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and peered at the surrounding trees and bushes through our small cheap binoculars. It’s very much a waiting world out there. Hardly anything is moving and the various birds are huddled against the cold; like me they all seem to be thinking “come on, spring

guises of the harlequin. I met my first pine ladybird last spring, thanks to a heavy gust of wind blowing it out of a tree on to the pavement I was walking along, and I once found the larvae of tiny Scymnus frontalis (which somehow resembled Dougal

deep for mating frogs, and a touch on the shady side. Frogs tend to prefer mating in the shallows of ponds with a fair amount of sunlight, where the frogspawn can warm up quickly in the spring sunshine. The frogs local to my mum have always mated

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

little on the heavy side. Sue intends to put him on a strict exercise regime this spring.There were two hedgehogs that ran around their cage, and four underweight siblings who had been brought to Sue in December, having been found wondering around looking