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We found a sleeping hedgehog outside our classroom! We decided it was not safe there and discussed hibernation. We put it carefully in a tray of leaves and moved it to our Forest School area and covered it in leaves to keep it safe.

My 2 sons and I were rock hopping round the shore between Parton and Whitehaven and came across what we instinctively called a sea slug. Excited to find a new creature we stopped for a good look. Size about 6-7cm, oval shaped, big skirt, leopard spot coloured, good camouflage on the rocky shore, on the lower intertidal zone, soft but tough body without any shell. A marine biologist contact I am lucky to have identified it as a sea lemon. They only live for a year and are common in the UK on rocky shores.

We've found lots of woodlice under logs and in leaf litter at Sydenham Hill Wood recently including the common shiny, the common striped and even what we believe to be pygmy woodlice :O Woodlice are not actually insects but in fact crustaceans and are related to shrimps and crabs! They play an important part in the nutrient-recycling system and eat leaves, rotting wood and even their own faeces but they don't pee, instead they release ammonia as a gas through their shells

Did you know that millipedes can live from 1 to 10 years depending on the species?