Gardening for butterflies and moths

with Butterfly Conservation I joined in a Zoom last night with Helen Hutchings Cox and Butterfly Conservation for a webinar … More

Dung beetles

promoting soil heath and biodiversity Our British dung beetles are perhaps the unsung heroes of the suite of ecosystem engineers … More

There’s a really large broad-leaved dock (Rumex obtusifolius) in our front garden which has been growing for the last couple … More

European hornets in a bird box Last year, we had Great Tits nesting in our bird box, and despite some … More

I’m still amazed that I can see species that are new to me, even though I have been watching the … More

We lived in Dorset for a few years when I was younger, and I remember Sunday afternoon walks in the … More

Writing about finding, and then painting a picture of, a puss moth caterpillar.