A small group came out for this site in Sheppey on 24^th June. It is a planted woodland and amenity land adjacent to a housing estate. The large pond was nearly dry due to the heatwave, but provided an interesting location to observe courtship behaviour of some long-legged flies. Beyond the trees, the site changes into scrubland and some patches of meadow, in which we spotted a few orchids, various bumblebee species and numerous Cinnabar moths!

On 10^th June, a dozen or so members made the trip to this charming nature reserve in Thanet. It is a SSSI for the geology as well as being home to an astonishing diversity of orchids and various nesting bird species. The diversity of habitat types was interesting, with woodland, scrubland and chalk.

This site is always popular with KFC members, due to its beautiful chalk downland and the likelihood of spotting something unusual.

Over a dozen KFC members turned up to visit Berry Court Wood on the 12^th May. This is a privately owned site close to the controversial proposed Lodge Hill Development, and therefore likely to be affected by any large-scale housing in the area.

A large group of Club members were led around this Woodland Trust site on the 24th September by Martin Allison. Formerly ancient woodland, much of this was lost to planting for chestnut coppice and mixed conifers so it is designated as a planted ancient woodland site. The site was alive with invertebrates where the sun broke through the canopy along rides or in the recently coppiced areas. The large black and orange ichneumon wasp Heteropelma megarthrum, associated with coniferous woodland, kept just out of reach for a while but was captured for photographs eventually.