It’s important we encourage bees, because both main types – the honey and the bumble bee – are under threat from different things. The honey bee is affected by disease and parasites such... Читать далее
Bamboo is a very invasive plant. It was brought here in the nineteenth century from Asia and it’s an opportunistic plant. Some species are spreaders, some are clumpers. The clumpers are... Читать далее
Sadly, there’s nothing you can do about it. Even if you pay for a pest control company to remove the foxes, another one will come in quite quickly. We have urban foxes because they were... Читать далее
They’re fantastically useful insects for all but a few weeks at the end of summer. They are carnivores. They hunt down and kill other insects, such as gardener’s pests, like aphids (and... Читать далее
The false widow probably arrived here as part of some trading or plant activity, and it was originally a native to Madeira and the Canary Islands. The first UK sighting was in Torquay. I... Читать далее