Cornwall – Kettinki

2025-11-12 @ 16.37.37 ∈ In English

Shouting at seagulls could stop them stealing your food, research shows

Shouting at seagulls makes them more likely to leave your food alone, research shows. The paper, “Herring gulls respond to the acoustic properties of men’s voices,” is published in Biology Letters.

2025-07-13 @ 21.15.21 ∈ In English

Threatened Heath Fritillary Butterflies See Major Population Increase in England - EcoWatch

The population of heath fritillary butterflies, one of the rarest butterflies in the UK, is rising after a sunny spring and improved habitats.

2025-04-21 @ 14.00.16 ∈ In English

More ticks carry Lyme disease bacteria in pheasant-release areas, research shows

Researchers studied ticks in 25 woodland areas in South West England where pheasants are released—and 25 nearby control sites where no pheasants are released. They found that Borrelia spp.—the bacteria that can cause Lyme disease—was almost 2.5 times more common in ticks in the pheasant-release areas.

2024-01-18 @ 11.56.28 ∈ In English

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Butterflies could lose spots as climate warms

[New] study shows the eyespot variation is caused by thermal plasticity (the ability to react to changing temperatures) [instead of genetic polymorphism (the co-existence of multiple genetic forms in a single population)."