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Meles meles L.1758 (Badger)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos
Meles meles Diggings 26 April 1986 North Wiltshire England 2
Meles meles Sighting 27 August 1970 East Sussex England 1
Meles meles Sighting 26 August 1968 Surrey England 1

Suggested Literature

General Works

Bovine TB: The Independent Scientific Group on Cattle TB: http://www.defra.gov.uk/animalh/tb/isg/index.htm Web Site/Page

Meles meles may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
ANIMALIA
(animals)
CHORDATA
(vertebrates)
MAMMALIA
(mammals)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Meles meles is associated with:

Photos Bombus - bumble bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) is predator of nest Prys-Jones, O.E. & Corbet, S.A., 1987
Photos adult Timarcha tenebricosa - Bloody-nosed Beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) adult is predator of adult UK/Ireland Cox, M.L., 2007

Associated with Meles meles:

Photos is ectoparasitised by imago Lipoptena cervi - Deer-ked Or Deer Fly (Diptera: Hippoboscidae) UK/Ireland Rare Hutson, A.M., 1984

Meles meles may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

ANIMALIA
(animals)
CHORDATA
(vertebrates)
MAMMALIA
(mammals)
CARNIVORA
(carnivores)

References

Cox, M.L., 2007 Atlas of the Seed and Leaf Beetles of Britain and Ireland
Hutson, A.M., 1984 Keds, Flat-Flies and Bat-Flies (Diptera: Hippoboscidae and Nycteribiidae)
Prys-Jones, O.E. & Corbet, S.A., 1987 Bumblebees

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