UK earthworms commonly associated with worm composting
All my articles, videos and work are funded by my teaching and sales of award winning bumblebee nest boxes, solitary bee boxes, and wormeries. A few species of UK earthworms, many used rightly and in some cases wrongly for composting purposes! Dendrodrilus rubidus...
Bumblebees, butterflies, birds & hoverflies all love the dandelion….
Dandelions for wildlife Dandelions provide for many different bee species, hoverflies, butterflies, moths, their larvae, beetles and birds. They tell you the time, were used to make an old drink from medieval times, dandelion and burdock. a dark fizzy drink and now...
Kenyan farmers used honey bees to scare elephants. Elephants? Buzz off!!!
When bored with TV, I surf the net for areas of interest and thought some of you may find this of interest too..!! 15 July 2011 Last updated at 16:41 All my articles, videos and work are funded by my teaching and sales of award winning bumblebee nest boxes, solitary...
Waste Buster wormery at Banks Road Primary School
Banks Road School now has its very own 'Worm Hotel', supplied by Garston Rotters Community Composting. George Pilkington, an expert on worms, came into school last year to teach Year 4 how to look after them. The children will have to keep the worms fed and watered...
Nurturing Nature in Liverpool allotment, teaching school pupils about vegetables
All my articles, videos and work are funded by my teaching and sales of award winning bumblebee nest boxes, solitary bee boxes, and wormeries. Children from Year 3 have been taking part in the "Little Dibbers" project run by the local community organisation Arch and...
Bumblebee roundabout at Warrington – the best I’ve seen!
Bumblebee roundabout The future bumblebee and wildflower traffic island, looks a little tired and depressed at the moment! As most of them do! But that need not be the case..... This roundabout was a typical boring green grassed roundabout. I approached my local...
Bumblebee lawn-the best I’ve seen!
All my articles, videos and work are funded by my teaching and sales of award winning bumblebee nest boxes, solitary bee boxes, and wormeries. I have been watching the progress of this lawn for some time. To many people a lawn is a lawn. It has to be mown and...
Bumblebee life cycle, kids video
A bumblebee's life cycle video aimed at children, that also gets the message across to us adults! It explains the complete bumblebee life cycle and is a nice animated overview of a complex issue. Although, in reality bumblebee queens lives are fraught with many...
Champion Eco warriors from Bewsey Lodge Primary
All my articles, videos and work are funded by my teaching and sales of award winning bumblebee nest boxes, solitary bee boxes, and wormeries. Primary schools in climate change triumph 2:30pm Wednesday 1st June 2011 I was delighted to be asked by Warrington Borough...
Honey bee and wasp – battle to the death
All my articles, videos and work are funded by my teaching and sales of award winning bumblebee nest boxes, solitary bee boxes, and wormeries. The honey bee is busy collecting nectar to return to her hive which would be used to make honey and feed the young honey bee...