BBC Earth block airs this Sunday, September 20, from 3:00 pm ET to 8:00 pm ET on BBC AMERICA.

We have created two videos that I think your readers would really like. Details, links and embed codes are below if you’d like to use them on your site.

Please let me know if you need anything else.

Cheers!
Nicole Wetzold
Director, Marketing
BBC America

Link to video
http://www.bbcearth.com/earth-explorer/expeditionsinterview-w–neil-nightingale-and-others/

Code for embedding

Link to video
http://www.bbcearth.com/earth-explorer/preserveinterview-with-marth-holmes-and-others/

code for embedding

]]> Comment on Organism/month June 2009 – mystery beetle by natureheads http://natureheads.wordpress.com/2009/06/22/organismmonth-june-2008-mystery-beetle/#comment-237 natureheads Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:43:12 +0000 http://natureheads.wordpress.com/?p=881#comment-237 Got a fast answer from the Bug Forum on the Natural History Museum website www.nhm.ac.uk =================== Berks, UK. I photographed a very odd beetle, end of May 2009. Cryptic camouflage, but mainly black. Reminds me of a weevil in overall shape, but not like any I've seen before. V sturdy. That's the front, by the way! This beetle has a 'mask' on its head, as you can see. It's sat on my thumb, so you get an idea of scale. Perhaps 10mm - 15mm long approx, but I didn't measure it. On the video you get a much better idea of what it's like, and there is a glimpse of it's curiously patterned back end. ( www.youtube.com/watch?v=japostdIY2U ) posted by Natureheads 26 June, 2009 =================== primitive weevil, Platyrhinus resinosus posted by oxycera 27 June, 2009 =================== Thanks Oxycera! That was quick. =================== Got a fast answer from the Bug Forum on the Natural History Museum website http://www.nhm.ac.uk
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Berks, UK.
I photographed a very odd beetle, end of May 2009.
Cryptic camouflage, but mainly black. Reminds me of a weevil in overall shape, but not like any I’ve seen before. V sturdy.
That’s the front, by the way!

This beetle has a ‘mask’ on its head, as you can see. It’s sat on my thumb, so you get an idea of scale. Perhaps 10mm – 15mm long approx, but I didn’t measure it.

On the video you get a much better idea of what it’s like, and there is a glimpse of it’s curiously patterned back end.
( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=japostdIY2U )

posted by Natureheads 26 June, 2009
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primitive weevil, Platyrhinus resinosus

posted by oxycera 27 June, 2009
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Thanks Oxycera! That was quick.

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