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St Cleer Environmental Group
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We are a community group for St Cleer Parish focusing on climate change/environmental issues. This is for local news, events, articles and for connecting to other like minded environmental groups. Web site: https://stcleerenvironmentalgroup.wordpress.com/
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This weekend - Free Open Farm Event, What 3 Words tenure.took.manly with lots of homemade cake. See a wonderful part of Cornwall you've never seen before. Find out about the work of the farm, and all about the native flowers + wildlife. #Cornwall #StCleer #UKWildlife #Biodiversity #Farming #GreenSky
Open Farm Event - Trethinnick Farm, St Cleer - Follow a self guided trail and enjoy 30 years of organic management with haymeadows, trees, galore and abundant wildlife. Learn about the 25 in 25 hedgerow trees project. No entry charge but lovely refreshments (homemade cake) in aid of St Cleer Environmental Group and their campaign to plant more trees in our parish hedgerows. Location: What 3 Words- tenure.took.manly
July 4, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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As part of the Open Farm Event at Trethinnick Farm, St Cleer, Cornwall on Sun 6th July, there's a guided wildflower walk at 3.00pm (self guided tours for rest of the afternoon with boards). Tickets are free but limited (max 20), get them here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/guided-wil...
Guided Wildflower Walk
Join us for a guided stroll looking at the local flora, where we talk about their folklore and medicinal uses, and the insects they support.
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June 20, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Two butterflies and two moths who checked in this week, while I was busy doing other things. First ringlet of the year, a white ermine moth, a small angle shades moth and a comma. #TeamMoth #Insects #Butterflies #Cornwall
First Ringlet of the year, 18/06/25, on a bramble leaf A white ermine moth that appeared on the doormat overnight, wasn’t in a great state but looked the part A small angle shades moth on the inside of the front door, a lively bugger who shot off seconds after this photo A comma who just had to upstage the first ringlet by looking briefly like a silver washed fritillary in flight. Lively bright oranges
June 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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We're delighted to announce a free entry Open Farm Event, with lots of homemade cake and goodies. See a wonderful part of Cornwall you've never seen before. Find out about the work of the farm, and all about the native flowers and wildlife. #Cornwall #StCleer #UKWildlife #Biodiversity #Farming
June 8, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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My continuing search for purple hairstreak caterpillars at Golitha Falls failed again, but found plenty of other interesting sights! 1/2 #biofluorescence #teammoth #naturesky @stcleerenvgroup.bsky.social @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social
Blue caterpillar under UV light on a red oak leaf. Camera doesn’t do the brightness of the blue justice. Some sort of crane fly in electric fluorescent blue, on red ivy leaves A rather dull clay blue caterpillar (because I couldn’t get the shot out of the shadow from my camera and hold the torch too) on red oak leaves . A green spider/tic(?) on red leaves
May 28, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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We are going to be in Looe on Saturday March 29th at the Looe town council Eco Event Day, giving a short talk on our recent projects. www.looetowncouncil.gov.uk/news/join-us... It looks really good day, if you're in the area come on down and say hello! #Liskeard #Looe #Cornwall #GreenSky
Join Us for the Eco Event at Millpool Centre! – Looe Town Council
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March 28, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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No it isn't moles. We're helping St Cleer church as part of Living churchyards create a wildflower meadow. Two years of cutting, raking + establishing yellow rattle, so far seeds have failed, so it's plug time. Devil's bit scabious, knapweed, clover + trefoil. Gambled on no frost. So far so good...
A cleared, and rake green bit of churchyard with no graves and a few small brown patches where the plugs have been inserted. There's already some late crocuses, primroses and celandines around the edges of one several gravestones and tombs in the background. Three Devil's bit scabious plugs, surrounded by small islets of compost amidst a sea of green.
March 25, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Our first bio-fluorescent walk, co-hosted with Natural England's Golitha Falls NNR team, was a great success, even if it was a bit early to see many invertebrates. We will be hoping to conduct some more later this year at the same location, so keep an eye out! #Cornwall #Wildlife #Biofluorescence
Two glowing green fungi on a purple background of moss and twigs Glowing orange embers of a bio fluorescent lichen on a dark green moss A slug on a leaf, each of its ridges glows a subtle pale green A psychedelic glob of purple, orange and blue, actually a dog toy under a fern.
March 23, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Saturday we were out planting trees (oak + beech) as part of our 25 in 25 project, where we aim to plant 25 trees in hedgerows on 25 farms in St Cleer Parish and maintain them over 3 years. Thanks to 2 farms agreeing to be pilots + Forest for Cornwall for the trees #TreePlanting #NatureSky #Cornwall
March 17, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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The first wood anemones are out at Rosecraddoc woods. Spring is becoming bolder. #wildflower #Cornwall
Three early wood aneomes out at the base of a mossy tree, drooping over, petals closed to give them a bell or pod shaped appearance. Sunlight breaks through the tree cover in the background to give a dappled effect.
March 14, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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The scarlet elf cups (or are they ruby elf cups - apparently very difficult to tell the difference?) are out again across St Cleer Parish. They thrive in damp patches (plenty of those around here) and in leaf litter. #fungi #fungifriends
Three bright red elf cups peer out amongst some old brambles, brown leaves and moss.
March 12, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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The first butterfly of 2025 I saw in St Cleer was a brimstone, which hurtled by, so excuse me if I use the photo of a male brimstone I spotted yesterday in Estover woods, Plymouth. Their bright colouring is thought to have inspired the name "butter-fly". @savebutterflies.bsky.social #Savebutterflies
A strikingly yellow male Brimstone butterfly amidst brown leaf litter and a sprig of pine.
March 6, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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St Cleer Parish covers much of the Southern part of Bodmin moor. Golitha Falls, just outside the parish (wrong side of the Fowey, in St Neot parish), is closer to St Cleer than St Neot. It's a patch of temperate rainforest, where we run events such as bat and UV light walks and a butterfly transect.
In the photograph you can see the River Fowey running over moss covered rocks and boulders with occasional sections of white water, the channel is overhung by some green moss lader branches. Golitha Falls are more a set of rapids than a true waterfall.
March 4, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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After last years abysmal year for butterflies, it's good to see we're off to a flying start!
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And we’re back! First butterflies of the year I’ve seen here in Cornwall, in St Cleer. First was too fast, the second, a small tortoiseshell lingered in the sun. Saw none on my transect last year so good to see them again! #SaveButterflies @savebutterflies.bsky.social #Cornwall
A vibrant small tortoiseshell that I’m guessing overwintered, sunbathing on some pennywort, moss and twigs.
March 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Hello, we're another refugee from X, the local environmental group for St Cleer #Cornwall #savebutterflies #mothsmatter #bees #righttoroam #treeplanting Hoping old X followers can find us: @chrisull.bsky.social @kateullman.bsky.social @kernowconservation.bsky.social @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social
A pair of bloody nosed beetles on an ivy leaf in St Cleer, one with a notable dent in their carapace, (this actually part of a cluster 10 or more on a street corner in St Cleer, that aren't in the photograph) taken on March 2nd 2025.
March 2, 2025 at 2:24 PM