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pretty impressive, certainly the biggest wildlife I've ever seen in any garden. They didn't seem to do too much damage to the annuals, but left plenty of droppings which had to be cleared up before our neighbours could play croquet later in the day

of the annual migration back to their birth ponds. I’m fairly lucky in that, although my back garden is not ever so large, it is part of a large block of gardens where hedges and fences are tatty enough to allow these beasts fairly easy passage.We have a pond

of London on June 8th 1869. Large quantities of Dutch bulbs were annually purchased by him for that garden, and I have scarcely any doubt but that the species was imported about that time; since then it has become abundant in districts where the bulbs

is that the well-drained substrate (usually including crushed brick and concrete) produces a sparse vegetation of mainly annual wildflowers, and areas of bare ground that rapidly warm up in the sun. This favours the warmth-loving insects that elsewhere in Britain