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It seems like a kind of acceptance into the world of myriad species whose brief lives are going on all around me.

#Twig science free

It’s very exciting to allow them to have free time to explore the Twig website and then discuss what they’ve learnt.' Kimberley Gillingham, Head of Science, Pembridge Hall, United Kingdom 'Twig films instigate discussion and that’s a really important. Welcome to Twig Science Reporter This site uses cookies. Twig sparks classroom discussions 'Great discussions come after watching Twig’s films. But perhaps it will be this, watching hoverflies investigate my pear core, or the spider spinning a silken thread from the grass on to my knee. Twig Science Reporter is a weekly science news service for your K5 classroom. What will be the highlight of this summer? There was a time when it might have been finding rare species in grander locations.

It provides scaffolding for webs spun by spiders that abseil between its culms on near-invisible threads, apparently walking on air. Its stiff straw, once used for weaving lightweight straw hats for days such as this, makes it unpalatable to sheep. The tallest grass around me is crested dog’s tail. The ants are rarely seen on the surface but are, even now, in subterranean tunnels beneath me, farming honeydew secreted by aphids that feed on grass root sap.

But the chimney sweepers – geometrid moths with sooty wings tipped with a dash of white – settle to lay eggs on flowers of pignut, a short, lacy umbellifer growing among grasses, clover and hawkweeds.Ī couple of metres away, down the slope, lie hummocks of meadow ant nests, smothered in tiny flowers of white heath bedstraw and pale blue heath speedwell. They are passing through, rarely at rest. It’s the season for plain chocolate-coloured ringlet butterflies, and meadow browns with milk chocolate wings and a flash of orange.

The calcareous grassland of this ancient wood pasture is fascinating.