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cathhodsman.bsky.social
Did u know? Organic veg' growing is fun....& you get to make so many new friends. #wildlifegardening #wildlifefriendlygardening #wildlifefriendlygarden #organicgardener #nopestcides 🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🌍🪲🐙🐌
September 29, 2026 at 5:13 AM
davidsmithartist.bsky.social
How many reasons do you need to love Primroses? My favourite flower.
#Spring #Primrose #WildlifeFriendlyGarden
March 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
davidsmithartist.bsky.social
This beautiful little hoverfly visited the garden today. I did buy a book on hoverflies but promised not to get sucked in, but I had to check this stunner out. I think it's Xanthogramma pedissequum
#WildlifeFriendlyGarden #Hoverfly #Syrphidae #Diptera #Flies #Insect
Smart black and yellow Hoverfly sitting on a small pale flower against an out-of-focus pale green background.
May 26, 2025 at 7:59 PM
davidsmithartist.bsky.social
This Hairy-footed Flower Bee, Anthophora plumipes, is enjoying feeding on the Red Dead Nettle we have left to grow under the perennial kale, where it's been gathering pollen to stock its nest.
#WildlifeFriendlyGarden #Insects #SolitaryBees
May 3, 2025 at 7:51 AM
davidsmithartist.bsky.social
The neighbouring box we put up seems to have House Sparrows, so I hope the Swifts don't mind noisy neighbours. #Swifts #WildlifeFriendlyGarden
May 28, 2025 at 8:54 PM
davidsmithartist.bsky.social
Sound on for fledgling Swifts! After waiting 4 years and lots of guessing and hoping, one of our nest boxes has been used to rear two chicks who fledged this morning! Until we saw them today we weren't even sure there were chicks, so we're delighted!
#Swift #WildlifeFriendlyGarden #RedList
July 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
lasdstudio.bsky.social
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#gardenforwildlife #biodiversitygarden #wildlifefriendlygarden #pollinatorgarden #nativeplants #greeninfrastructure #sustainablegardens #urbanbiodiversity #natureatwork
December 26, 2025 at 11:25 AM
davidsmithartist.bsky.social
I'm so pleased we left a large patch of Red Dead Nettle beneath the kale as it has attracted Moss Carder Bees, Anthidium manicatum. #WildlifeFriendlyGarden #SolitaryBees #Bees #Pollinators
May 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
plantoholic24.bsky.social
Blue tit enjoying the free food on this cold, frosty day. #Bluetit #bird #garden #wildlifegarden ##wildlifefriendlygarden #winteriscoming
November 18, 2024 at 5:28 PM
davidsmithartist.bsky.social
It only takes a little bit of sunshine and warmth to get the pollinators moving. Hoverflies and meat flies are important pollinators, and play vital roles in our ecology.
#TrueFlies #Hoverflies #Insects #Diptera #WildlifeFriendlyGarden #NoPesticides #NoChemicals
Brown hoverfly feeding on white Sweet Box flowers with glossy green leaves behind. Fly feeding on nectar from white Sweet Box flowers.
February 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
davidsmithartist.bsky.social
I thought I saw one yesterday: today I had a chance to see him clearly. A male Early Bumblebee, Bombus pratorum, feeding on the thyme flowers.
#WildlifeFriendlyGarden #Bombus #bees #Bumblebee
May 19, 2025 at 3:45 PM
davidsmithartist.bsky.social
Wonderful to find a couple of Lacewings this morning. These used to be common when I was a child, and even 30 years ago they were quite abundant, but now each one I see gives me surprise and joy.
#WildlifeFriendlyGarden #MoreThanHuman #insects
Lime green insect with four translucent wings folded back towards and past its abdomen. It has dark red button eyes and long slender antennae.
