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Wildlife on our site

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Date	Title
Oct 23 2009	Whitefly in my coffee These tiny moth like creatures arrive in their thousands every year and they seem to be everywhere! (Not sure that wildlife is exactly the correct term for whitefly but they have to go somewhere!)

Jul 18 2009	The Life Cycle of a Large White Butterfly So are all butterflies bad news on the plot? Here's the life story of one that is!

Feb 17 2009	The Common Earthworm Drainage improvers? In the sort of weather that we have been having earthworms will have their work cut out this year!

Nov 7 2008	Bees in Decline? There has been much in the news recently about fears that the bee population is in serious decline. Bee keepers comment that hives often resemble the Marie Celeste. Lord Rooker a minister from DEFRA has been reported as saying that the honey bee may become extinct within the next ten years. Soil Association's petition to Save the honey bee

Aug 12 2008	The Wasp August is a time when many fruits are ready for the picking. This year it seems that the wasps have managed to home in on the ripe fruits before we have meaning fruits have to be gathered with extreme caution!

Jun 1 2008	Frogs and Snails and Puppy Dogs Tails? So which are welcome garden visitors and which are not?

Nov 18 2007	Ladybirds - under threat? Our native ladybirds are under threat from foreign invaders.

Sep 25 2007	The Grey Squirrel So who has been stealing our hazel nuts?

Jun 30 2007	Lucky Newt! The star of our video had a lucky escape. It was spotted in the soil as my husband approached it with a rotavator.

Jun 7 2007	Marauding Wood Pigeons This year wood pigeons have waged war on our plots by devastating our brassica plants.

Apr 12 2007	Our Encounters with Sparrowhawks Seeing a bird of prey is always impressive. We have had a few close encounters with sparrowhawks.

Apr 1 2007	Wild Flowers on the Plot Wild flowers growing on derelict allotments plots.

Jan 6 2007	Slugs - enemy number 1? Are all slugs bad news in the garden or on the plot?

Nov 24 2006	Encouraging Blue Tits onto the Allotment Blue tits on the allotment or garden are helpful as they feed their young with thousands of caterpillars during the spring and summer. Encouraging blue tits expanded and updated to show how to make a nest box. Some extra video too.

Nov 21 2006	Toads in the compost When we spread out our compost heap we were surprised to uncover over two dozen toads. These were carefully rehoused under a pile of straw.

Oct 22 2006	A Partridge in the Green Manure This partridge was spotted on our plot resting among the green manure.

Oct 22 2006	Why make a log pile? As we had acquired a pile of sawn off tree stumps and branches on site, we decided to create a log pile under a large evergreen shrub

Jun 10 2006	Hedgehog Family A family of hedgehogs nesting in a pile of straw.