I've always been tempted to coat the garden in nematodes for ants less aphid farming (which I'm sure helps spread blackspot on the roses), and less guards for the aphids, might help the ladybirds too.. and obviously no swarms of flying ants in hot weather
I blamed the BT engineer who made a huge hole in the frame for the wire...........once the window was open they were gone. Just found it amazing that so many played follow the leader through that hole
On another ant note - one of the cats decided he was having his tea outside and I dropped a piece of chicken. I have been watching them carrying off tiny tiny pieces - like the Borrowers and at the moment, there is a black line of them shoulder to shoulder munching away all around the edge.
Many years ago I had a teenage son - he didn't like me tidying his bedroom, always saying that he'd do it himself One day I came home and noticed what looked like an electric wire or cable running up the front of the house (white house) and into his bedroom window 'What piece of electric equipment has he got up there now?' I wondered (he later became a sound engineer) and I went up to his room to have a look ......... the 'black cable' was a thick column of ants starting in the front garden, going up the front of the house, through a crack in a beam beneath the window (very old house) and finishing in a row of half empty Coke cans lined up along one of the beams which formed a narrow shelf along his bedroom wall!!!!!!! Apparently he was 'collecting them'!!!!!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I noticed a bit of activity in the wood tank, had a look and discovered an echidna nosing around. There must be ants in there (hopefully not termites). Echidnas are very shy.
Very beautiful pat. It might confuse my hedgehogs however. I seem to have one at the moment who has fallen in love with the prickly boot scraper mat outside the back door. Last year I'm sure one was trying to mate with an upside down plug tray.
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I've always been tempted to coat the garden in nematodes for ants
less aphid farming (which I'm sure helps spread blackspot on the roses), and less guards for the aphids, might help the ladybirds too.. and obviously no swarms of flying ants in hot weather
Many years ago I had a teenage son - he didn't like me tidying his bedroom, always saying that he'd do it himself
One day I came home and noticed what looked like an electric wire or cable running up the front of the house (white house) and into his bedroom window 
'What piece of electric equipment has he got up there now?' I wondered (he later became a sound engineer) and I went up to his room to have a look ......... the 'black cable' was a thick column of ants starting in the front garden, going up the front of the house, through a crack in a beam beneath the window (very old house) and finishing in a row of half empty Coke cans lined up along one of the beams which formed a narrow shelf along his bedroom wall!!!!!!! Apparently he was 'collecting them'!!!!!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
At the very least ...........
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Maybe I could lend you one of these!
I noticed a bit of activity in the wood tank, had a look and discovered an echidna nosing around. There must be ants in there (hopefully not termites). Echidnas are very shy.
Very beautiful pat. It might confuse my hedgehogs however. I seem to have one at the moment who has fallen in love with the prickly boot scraper mat outside the back door. Last year I'm sure one was trying to mate with an upside down plug tray.
This one was trying to pretend he wasn't there, Fidget.
The hedgehog on the mat last night was trying to do the same when I opened the back door.
So much pleasure from seeing the wildlife - it's not measurable.