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Boots on the Ground: Practical Conservation Volunteering Updates July 2025
With work parties running from Monday - Friday each week throughout the county, we are so grateful for all the support we get from our practical conservation volunteers. Read all about what they…
The drinker
This large, fluffy-looking moth is on the wing in July and August, but you might spot a caterpillar at almost any time of year.
Volunteer celebration
Lime hawk-moth
The lime hawk-moth is a large, night-flying moth that can be seen from May to July in gardens, parks and woods. It is buff-coloured, with green patches on its scalloped-edged wings.
Wall barley
The distinctive spiky, or 'bearded', green flower heads of wall barley appear from June to July and are easy to spot in an urban environment as they push their way up through pavements…
Horseshoe vetch
Horseshoe vetch is a member of the pea family, so displays bright yellow, pea-like flowers and seed pods. Look for this low-growing plant on chalk grasslands from May to July.
Buff-tip moth
It is so easy to miss this clever little moth. It is a master of disguise, blending in perfectly as it looks just like the twig of a birch tree! Flying only at night, the buff-tip moth can be seen…
Guildford Goes Wild
Go Wild in Guildford on the 15th July - and find out how you can be part of the solution to the climate and nature emergency
The Return of Beavers to Surrey
When I first started working for the Surrey Wildlife Trust back in 2013, I remember sitting in stunned silence when an officer from the Environment Agency suggested that one day beavers could be…
Lowland dry acid grassland
Sprinkled with diminutive, short-living flowers in spring and parched dry by July, this is a habitat of heathlands, coastal grasslands and ancient parkland.
Celebrating Surrey’s wild heathland landscape
Surrey Wildlife Trust and Thames Basin Heaths Partnership welcome local people to celebrate Surrey’s amazing wild heathland landscape during Heath Week 2018, from 29th July to 4th August 2018.