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pascuorum) and the garden bumblebee (Bombus hortorum), and white clover, lavender and the mountain cornflower (Centaurea montana) for smaller-tongued species like the buff-tailed bumblebee (Bombus terrestris). Providing a wide variety of flowers with long

the cliffs around Lulworth Cove, I saw marbled whites, common blues, fritillaries (I don't know which) and the Lulworth skipper.Butterflies have been enjoyed by enthusiasts for hundreds of years but this world was very new to me. It made me realise that, if I

This week a new type of lawn was born. The flower-rich, low-maintenance, wildlife-friendly sward was launched at a park in Kensington and Chelsea, after its creator, Lionel Smith, wanted to explore alternatives to the traditional grass monoculture

as the harlequin, and is orange with white spots. It has orange legs and its crocodile-like larva is yellow with black spots. It was once considered an indicator of ancient woodland, but is now expanding its range into habitats like London parks, where I found mine