Gardening for Bumbeless- A Practical Guide to Creating a Paradise for Pollinators By Dave Goulson As with his other popular books, Professor Dave Goulson has this canny knack of using his vast academic experience, mixing it with practical experiences and then...
Hedgehog enters garden using a Hedgehog Highway then walks the plank! Hedgehog Highways absolutely work and the more of them we can create the more likelihood hedgehogs will be seen alive in your garden and not dead in the road. Those concrete gravel boards may make...
Heriades truncorum The Large-headed Resin Bee An interesting new addition to the bees using a Nurturing Nature observation nest box was recently found and photographed by Dr Hauke Koch at Kew Gardens. This time it is Stelis breviuscula a cleptoparasite of Heriades...
Ectemnius solitary wasps Although there are several species of Ectemnius solitary wasps in the UK, I think probably the ones in the film are male Ectemnius continuus. which according to Jeremy Early, are very similar in appearance is E. rupicola. This species...
What is the vestibular cell in a Red mason bee nest? In the photograph below you will see all but one cell (red star) has what is called a vestibulum, (pl. vestibuli). This is the outermost cell within a nesting cavity and is usually an empty cell, with no provisions,...
The mud cells inside a Red mason bee nest are very hard. Many people know that Red mason bee females seal their cells with mud to protect their offspring from potential harm and to keep the internal cell environment conducive to the success of its contents. The mud...
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