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kilometres away, and is now breeding in the area. The specimen is now in the proud ownership of Moon Class at the school.

's-foot, Yorkshire fog and false brome, so some of the unkempt back gardens in the neighbourhood probably have breeding colonies.Speckled woods are often difficult to sex at a distance, and small tortoiseshells are impossible, but there is a neat trick to tell males

of the word.It's relatively simple to breed new pinks so, over the years, many variations have emerged. Singles, doubles, spotted, lace-edged, miniatures and some that are a combination of all these and look a bit like tumble-dried rosy lapdogs. One

with chives, they'll provide welcome pollen to adult hoverflies. My hope is that hoverflies are attracted to my garden to breed, laying their eggs on surrounding fruit trees and crops. Eggs hatch into larvae with a good appetite for eating aphids and pests, so

.Plant breeders are busy working hard on this 'Holy Grail' of tomato breeding, trying to develop new varieties with disease resistance to blight. Until they do a combination of cultural and chemical control is all we have available.That won't stop me sowing a

song thrush to feed.My garden, like many others, provides ideal breeding conditions for snails, but this isn't actually the main reason I garden. So if I do come across snails I do dispose of them, although I hasten to add that I never use pellets

breed, but Magic (my black poodle) sounds ferocious, even if she would only try and lick you to death should you get close!I haven't investigated where I stand on the insurance front, and whether tools in my shed are covered, or whether the insurance

, you find your breeding ground has gone.Can these jobs not be done in late-summer, when the birds have fledged, before creatures settle down to hibernate?The pond in the park has been drained again this year, only this time I phoned the council. It didn

of narcissi and allied plants are grown and the larvae have caused serious damage."He then went on to enthuse about breeding times, colour forms and the insect's inexorable spread through England. Nowadays he would have to get straight on to the plant health

that breeds in the smelly stagnant water you find in flooded rot holes in large trees where branches have fallen off. It also likes nutrient-rich ditches, (especially near farm manure heaps), stinking sulphurous woodland pools full of rotting fallen leaves