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Ivy

By Kate Bradbury on 16/09/2011 14:07:19

flower and patches of bare wall, I think about the ivy growing on the canal down the road. It's just coming into flower now, and is buzzing with the last of this year's hoverflies, bees and butterflies. Ivy would be a great choice for my garden - it


Wildlife-friendly plants

By Gardeners' World on 20/10/2011 13:40:38

- all of which are rich in nectar, and are particularly attractive to hoverflies and lacewings whose larvae, in turn, eat aphids.Stinging nettles are essential food for the caterpillars of butterflies such as red admirals, tortoiseshells and peacocks


Making a stumpery

By Kate Bradbury on 11/01/2013 18:17:00

in the garden, providing food and shelter for huge numbers of invertebrates including wood-boring beetles, solitary bees and woodlice. It can come in many forms: a tree stump left to rot into itself can provide a rot hole for the larvae of Eristalis hoverflies


Cockchafers

By Richard Jones on 05/06/2013 09:59:46

been a perfectly ordinary word used in everyday language, rather than having the suggestive innuendo it has acquired today.At the end of my garden BioBlitz I’d found several species of hoverfly, ground beetle, ant and leafhopper. A large, but rather


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