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pallid nymphs make the white frothy gobs of cuckoo spit as they feed by sucking plant sap. There are dozens of them. And not only are they hopping about on the sunny foliage, they’re busy having sex too. Perhaps this is a bit ambitious, given that they

americana. I hope I countered her worries that they would kill the plant. Although they're now very common in the London area, the rosemary, lavender and sage bushes they eat are so vigorous that I've never seen any serious defoliation. And they

or in the loft.Wandering back along the road to Pontoon Dock, the Docklands Light Railway station, I pause to look at a few plane trees planted in an equally bleak scheme along the pavement. We’re almost under the shadow of the railway viaduct here, so perhaps

-invertebrates. There was no dead standing timber to offer fungoid growth for rot-feeding beetles. And it cast no appreciable shade for the benefit of the children.On the other hand, the pond behind it was completely shaded and overshadowed. It was polluted by leaf and twig fall

clunking clockwork model of a beetle, it'll be feeding on the white or yellow bedstraws, drifts of which stain the surrounding fields.Sunday 8th Lizards are everywhere sunning themselves on walls and steps; everywhere we walk they are disturbed from

-important period of new nest foundation, is unpredictable wet and damp. The queens, still working alone before they have reared their first generation of workers, cannot get out to feed, or collect nectar and pollen for their brood, the subterranean nests