Shipley Park Ecology Trip

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Shipley Park Ecology Trip
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Pond Dipping

• We collected specimens from the water using a
  net. Then we put it in a white tray and scanned
  for creatures.

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Leech

• A leech lives on stones in the stream.
• It eats other pond animals blood
• Its has adaptations to help it to stick to rocks
  so It doesn't get washed down the stream . It
  also has brown camouflage.

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Water boatman

• Water boatmen have a grayish, elongated, oval
  body, 3 to 12 mm (0.13 to 0.5 in) long. They have
  a conical beak and a broad head with large eyes.
  Adults have short, flattened front legs long,
  slender middle legs and oar like hind legs
  fringed with fine hairs that aid in swimming.

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Water snail

• This large aquatic snail has a tall-spire, brown
  shell the animal itself is grayish brown.
• Omnivore will take many forms of organic
  material - plants, detritus, carrion it is also
  predatory on other snails, insects, and even
  small fish and newts!

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Leaf Identification

• Using a botanical key we looked at different
  leafs shapes and categorized them

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Oak

• Pedunculate Oak, Common Oak, English Oak. Irish
  Dair (Family - Fiancée)
• Description Large deciduous tree and probably
  our commonest tree. Height 30 - 40 m. Age 1000
  year or more.

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Hawthorn

• May, Whitethorn Irish Sceach geal (family -
  Rosaceae)
• Description Deciduous tree dense leaved and
  thorny with short trunk. Commonly used for stock
  proof hedging. New shoots and leaves are reddish.
  Distinctive white blossom with strong scent and
  red berries (haws) later. Height 10 - 15m. Age
  long lived - 250 years

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Ash

• Irish Fuinnseog (Family - Oleaceae)
• Description Magnificent large deciduous tree
  with distinctive black buds in spring. Can be
  coppiced. Height 45m. Age up to 200 years.

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Tree Beating

• We Shook small branches for bugs and then
  identified them using a key we got

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Money Spider

• There is a huge number of different species of
  'money' spiders, this being one of the largest
  and very common. It is found on all sorts of
  vegetation from longish grass to high on trees.

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Yellow beetle

• It is very common, feeding in a very wide variety
  of flowers, especially yellow species, from
  spring to late autumn, and may descend in huge
  numbers on yellow items of clothing or washing
  hung out to dry!

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Ant

• One of the commonest and most widely distributed
  ants, the small black ant is very common in
  almost all gardens, nesting under stones, paving
  slabs or taking over the nests of meadow ants
  amongst grass.

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Thanks to

• www.britishtrees.co.uk
• www.plantpress.com/wildlife/
• For the information and to
• www.google.co.uk
• For the images.