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Blackbirds are nesting for second year at my garden. I can see the nest inside the ivy but its well situated. Mr Blackbird is omnipresent with mouthfuls of grubs, Mrs Blackbird makes random appearances to stretch her legs. how lovely she looks very proud

late coming into leaf after the long winter, but the leaves are now fluttering about happily.  All the titmouse family seem very fond of this tree, eating the early buds, and presumaby the many insects and grubs that live around it.   Gently scrape a

-proof I'm told), a very sticky glue card plus a specific phermone capsule. This sex pheromone provides the lure to attract male moths to an untimely end, hopefully before they've done the deed with any female moths. No mating...no eggs...no grubs inside

I don't really do birds. I'm usually too busy peering down at insects on flowers or running across leaves. Or I'm on hands and knees, bum in the air, turning stones over looking for ground beetles or grubbing at plant roots for weevils

starlings feeding on the lawn, not from any food I'd scattered, but simply pecking away searching for worms and grubs. And a blackbird whose youngster fledged from a nest in my ivy this week has also found the lawn a useful source of food.The drought during

completely dead. However the tree is throwing out new growth from lower down, is there a chance that if they lop off the top of the tree it might recover? It's likely that the trunk was already dying before woodpeckers started hunting for grubs in the rotten

it has 'ceased to be'.   Hi, that looks like a Crane Fly, (Daddy Long Legs) quite short lived so may well have expired.  They live just long enough to lay their eggs in the soil so their grubs can eat the roots of your lawn  etc . I don't like them

and watered it.It had a few little white grubs that looked like woodlouse larvae?? so the birds had them and now it's sitting resting until planting out time. I think half the fun is watching your plants grow Bookertoo.Couldn't afford mature trees even if i

rust-coloured bees sound like mining bees, Andrena fulva or Osmia rufa. These 'solitary' bees make individual small tunnel nests in the soil, which they stock with nectar and pollen for their grubs. Although they work individually, each female making

disease which kills woody plants - especially those that are otherwise under stress. Sadly, the only option is to grub up the plants and burn them. To check whether it is honey fungus you should look in the soil for the black 'boot laces' or rhizomorphs