Insects — Nature Around Me

Don’t over trim your holly bush

December 21, 2011 by admin Leave a Comment

It’s an age-old tradition – using fresh holly branches to adorn your table and give your home a festive look – but conservationists are warning that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Plants Tagged With: Blackbirds, Bu, Christmassy, Cold This Winter, Cold Weather, Conservationists, Female Trees, Finches, Holly Berries, Holly Bush, Holly Holly, Holly Plant, Insects, Leaf Litter, Mammals, Mistle, Number Of Birds, Rspb, Rspb Images, Slow Worms, Time Of Year, Toads, Winter Holly

Sparrows get drive-through food

July 26, 2010 by admin Leave a Comment

Sparrows in an East Cumbrian town have found a unique way of finding food. Cars arriving at the Co-Operative store in Kirkby Stephen are given a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Birds, Featured, wildlife Tagged With: Assortments, Beaks, Bird Population, Birds, Bugs, Car Driver, Car Park, Cars, Co Operative, cumbria, Cumbrian, Dozen Birds, Finding Food, Flies, Food Cars, Food Groups, Food Outlet, Insects, Kirkby Stephen, New Cars, Paintwork, Ready Meals, Scraps, Seeds, Shopping, Sparrow, Sparrows, Wheel

Exmoor Hedge Funds

February 16, 2010 by admin Leave a Comment

Cash prizes of up to £200 are up for grabs in the 2009/10 Exmoor Hedge Competition. The competition has a junior class for people up to 25 years of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Cash Prizes, Competition Entries, Exmoor National Park, Gov Uk, Grabs, Hedge Funds, Hedges, Insects, Landowners, National Park Boundary, Nationalpark, Prize Money, Proof Features, Quality Work, Small Mammals, Steeper, Stems, Tara Wright, Traditional Style, Wildlife Value

Swans in the City

February 5, 2010 by admin Leave a Comment

Recent bad weather and frozen waterways have brought animals away from their normal habitats and into the built up areas where we live, in the hunt … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Birds, Featured Tagged With: Bad Weather, Box Lid, Cats And Dogs, Dustbins, Feral Cats, Fishing Line, Foxes, Fresh Water, Frogs, Frozen Roads, Grit, Habitats, Household Rubbish, Householder, Insects, Lancaster Canal, Male Swan, Metal Cans, Place Food, Plastics, Salt Water, Small Fish, Stomachs, Swans, Vegetation, Waterway, Waterways

Bumble Bees Need You!

March 6, 2009 by admin Leave a Comment

With spring in the air, it will soon be time for the queen Bumble Bees to emerge from hibernation. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Insects Tagged With: 5km, Brilliant Website, Bumble Bee, Bumble Bees, Conservation Trust, Crisis Point, Endangered List, First Rays, Fun Things, hedgerows, Insects, Intensive Farming, Lavender, Pesticides, Pollination, Queen Bees, Raspberries, Spring In The Air, Spring Sunshine, Wild Flowers, Youngsters