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We couldn’t cut the grass paths because everywhere you looked there where tiny baby toads I had looked for frog & toad spawn but hadn’t found any, that was just before we found the lost pond. It had been lost for at least 30 years only visited 2x by 1 man in all that time. A lost
Every windfall Apple is full of wasps now and although it’s still August the early mornings are autumnal #1000postcards #biodiversity #wasps
@sambubbly windfall Apple just for you
@WhispersOfWild @B_Strawbridge @Kate_Bradbury It’s a wonderful leaf cutter bee
@sphaerularia @Kate_Bradbury They are just the best aren’t they
Sometimes I meet something in the garden & I just totally fall in love with it that’s what happened yesterday, which was the first time I had ever come across a #hairyshieldbug didn’t know they existed before then. It was hanging off a twig looking a bit worried #1000postcards
Have you ever wondered why some plants have hairs? Called Trichomes they can help reduce evaporation & insulate against frost wind & predators. #1000postcards #biodiversity #Trichomes #botanical #poppy
@SolitaryBeeWeek @FiftyBees I’m going to be painting bees all week 🐝
“Little fly thy summers play my thoughtless hand has brushed away am not I a fly like thee?or art not thou a man like me?for I dance &drink &sing till some blind hand shall brush my wing. #1000postcards #WilliamBlake #fly #biodiversity #ecology
@WildlifeMag I love moths I’m very partial to a muslin moth or a pepper moth or a peach blossom it’s hard to have a favourite they are the butterflies of the night