March 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
davidsmithartist.bsky.social
A Buff-tailed Bumblebee, Bombus terrestris, patrolled the garden regularly today visiting every Lungwort in flower, drinking deep and long, gathering masses of pollen. #WildlifeFriendlyGarden
February 14, 2026 at 5:29 PM
davidsmithartist.bsky.social
The Cavallo Nero has gone to seed. We will continue to pick leaves and flowers to eat until we need the ground for new crops. Meantime this Common Carder Bee, Bombus pascuorum, seems to be pleased with her share! #WildlifeFriendlyGarden #NoDig #NoChemicals #NoPesticides #Organic #NoInsecticides
April 7, 2025 at 8:28 PM
davidsmithartist.bsky.social
Been to the river this morning to do our Riverfly sampling for @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social Pleased to see lots of Cased Caddisflies (shown) as well as great numbers of Flat-bodied and Olives. Large numbers of small, young Bullheads too.
#wildlifefriendlygarden #CitizenScience #river #invertebrates
May 26, 2025 at 11:20 AM
davidsmithartist.bsky.social
Female Hairy-footed Flower Bee, Anthophora plumipes, about this afternoon. I was too slow to catch her feeding on the Primroses, but she slowed down a little for the Pulmonaria.
#SolitaryBees #hymenoptera #WildlifeFriendlyGarden
March 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
davidsmithartist.bsky.social
Not what I expected to see in our new solitary bee nest provision! I think it might be a male Crossocerus vagabundus, Wandering Boxhead Wasp, but I'd really appreciate any help as my wasp ID skills are very poor.
#wasp #SolitaryWasp #Hymenoptera #WildlifeFriendlyGarden #BeeHotel
May 7, 2025 at 4:58 PM
davidsmithartist.bsky.social
I've not even finished the new solitary bee nest provision, and it's getting quite a bit of attention!
#WildlifeFriendlyGarden #bees #SolitaryBees
Close up of a small bee on the end of a log with holes drilled in it
April 8, 2025 at 1:26 PM
davidsmithartist.bsky.social
Well into Bee Fly season. This is Bombilius major, a Dark-edged Bee Fly. I saw a couple mating on the wing today: very strange looking.
#WildlifeFriendlyGarden #flies #Diptera #Insects
March 28, 2025 at 4:21 PM
davidsmithartist.bsky.social
First Dark-edged Bee-fly, Bombylius major, of the Spring here. Warmed itself in the sun on that spot for ages.
#WildlifeFriendlyGarden #flies
Slightly ginger, hairy insect with a long pointed proboscis. It's two wings have an irregular dark band on the leading edge.
March 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
davidsmithartist.bsky.social
A Snipe Fly dropped by while I was planting out some beans. I have no idea of its scientific binomial, and I'm trying not to let my brain go chasing an ID, as I'm supposed to be focusing on solitary bees! Maybe someone would care to enlighten me?
#insect #flies #WildlifeFriendlyGarden
May 19, 2025 at 6:01 PM
davidsmithartist.bsky.social
Here's a Ruby-tailed Wasp that was hanging around the solitary bee nesting facility. I guess it's probably Chrysis ignita, but no doubt someone will correct me if not.
#CuckooWasp #SolitaryWasp #Insects #Hymenoptera #WildlifeFriendlyGarden
May 19, 2025 at 5:58 PM
davidsmithartist.bsky.social
Common Carder Bee, Bombus pascuorum, has to be one of the prettiest of our bumblebees. They do the lions share of pollination on our tomatoes and other vegetables.
#WildlifeFriendlyGarden #NoDig #NoInsecticides #NoChemicals #organic #OrganicGarden
Close up of Carder Bee feeding from a lilac-coloured Pulmonaria flower. The bee has a dark head with some yellowish-orange tufts of hair; a thorax covered in orange and cream hairs; its abdomen isn't visible.
March 29, 2025 at 6:51 PM
lizzoom.bsky.social
First time we've spotted a hedgehog in the garden for years! So chuffed. #WildlifeFriendlyGarden
June 24, 2025 at 9:16 PM
davidsmithartist.bsky.social
Last night, after drinking the birds' water, the snails trashed the borlotti beans. #WildlifeFriendlyGarden
June 12, 2025 at 1:36 PM