Help with Wildlife

Ain’t these two cute little bugs on my garden! I have to say keep my surrounds as natural as possible. Help these cute bugs with a place called their hone.

If you have only a roof terrace or balcony and no room for trees or climbers, grow a mixture of flowering plants (with single flowers rather than double) to provide a source of nectar for insects such as butterflies, moths and bees. You could also fill a shallow dish with water to make a bird bath, attach a lightweight bird feeder to a window or fix a nesting box to a wall at least two metres off the ground — numbers of sparrows have dropped dramatically in some areas in the UK and providing nest boxes may help to halt their decline.

Researchers have found that, as far as insects and invertebrates are concerned, small gardens are just as good for wildlife as larger ones. In a survey of biodiversity in 61 private gardens ranging in size from 32-94Osq m (344-1O,000sq ft) in the city of Sheffield in the UK, the researchers caught and counted an astonishing 40,000 individual invertebrates, and found nationally rare beetles, bugs, snails and flies, and a spider that had only previously been recorded on a mountain top.

Gardens make a vital network of wildlife habitats in major cities. In London, for example, 20 per-cent of all open space is occupied by private gardens.

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