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This is the larva of a sawfly, one of the larger ones in the genus Abia, probably Abia sericea, the Orange-horned Scabious Sawfly, whose larva feeds on Field Scabious and Devil'sbit Scabious. Beautiful insect. Your side view shows very clearly the large number of prolegs that sawfly larvae have - th...

Many thanks Lynne.
Nigel

All our different habitat management activities are carried out through our Community Interest Company, EuCAN - www.eucan.org.uk . We charge users for the services of our volunteer groups in Dorset and Somerset and also undertake a number of different management contracts. In addition, we sell firew...

Does anyone have experience of the scarifier/de-thatcher attachment for the BCS selfpropelled machines? Our group (EuCAN CIC) in Dorset/Somerset is building up a collection of tools for managing the relatively small areas of grassland that we work on. So far we have a BCS flail mower ( which is exce...