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and small shrubs, and the birds were sitting on one of the tough child-resistant plants.They were oblivious to the excited line of boys and girls trotting past to class, but continued to explore the branches only a couple of metres from the children

. A colleague found it a couple of years later on the same garden shrub in Essex, but as far as I know this is the sum total of its known occurrences here. Curiously this was almost exactly the same time that the now widespread berberis sawfly arrived

-nesting bees and wasps (I'll drill ready-made nest holes for them). I'm slightly surprised that there is no action "prevent ponds from becoming overshadowed by nearby trees and shrubs" on the website. I've always taken this as one of the cardinal rules of pond