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.I'm surprised, though, to see little sign of wildlife at any of these flower pots - just a lone honeybee and a couple of pigeons.It is only down by the river's edge that I can see what I might call real wildlife in a garden. A tiny concrete balcony

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

.Making a bird box.Making a bee hotel.Installing a window bird feeder.Making a bat box.Making fat cakes for birds.Making a green roof for a bird table.Browse plants that are attractive to wildlifeView a variety of scented flowers

around your garden grazing on aphids and slugs. If you let full-sized hens into your borders then they will kick soil all over the shop and peck large holes in the emerging shoots of your most precious plants. Bantams are less destructive, but if the main

around the world, and released into the wild well outside of its original Asian homeland. This is because it is a very useful biocontrol agent, attacking the many non-native aphids and other plant lice that have themselves been moved about the globe

of wildlife down there. The Rye is a tad bigger than my back garden, so I can usually find something different.The first thing we see is a fox, loitering about the 'cat house'. As we reach the impenetrable front garden I can hear it walking about in the deep

Although autumn hangs heavier in the air with each day, it only takes a brief break in the clouds to bring shy wildlife back out into the open. So it was on Friday last week when I headed for the horticultural delights of North Woolwich. Here

drove over to see me because he'd seen these strange, rather-more-yellow-than-usual pupae, latched firmly on to garden plants and nettles.The ladybird has got to be the most widely identifiable insect in our gardens. Most people can recognise a ladybird

lesson:             What does a herbivore eat? Plants.              What does a carnivore eat? Anything it can get.After the harlequin ladybird first arrived in Essex five years ago, there was a great media hoo-hah about its potential to wreak ecological

's wearing flared trousers.Some UK web sites suggest that the Plant Health Department of the Food, Environment Research Agency (part of DEFRA) should be contacted if you find this bug, but it is now too well established to consider any attempts at confinement