Gardening for wildlife
Join us at St Nicholas Park to celebrate Community Gardening Week and learn how you can make your garden more attractive to wildlife.
Join us at St Nicholas Park to celebrate Community Gardening Week and learn how you can make your garden more attractive to wildlife.
The best plants for bumblebees! Bees are important pollinating insects, but they are under threat. You can help them by planting bumblebee-friendly flowers.
Unsurprisingly, the garden bumblebee can be found in the garden, buzzing around flowers like foxgloves, cowslips and red clover. It is quite a large, scruffy-looking bee, with a white tail. It…
There are plenty of ways you can take action against climate change in your own backyard or local greenspace.
Go chemical-free in your garden to help wildlife! Here's how to prevent slugs and insects from eating your plants with wildlife-friendly methods.
This beautiful bumblebee favours upland areas, but has declined in recent decades and is now nationally scarce.
The Tree bumblebee is a new arrival to the UK. First recorded here in 2001, it is slowly spreading north. It prefers open woodland and garden habitats and can be found nesting in bird boxes and…
The Heath bumblebee is not only found on heathland, but also in gardens and parks. It nests in small colonies of less than 100 workers in all kinds of spots, such as old birds' nests, mossy…
Living up to its name, the red-tailed bumblebee is black with a big, red 'tail'.
One of our prettiest and smallest bumble bees, the early bumblebee has a bright orange tail and lemon-yellow bands on its body. It is very common and can be found in all kinds of habitats in early…