Lately, I've heard many people saying things like “Oh dear, I've hardly seen any bees this year” (pause while I flinch away from wading into the Pulmonaria to trim it, deafened by the buzz of pollinating insects) and to be fair, I was walking along a run of flowering Lavender last week, with not a single insect to be seen on it, which was a bit odd.
And then there's the ongoing Ladybird shortage: “The aphids! The aphids! Where are all the ladybirds?”
Good news, cats and kittens, there are plenty of Ladybirds around: well, there will be, shortly.
Can you see them? Yes, all those weird-looking black and orange things are the larval stage....
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