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their metabolism until next spring. Unfortunately, in the process of dying off the workers make one last attempt to satisfy their sweet tooth, and this is why they start paying close attention to cream teas and iced buns. It's no use me telling you to stop waving

on. Then today I found the large bone, obviously the remains of someone's Sunday roast, dumped under the bench up there. Squatters?Fox sightings have been down this last couple of years, and even the plaintive screaming in early spring seems to have

of pollen and nectar cake laid in by their mother, and have developed into adults, they delay final emergence until spring. It is then the males that emerge first, often several days before females from the same nest. They then wait about until the females

through to adulthood in late May or June. Then she will have help to protect, feed and increase the nest.All too often, a promising start to spring is suddenly reversed by a bout of poor weather in May. This can cause fatal setbacks to the queen wasp

changes around the edge of global warming that are, perhaps, a more insidious threat. Bumblebees are well-adapted to cool climates, and they can happily overwinter under feet of snow, but the limiting factor on their spring foraging, during the all

slightly irritated when I read one of the kids' story books, in which someone discovers a frog or toad in the garden and their subsequent quest to find a suitable aquatic home for its release. Amphibians only go into water to breed in spring. Most