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maltatoday | SUNDAY • 13 MARCH 2022 11 ALMANAC Nature Notebook 804. Green Lacewing MALTA is tiny and jam-packed with people. What areas we haven't built we turned into farmland, with very little space left for nature. For this reason, most of our fauna is small, and one such ephemeral beauty is the green lacewing, a tiny green ant-like insect. This crea- ture's pièce de résistance are its rather large wings: completely trans- parent but with this intricate, lace-like mesh of veins. Lacewings (M. insett tal-bizzilla) are largely nocturnal, which makes them even harder to spot. They visit flowers to feed on pollen and nectar, but their young have a very different diet: they are voracious aphid pred- ators! And that of course places lacewings firmly in the farmer's and gardener's good books. Victor Falzon, Desirée Falzon www.birdlifemalta.org Green idea of the week 693: To find out more and to register your interest please follow this link: www.foemalta.org/yeahevent Join our new Youth hub ! To all young people aged 25 and under: Grab your friends and join us at Malta's new youth hub to chill with your friends and hangout with other likeminded people. This is a recurring youth hub for young people. Pop along every Thursday 17:00-20:00 at our Friends of the Earth office in Flori- ana. Join us for the next get-together on March 18th. We're looking forward to seeing you there! Visit Friends of the Earth's website for more information about our work, as well as information about how to join us. You can also support us by sending us a donation – www.foemalta.org/donate Don't miss this Pre War Cars Show Start date: 1 May Place: Mellieha Parish Square Societa Filarmonica La Vittoria of Mellieha, in collaboration with motorsmt, is organising the 1st ever Pre War Cars Show in Aid of Puttinu Cares. Give nature a voice. Become a BirdLife member Earth Day Green Fair Start date: 23 April Place: The Veg Box at The Farmoury A community two-day event bringing together music, art, food, wellness, green innovations, social enterprises, sustainable businesses and climate action related activities presented by various affiliated organisations and NGOs. Plan on starting early for a fun-filled day at Earth Day Green Fair at The Veg Box in Manikata, on Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 April, from 12pm to 6pm. Admission is free, A GOOD WEEK Good Week/Bad Week A BAD WEEK A an old Harry Potter book bought for 50p from a charity shop has sold for £15,500 in a hard-fought auction. The first edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is one of just 500 copies from the first run in 1997. A Welsh orchestra has dropped music by Russian composer Tchaikovsky from a concert because of the Ukraine war. Cardiff Philharmonic Orchestra said it would be "inappropriate at this time" to perform the composer's music after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. An anonymous collector in the US was the lucky bidder in the end. Instead, it will perform works by John Williams, Dvorak and Elgar.