I think they're eating plenty @Big Blue Sky - just not when you're watching... The seemingly permanent web I have on the kitchen window is always full of stuff. Must be a very fat spider Lovely pix @Guernsey Donkey2 - we get lots of buff tailed bees. They love the Verb. bonariensis and Liatris.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Will the birds eat sawfly larvae? Have just come in from the garden and found hundreds of sawfly larvae chomping and decimating one of my Corylus Avellana hedging plants. have picked off all I can see and put out for the birds, but not sure if they eat them?
Birds do eat them @floralies, but it may depend how big an infestation you have and how many birds are available quickly enough to help. Took some pix on Monday and Tuesday when the weather was favourable - little shield bug having a rest
and some hoverflies and bees were enjoying the sun
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I just saw this guy from across the garden. It was stuck out like a bright green sore thumb on one of the dead hanging basket plants. It's an eyed hawkmoth caterpillar and apparently eats apple leaves so it must have fallen out of one of the trees. I made sure to put him back safe.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I put all the sawfly larvae in a dish and left it out for the birds. They all seem to have been eaten, only one or two left on the leaves so picking them off as i find them. One branch is decimated but next years buds are fine.
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The seemingly permanent web I have on the kitchen window is always full of stuff. Must be a very fat spider
Lovely pix @Guernsey Donkey2 - we get lots of buff tailed bees. They love the Verb. bonariensis and Liatris.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Took some pix on Monday and Tuesday when the weather was favourable - little shield bug having a rest
and some hoverflies and bees were enjoying the sun
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Clems are great for them
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...