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. Within a year I've had frogs and toads in the pond along with many invertebrates such as pond skaters and water boatmen. I also had a dragonfly visit recently. The soil type can be immaterial as you can line throughout and place different soil on top

, who was there in a supervisory capacity. In the end I had to leave alone, as this chap or chapette's tail started to rise, which I seem to believe means I am annoyed with you. I've never been stung by a dragonfly, but I reckon it would hurt a bit

they will pupate from now until May, when it turns into a very pretty moth. I imagine that the recent cyclonic weather has an effect on local wildlife. Butterflies and dragonflies will avoid flight while we have gusty wind and showers. Who can blame them

with butterflies lady birds and dragonflies they are all so welcome to my garden. Reply to Mandy 1963The small tortoiseshell is one of only five UK butterflies to regularly hibernate as adults (peacock, comma, brimstone and red admiral are others

coming through the garden. I've also had giant dragonflys in the garden last summer. There is an abundant of wildife in and around the garden and I do my best to encourage them. The only things that really do my make me mad are slugs!! now they are a

days gone by? It seems to remedy everything from Fox whiff & those nasty wasps & ants to troublsome Italian vine & Verginia creeper. I don't know!!! Reply to Dragonfly: You really must not use chemicals for jobs they are not approved for

and damsel and dragonflies flitting about; you're going to get hours of enjoyment!!!!

there are lots of things living there. Rats & mice are not to be encouraged close to human habitation - they belong out in the fields & I am with DragonflyBlue - curtains if they cross the threshhold.   Both rodents are highly destructive if permitted to venture

it easier to dig. Wildlife will find its own way fast enough, often water skaters, dragonflies, damsels arriving as the water is going in. There are often worries about introducing spawn from other ponds because they may be carrying disease, but I suspect

, thankyou We may find insects like horseflies and mosquitos a nuisance, but they play an important part in the food chain Swifts, martins and swallows eat mosquitos by the million and they're also food for bats, other birds, dragonflies and amphibians. Fish