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

By all appearances, Stacy Cronley-Dillon had it all: a successful career as a brand manager for major names like Pepsi and Britvic, a happy marriage, and the kind of driven energy that seemed unstoppa

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Make a simple box around 20cm deep, or cut the top off a plastic squash bottle and use the remaining bottom, applying masking tape to cover the sharp cut edge. Add a hole at the back to fix it to a sh