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🐗 CURMUDGEONS' CORNER 8 - room for the peeved and cantankerous too🐗

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  • debs64debs64 Posts: 5,184
    When my youngest daughter started gardening I insisted she send me a photo of any critter she spotted. I would then identify it as helpful or harmless. We don’t use sprays and would only kill Lily beetles or vine weevils. She was quite surprised and very pleased when I pointed out baby ladybirds 🐞 all over her roses as they look very different to the adults and she was worried they were a pest. it’s amazing that this sort of stuff isn’t taught in schools. Children are usually fascinated by animals and I think an appreciation of wildlife is essential and adds pleasure and interest to daily life. 
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I used to regularly  bump into Pippa Greenwood when I lived " up Country" . We always chatted when we met and I suggested she wrote a book " Bugs and Beasties: friends or foe" . 
    I thought some sort of flow chart kinda thing. " does it fly? yes follow arrow, no follow arrow. Is it over 1cm ? etc etc"
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Maybe you should do it @Hostafan1 ... make your fortune 😉 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Dovefromabove said:
    Maybe you should do it @Hostafan1 ... make your fortune 😉 
    I know my limitations, and entomology is right up there ,  :D
    Devon.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    You've already made your fortune on those cat threads @Hostafan1 :D
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Fairygirl said:
    It's all these people who've recently discovered they have a garden @wild edges, and don't want to share it with any other living creatures.... :/
    I will admit that after posting that I went outside and killed several slugs that were eyeing up my seedlings and salad, and a lone vine weevil that was guilty of being a vine weevil. If those new members saw the amount of other nocturnal creepy crawlies that are infesting my garden they'd run inside and lock the door.

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    wild edges said:
     will admit that after posting that I went outside and killed several slugs that were eyeing up my seedlings and salad, and a lone vine weevil that was guilty of being a vine weevil. If those new members saw the amount of other nocturnal creepy crawlies that are infesting my garden they'd run inside and lock the door. 

     :D 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    People think gardeners are nurturers. We're merciless killers👺
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I could have killed whatever was upsetting the blackbird nest at 2am. I suspect the culprit can't be discussed on this thread though.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    wild edges said:
    I could have killed whatever was upsetting the blackbird nest at 2am. I suspect the culprit can't be discussed on this thread though.
     :/ 
    I feel your pain...
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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