Woodland Wendy

21/10/2020

Some 'messiness' in our yard is important to sustain our birds in the winter. And luckily we see more homeowners becoming aware of the value of leaves, seed heads and native berry- and nut plants. Let's try to convince our landscapers to offer us help to prepare our yard for the winter rather than than offering only, the often so damaging, 'Fall Clean Up' service.

19/10/2020

The BIG Hedgehog map helps us to understand where hedgehogs are in the UK and where they are missing from. There is no need to log multiple hedgehogs in your garden, or to do so every night, but please continue to log each month/year if it’s the same location so that we can see if […]

18/10/2020

Now the hedgehog has been listed as vulnerable to extinction in the UK, we are calling on the Government to move hedgehogs to schedule 5 of the Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981 to allow them greater protection.

17/06/2020

04/05/2020

BHPS spokesperson Hugh Warwick - aka - has given hedgehog talks all over the country to hundreds of audiences. In this time of social distancing he…

23/04/2020

Mrs. Elsdon makes a Dragon Stick Puppet to celebrate St. George's Day. All the makes we do use items you may already have available in your house or garden. ...

14/04/2020

🐝Wasps🐝

Love them or hate them, wasps play a vital role in our ecosystem. They are natural pest controllers and a friend to any gardener.

Did you know that in the UK alone, there are over 7000 species of wasps, some solitary and some social.

They come in different sizes, colour and pattern, but the two commonest species in our garden are the typical yellow and black wasps, these are the Common Wasp (Vespula vulgaris) and the German Wasp (Vespula germanica).

Here is our simple guide on how to identify them both (remember they do sting so be careful!) If you manage to get a decent picture of one in the garden you may be able to tell if it is one of these, or indeed another.

Tag us in your photos!

You can download this sheet for FREE and print to A4 by downloading from our resources page found here: www.discoverthewild.co.uk/resources

Wishing you all happy health in the meantime.

Discover the Wild

14/04/2020

🌳 Lots of these big fluffy bumbles around just now 🤩 what types of 🐝🐝 have you spotted?? 🌳

10/04/2020

🐞🐞🐞Go out and look for Ladybirds there are so many about at the moment. 🐞🐞🐞