Lockdown is forcing recorders to look carefully at their own backyards - with beneficial results. More...

Just this week we've had two County firsts from recorders on their permitted daily exercise. Ann Smith recorded the ladybird Nephus quadrimaculatus in her local churchyard. Gavin Gamble recorded the ant Lasius brunneus on his local patch, a Nationally Notable A species recorded from less than 30 hectads in the UK. Neither of these species has ever been recorded before in Leicestershire and Rutland. Win! 

P.S. I was planning to do my annual Good Friday Grass post today but Geoffrey Hall beat me to it earlier this week in the NatureSpot Facebook Group!