There’s something very relaxing about watching a bee busying about its work on a warm summer’s day… the gentle buzz as it meanders from bloom to bloom. However, there’s more at play here than just gar

Adrian Thomas looks to the skies for three special birds that you may see over your garden or might even attract into your space to breed

early bumblebee and the four carder bumblebee species have medium-length tongues and feed from thistles, comfrey, flowering currants and alliums. Meanwhile, the short-tongued bees, such as the solitar

Mimicry is where one species evolves to look like another. Animals evolve to mimic others in two main ways and they can be classed as either ‘honest’ or ‘dishonest’ mimics. In honest mimicry, two or m

Organic gardening helps predators such as ladybirds, which ...

An ecosystem evolves across thousands of years, a biological interaction that is both intricate and fragile. The arrival of a new species can disrupt the balance, as we have seen in Britain with grey