There are several special types of content that have specific functionality and are described elsewhere (e.g. news, diary events). If you want to create a general purpose content page instead, select Content management > Create content on the menu. You are presented with a list of different types of content. The general purpose ones all start with Page and are followed by a numbering system where relevant. The numbering system reflects the number of columns for each row, for example Page 2 + 1 + 1 indicates a page… Read more

To create events in the diary, select Content management > Create content > Diary Event from the menu and fill in the fields as follows:

Title: fill in a brief title of the event.

Description: provide a full description of the event.

Display Date: fill in the date as you would like it displayed. This does not need to be a 'true' date, for example you could have a field trip with a display date of "Week beginning 17th June".

Sort Date: select the date of the event or the start of… Read more

If a part of the taxonomic hierarchy has been inadvertantly moved to the wrong place in the taxonomy (probably due to an incorrect import), then reimporting a single species from the incorrect branch should correct it as long as the imported species has the correct family & subfamily information and is imported into the correct content type (ants, bees or wasps). You can also do this manually. From the menu, select Content management > Taxonomy > List. Click the list terms link for the Taxonomic Hierarchy vocabulary. To make… Read more

This Andrena is a very widespread, spring-flying species. Females are very distinctive, with a bright, foxy-coloured covering of hairs on the thorax and a similarly-coloured tuft of hairs at the tip of the abdomen, which is otherwise almost completely hairless and shining black. In common with most other Andrena the males are much less distinctive. However, close examination with a hand lens will reveal a dark brown spot in the middle of the otherwise orange-brown hind tibia. The thorax in fresh examples is also covered in foxy-coloured hairs, but these are much less… Read more

This small, shining, reddish-yellow to brown ant is the only known European representative of its genus. It resembles Leptothorax and Temnothorax species, to which it is closely related. Females, and the wingless males, are worker-like in appearance, whilst individuals morphologically intermediate between females and workers also occur. Formicoxenus nitidulus is a ‘guest ant’, living only within the nest mounds of its ant hosts. These are usually ‘wood ants’ (Formica subgenus Formica sens. str.). Known hosts in Britain are F. aquilonia… Read more