in contact with the soil and that should protect the worms. Do you notice bugs that look like wasps but Killing these hoverflies through using Harmless spend all their time hovering around flowers? insecticides on your flowers will just hoverflies are make your garden safer for fast These are hoverflies and they are one of our often breeding pests and will also kill best friends in the garden as they eat aphids and mistaken for ladybirds and lacewings. other small pests. They usually start out as wasps and wriggly things in water and then turn into the killed. wasp or bee mimics we see. They can’t sting at all but they want predators to think they can. They need open faced flowers with really short tubes to the nectar. Find out more Did you know hedgehogs were roaming the earth long before humans? There is not one cause for this but we can Hedgehogs are insect eaters, Again, an over-tidy garden, every hedgehogs Hedgehogs help. They need big areas to look for food, although they appreciate cat corner strimmed and mown, with are at least the size of a football pitch, and one biscuits or dog food left out immaculate fencing and pesticides is disappearing of the reasons for their decline is not being for them. the worst for hedgehogs. Another as fast as able to get from garden to garden so when big danger is power garden tools tigers! building a fence make certain it has spaces particularly strimmers so think hedgehog if using one. for hedgehogs to get through. Also they need safe places to sleep, have their babies . and hibernate. Learn more If you are putting up a new Bats have legal protection. If you bats Bats get a Bats are used to living close to humans and building incorporate special have bats ask the Bat Conservation have shared our buildings for many years. bad press - bat bricks which give bats a Trust or your council’s biodiversity However modern houses are built without horror films home without actually letting officer for advice before doing the nooks and crannies of older buildings etc. them into the loft space. anything that may disturb them in (and without the drafts) so it’s harder for They will any way. them to make a home. Roost boxes can never get also be put up on walls and in trees. A stuck in your single bat can eat 3,000 insects in a night and they can live for 40 years. If you have a
in contact with the soil and that should protect the worms. Harmless hoverflies are often mistaken for wasps and killed. Do you notice bugs that look like wasps but spend all their time hovering around flowers? These are hoverflies and they are one of our best friends in the garden as they eat aphids and other small pests. They usually start out as wriggly things in water and then turn into the wasp or bee mimics we see. They can’t sting at all but they want predators to think they can. They need open faced flowers with really short tubes to the nectar. Find out more Killing these hoverflies through using insecticides on your flowers will just make your garden safer for fast breeding pests and will also kill ladybirds and lacewings. Did you know hedgehogs were roaming the earth long before humans? hedgehogs Hedgehogs are disappearing as fast as tigers! There is not one cause for this but we can help. They need big areas to look for food, at least the size of a football pitch, and one of the reasons for their decline is not being able to get from garden to garden so when building a fence make certain it has spaces for hedgehogs to get through. Also they need safe places to sleep, have their babies and hibernate. Learn more . Hedgehogs are insect eaters, although they appreciate cat biscuits or dog food left out for them. Again, an over-tidy garden, every corner strimmed and mown, with immaculate fencing and pesticides is the worst for hedgehogs. Another big danger is power garden tools particularly strimmers so think hedgehog if using one. bats Bats get a bad press - horror films etc. They will never get stuck in your Bats are used to living close to humans and have shared our buildings for many years. However modern houses are built without the nooks and crannies of older buildings (and without the drafts) so it’s harder for them to make a home. Roost boxes can also be put up on walls and in trees. A single bat can eat 3,000 insects in a night and they can live for 40 years. If you have a If you are putting up a new building incorporate special bat bricks which give bats a home without actually letting them into the loft space. Bats have legal protection. If you have bats ask the Bat Conservation Trust or your council’s biodiversity officer for advice before doing anything that may disturb them in any way.
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