May 12, 2021
27 flowers used by solitary bees for nectar and pollen Each one of the flowers is actually used by and in most cases, bees have been filmed actually foraging or has just finished foraging on it. All flowers were filmed in my garden, except for the parsnips growing on...
May 3, 2021
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...
Nov 14, 2020
Semaphore flies What a great name for these male flies with the semaphore-like courtship ritual. A little easier than their scientific name Poecilobothrus nobilitatus! They did remind me of the semaphore flag signals as used by the navy when signalling from one ship...
Sep 24, 2020
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...
Aug 22, 2020
Heriades truncorum, Large-headed resin bee, a specialist forager I have had many reports over the years, usually from areas down in the south-east, regarding these bees using my Nurturing Nature solitary bee observation nest box. BWARS states that this bee is...
Jul 23, 2020
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...
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