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Spider eggs and Christmas crackers

By Richard Jones on 23/12/2009 08:02:50

It's cold, there's snow on the ground, and all is quiet in the garden. But I've just been outside feeding the wildlife. In my case that does not mean putting up nut-filled bird feeders or hanging fat balls, it means tipping the kitchen waste


The juniper shieldbug

By Richard Jones on 01/02/2013 12:55:51

’s cypress, but also sometimes on Leylandii. There are several other previously juniper-feeding bugs now found on these garden hedging plants, but this is the prettiest.I’m not suggesting that cypresses should be preserved for their special food-plant status


Wireworms

By Richard Jones on 18/02/2009 15:48:08

with anyone growing plants for their roots or tubers. Most species, though, are dead wood feeders, and they include lots of very rare species, which only occur in old woodlands, ancient hedgerows and other important wildlife habitats. Their larvae feed


Shieldbugs

By Richard Jones on 04/03/2009 08:10:29

.Its English name is the gorse shieldbug, and far from attacking garden plants, it focuses its attention on gorse. As far as I know there is no gorse anywhere in gardens hereabouts, but there's a small broom at the front of our house. It will also feed on other


Insects on roses

By Richard Jones on 03/12/2008 10:01:09

It rained on Sunday, so what better way to spend the day than planting roses? Well, I went and played Power Rangers in the bushes in Dulwich Park with 3-year-old, while my partner did the planting. She'd ordered them at Chelsea, and we'd almost


What's nibbling my Lilies?

By Richard Jones on 11/07/2007 10:57:49

. It feeds on a wide number of native wild plant species so it's unlikely to become a nuisance, just another brightly-coloured insect to decorate the garden. I'd certainly be interested to hear whether anyone else has seen this critter in their own gardens.


Harlequin ladybirds

By Richard Jones on 28/10/2009 14:40:57

and grass, and it is here that I think they have been living all summer. Like many insects, once feeding is complete they deliberately move away from the food source to find a suitable place to pupate. There are, perhaps, two different reasons for this


Distinctive angles

By Richard Jones on 06/09/2007 18:09:49

, pinks and yellowy greens.The nondescript green or brown caterpillar feeds on a huge range of native and cultivated plants, but it's usually very secretive and never a pest. It was sitting in its distinctive pose: head down body slightly raised with its


Japanese knotweed

By Richard Jones on 19/08/2009 11:07:22

to feed on Fallopia. The hope is that it will have the same effect here, controlling Fallopia, as the Mexican moth Cactoblastis had when it was deliberately introduced to Australia to combat the insidious weed spread of prickly pear cactus, originally from


Out of danger

By Richard Jones on 28/11/2007 10:12:02

of Box Hill, in Surrey.Although box, Buxus sempervirens, is widely planted in gardens, Box Hill is one of the few places in Britain (along with Boxted in Kent) where it is thought to be a true native. Gonocerus had been found there, on and off, for about


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