I have nothing against wasps – they cause me a degree of irritation that is irrelevant compared to the harm humans cause to the natural world and biodiversity.However there was something a ‘best served up cold’ feeling I had when I saw a wasp’ demise – dangling from the web of ‘my’ Garden spider (Araneus [...]
September’s butterflies on the butterfly bank have dwindled over the month since the end of the big butterfly count. The first week of September saw a few Meadow browns and Gatekeepers hang on and a solo Common blue graced the grassed for a moment (sadly this species has suffered a dramatic decline in 2011).
We were walking along the gravel path when we encountered the hairy caterpillar. At first I thought it was warming itself in the September sun but on closer inspection it had its ‘inners’ spilling out of one of its body. A sad hairy caterpillar.
The golden heads of the Boar’s throat crowned the poor soils of the brick works north of Conyer. The thistle is a much maligned plant yet their flowers are a bonus for pollinators and their grey seeds a feast for finches. And to many brownfields are seen by many as wastelands, even though they are [...]
It was just a garden bank besides the road. There was no hedge, just a tumbling sandy soil bank. And the Solitary bees had amassed to nest and breed.
The railway bank at Greenwich station has thrown up a few surprises in the last few weeks.
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