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July is the month where the diversity of life is at its most evident. Many animals and plants have already completed their first breeding cycle and the Crane flora is steadily changing.
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Anita and Keith Martin (borsuk) > Oak Bush-crickets emerge in July and are perhaps just as likely to be found on the walls of a house whose windows are kept open overnight than on the foliage along the Crane.
Anita and Keith Martin (borsuk) > Great Willowherb is a waterside plant that can be found in July by the edge of the Crane or, as in this case, the Duke of Northumberland's River.
Anita and Keith Martin (borsuk) > The Red Campion season is pretty much over by July. This plant still manages to hold its elegance as it starts to die back in the summer sunshine.
Anita and Keith Martin (borsuk) > Insects abound in July and there are few more eyecatching than this aptly named Scorpion fly, Panorpa germanica. The fierce looking abdomen is all show and no substance, so there is no need for alarm.
Anita and Keith Martin (borsuk) > Horse-radish is a wayside plant that grows in the Crane Valley. In July this plant is easy to find along the roadside verges of Mereway Nature Park, where its healthy population is almost certainly related to the former allotment use of this site.
Anita and Keith Martin (borsuk) > A soldier beetle (rhagonycha fulva) springs from a head of cow parsley and takes to the air.
Anita and Keith Martin (borsuk) > One of the most unusal common flowers in the Crane Valley is the Tansy. These umbrella bouquets are not going to open much further as the Tansy has a very tight flower.
Anita and Keith Martin (borsuk) > This is not a decaying spider's web but is in fact the seed of Goatsbeard, one of the tallest "dandelions" growing in the Crane Valley. Goatsbeard can be found in July in areas of rank grassland, where it stands taller and more erect than the commoner Dandelion.
Anita and Keith Martin (borsuk) > The black tips of the antennae are all that identifies this small butterfly as an Essex Skipper, as it rests in a meadow in Mereway Nature Park.
Oak Bush-crickets emerge in July and are perhaps just as likely to be found on the walls of a house whose windows are kept open overnight than on the foliage along the Crane.
 > Oak Bush-crickets emerge in July and are perhaps just as likely to be found on the walls of a house whose windows are kept open overnight than on the foliage along the Crane.
Oak Bush-crickets emerge in July and are perhaps just as likely to be found on the walls of a house whose windows are kept open overnight than on the foliage along the Crane.
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