Taking a break from tech stuff today and taking time to enjoy the natural wonders of the world.
A good while ago now, I noticed that a hedgehog was visiting our garden—so I bought a hedgehog house for him/her. Pronoun unknown. 🙂
Then found she had already built a proper and far superior, hibernaculum. So she has already moved in.
The hedgehog house was taken over and usefully repurposed as an Air Bee & Bee.
Yes, it now houses a busy nest of Irish bumbles 🙂
It’s under the cover of bushes— so relatively dry and out of the wind. The hedgehog house has a curled entrance, like a sea shell, so it has a built-in wind baffler. Delighted the clever queen spotted it and saw the potential.
We never use pesticides, herbicides, weed killer, glyphocates in any form whatsoever. The slugs and snails will be organic and healthy for the hedgehog and the flowers clean and healthgiving for the bees (and other garden insects).
The garden is also a home to many Nursery spiders.
Look at that whopping egg sac! The Nursery spider rolls it along till she’s happy she’s found a spot to anchor the sac to until the baby spiders hatch out.
There are lots, possibly hundreds, of baby spiders that eventually emerge. You can see a couple under the bottom-left leaf. They disperse and go off on their own spider travels.
So, hope you enjoyed a quick look at my garden residents and feel the love.
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