Bumblebee talk Burton & Rossett Horticultural Society by Nurturing Nature
Bumblebee Infogram - How do neonicotinoids affect bumblebees? When giving talks or presentations to people whom do not read academic papers for whatever reasons, then try (!) to translate them into everyday language so that non academics can understand can be rather...
Hoglets in my wildlife garden feeding
Noisey Hedgehog courtship ritual and hoglets! Hedgehogs have been visiting my garden since April. After having the opportunity to film 2 hedgehogs feeding together in late May, I was even more fortunate to go outside later and hear the courtship ritual and then saw...
Large Red damselfly using my new wildlife garden pond to oviposit-video
Large Red damselfly using my new wildlife garden pond to oviposit Wildlife gardening brings such pleasure and beauty into a wildlife garden, if you let it! This beautiful Large red damselfly? (Pyrrhosoma nymphula) took some time to lay her eggs inside the water mint...
Last of the Masons! Red Masons that is!
Last of the Red Masons! This has been the worst year for my Red Mason bees that I can remember. After a few emerging in April, cool daytime temperatures, cold nights, rain and that almost constant wind. All had played havoc with them. She has done well to survive...
Blackbirds and the punk chicks in my garden! video
Blackbird builds her nest in my wildlife garden and has chicks Wooden fence panels to me are boring and almost useless for garden wildlife. They are transformed and much more interesting when clad in ivy and honeysuckle. I watched as the male blackbird keep guard...
Why did the bumblebee workers go to the beech? For a drink of course!! video
Bumblebees workers feeding upon honeydew from aphids on beech leaves The noise is what attracted my attention as I walked down the road alongside a beech hedge. I heard a loud buzzing and I noticed that several species of bumblebees were flying in between the leaves...
Wren find insects after overnight frost in my wildlife garden
The tiny wren finds food amongst the primroses Its not very often you are lucky to see a wren so close up and feeding, especially after an overnight frost and in such an open piece of ground. This was filmed through my office window. Troglodytes, troglodytes, meaning...
Leafcutter bee larva killed by Coelioxys bee larva using mandible film
Which cleptoparasite killed the leafcutter bee larva? Around this particular nest box, used by leafcutter bees, I filmed 7 different solitary bee parasites. There are several suspects that killed the bee larva, though some can be eliminated from the investigation!...
Help farmland birds such as the skylark
New research to help farmland birds Why I have put a farmland birds appeal on my website. Having spent my childhood, youth and early adult days about 2 miles from Liverpool city centre, in a terraced house with a back yard, outside toilet, no bathroom and not a tree...
Easy to make DIY mosquito trap video
Homemade mosquito trap for home or garden. I have seen mosquito type larvae in my pond where I do have predators to keep them in check. I like to have a Plan 'B' though! This video embassies typical mistakes that can be made and therefore not make this trap as...