Animalcouriers helps bring cicadas back to the UK after 30 years
We were recently asked to help with a thrilling project to bring cicadas back to the UK. These musical insects, Cicadetta montana, were last seen (and heard) in the UK some 30 years ago. Conservationists are hoping to re-establish their population in a project led by the Species Recovery Trust (SRT) and supported by Natural England. On the road with 11 cicadas Earlier this week, 11 female cicadas were captured in northern France by an entomologist. They were placed in a temperature-controlled cooler for their journey to the UK with Animalcouriers. There was a nail-biting moment when the HMRC [...]