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couple of ducks were found in Ann Marie Powell's British Heart Foundation Garden and a frog was sat in the stream of the SKYShades Garden. When I arrived on Sunday, everything was buzzing with the sound of honey and bumblebees foraging on the variety

-cum-quay, the size of a single bed has been so enthusiastically decorated with plant containers that the table and chair are lost in herbage.Several hoverflies and bumblebees are visiting the flowers. Chaffinches and sparrows flit noisily through the climbers

bumblebee had been found at a London sewage works. It’s all very lovely, but I can’t help feeling that the setting of such events should be a little more romantic. The goldcrest was one of several moving through the shrubbery one Thursday rush-hour morning

. If plants are growing indoors, open windows to encourage bumblebees to pollinate the flowers.Pick fruits when they are still shiny - dull fruits suggest seeds have started to develop and the fruit is past its best.AdamFlowers can drop if conditions are too

queen buff-tailed bumblebee, was examining the compost heap; I guess she was searching out a suitable hibernation site. Every now and then something else would buzz past: rosemary leaf beetles, green shieldbugs and ladybirds were all very active

the missile. If it's a female it will ignore the stone and continue sunning itself. So confrontational are the males that they will also flap up to investigate other butterflies, bumblebees, birds and even passing aeroplanes.

together with wire or shoved into an open-ended canister of some sort and place this in a sunny position against a fence, wall or tree trunk.Solitary bees and wasps do not live in large colonies like bumblebees, honeybees and yellow-jackets (social wasps

(apart from a friendly pigeon), and I doubt there will be until I have grown sufficient foliage (and bought the all-important plum tree) for them to hide in. And it’s going to be a butterfly and bumblebee haven – full of single-flowered, nectar rich

Spring has sprung. All at once. The guinea pig and his hutch are back outside. Shieldbugs, in their purple-brown winter colours, are sunbathing on the fence. The first bumblebee of the year, a queen buff-tailed, floated past and a male feather

There's a park near me. It's a great place to escape the urban sprawl. There, I've spotted eight species of bumblebee (including a winter buff-tailed colony), plus honey, solitary and feather-footed bees. I've also seen butterflies, great spotted