I previously wrote about re-wilding my small patch of garden in the centre of a capital city (granted one of the greenest cities in the UK, but a city nonetheless).
I took a ‘minimal pruning’ approach to allow for plants to do what they wanted, and wild seeds to produce growth rather than me pulling them out as ‘suspected weeds’, in order to see if it made a difference to the presence of insects and wildlife (it did), and as a result took notes of what turned up this year, below – a not-insubstantial list!
Wildlife 2023
Honey bees
Early bumblebees
Field cuckoo bumblebee?
Tawny mining bee
White-tailed bumblebees
Red-tailed bumbles
Mason bee?
Nomad bee?
Leaf cutter bee?
Other small bees on the marjoram
Wasps
Bluetits
Coaltits
Sparrows inc nest in wall
Blackbirds
Goldfinches
Greenfinch?
Wood pigeons
Robins
Hoverfly?
Moths
Gnats
Greenfly
Snails
Slugs
Slaters
Hawthorn shield bug
Beetles
Lots more spiders by not pruning
Orange-tip butterfly, male
Green-veined white butterfly
Speckled Wood butterflies
Short-horned grasshopper
Leave a Reply