Next week The One Show is featuring some of our less well-loved wildlife... bugs. To celebrate these creepy crawlies over the next week on Nature UK we've lined up loads of info that might make you change your mind about them or confirm your worst fears.
For starters here are some clips from the archive that show just how amazing, weird and downright disgusting bug behaviour can be.
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We've been looking through your emails, blog comments and discussions on our photo group to find out what strange and interesting things you've been noticing this summer. With a little help from our expert friends here are a few explanations...
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Editor's note: While Jeremy's away researcher Ella Davies takes a look through your spectacular landscape photos.
This week we've been highlighting our changing landscape from the future of national parks to managing rare habitats.
We've been discussing favourite views with the Nature UK Summerwatch flickr group too and have picked out some of your best photos for a celebration of the UK's striking scenery.
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Editor's note: Whilst Jeremy is away here is researcher Emma Brennand discussing the future of nature reserves in the UK.
The UK's natural landscape is an intricate patchwork of woodlands, grasslands, wetlands and heathlands. Left to their own devices, they would eventually revert back to woodland. Lichen-rich forests and wildflower meadows may appear to be untouched wilderness but it's human land management that made them or maintains them.
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To celebrate the natural beauty of our living landscape we'll be bringing you loads of info on how our landscape has been created.
For starters here are some timelapse clips from the archive that shows how nature works on a slightly longer time frame.
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Editor's note: Whilst Jeremy is away here is researcher Emma Brennand with the fun fin quiz answers.
Wow you really know your marine mammals. Well done Nicola Main and Wildlife Filmer Adam top marks. Maybe a little too easy for you, but I hope you enjoyed the pictures as much as we did.
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Editor's note: While Jeremy's away researcher Ella Davies provides a round up of your brilliant marine photos.
What better way to round off a fortnight celebrating our national marine treasures than a themed Friday Flickr favourites? Try saying that ten times fast!
You've obviously been having a brilliant time at the beach this summer so thanks to everyone that remembered their camera and added photos to our Summerwatch group. Here are the Nature UK team's coastal best picks.
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Guest blogger: Stephen Marsh is the Operations Manager for the British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR), the primary marine animal rescue organisation in the country. The BDMLR responds to call-outs from the general public, HM Coastguard, the police and the RSPCA.
Each year the BDMLR responds to over 400 call-outs ranging from entangled seals to stranded whale and dolphins.
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Did you try our seabird call quiz? Well done tootsietim, Katherine_Birkett and grebelet for getting pretty close. Here are the answers.
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Editor's note: Whilst Jeremy is away here is researcher Emma Brennand with a fun fin quiz.
We are heading out to sea this week for National Whale and Dolphin Watch week. To celebrate this week's ocean adventures, the
Seawatch Foundation are asking you to send them your photos of marine mammals as part of their
photo a fin project.
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Editor's note: Whilst Jeremy is away, researcher Emma Brennand explores the best UK snorkelling sites.
Snorkelling is a fantastic way to take a sneaky peek at the wildlife under the waves.
Just meters from your beach towel is a watery world that can be easy to explore.
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Editor's note: Whilst Jeremy is away, researcher Ella Davies gives you a teaser of the deep-water treats coming up next week.
After celebrating all the seaside has to offer we're heading further out next week to bring you tales and truths from the blue beyond.
It's also National Whale and Dolphin Watch Week from August 7th so to get you into the spirit here are a few gems from the BBC archive.
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Editor's note: Whilst Jeremy is away here is researcher Emma Brennand with the answers to the butterfly colour scheme quiz.
How did you get on with our
colour scheme quiz? Well done to Denice Stout, PoppyFlax, Jadelyn and Nicola Main it was a surprisingly tricky one.
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Editor's note: Jeremy's away so researcher Ella Davies presents some of the team's favourite summer photos.
We've got so many fantastic photos coming in to the Nature UK Summerwatch Flickr group we're making a regular feature of them. Every Friday the Nature UK team will be picking their favourites so without further ado here's our inaugural Friday Flickr favourites.
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What can the tide line tell us about the wildlife living under the seas? Emma Brennand visited Perranporth Beach to discover more.
Many of the plants and animals that wash up on our beaches have drifted for hundreds often thousands of miles from a place most of us will never visit. To delve into this dredged up world, I visited Perranporth Beach in Cornwall with Becky Seeley, Biological Records Officer at the Marine Biological Association.
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It's National Marine Week and to a nature lover what could be more evocative of the seaside than the sound of calling seabirds overhead?
But how well do you really know your seabirds? Can you tell the call of the gannet from that of the puffin, or the cry of the manx shearwater from the kittiwake's? Test your knowledge by identifying the common shoreline visitors from the sound clips below (in case you're wondering... none of the birds listed above are featured). If you get them all (or even if you don't) post your answers below.
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