u/Successful_Rough_538

I am prepared to be told off for this one. But I am keen to be educated...

We are rewilding our front and back gardens, mostly going good.

However, there is a well establshed horse chestnut that suffers terribly from leaf miner. It always drops its conkers and leaves early and frankly looks dreadful from June onwards.

I have seen pheramone traps and want peoples opinion on the use of them.

Positives:

+ The leaf miner has only been in the UK 20 years, so controlling it might not be a bad thing?

+ If I usedit and it controls the miner successfully then I can leave the leaf litter. on the ground to encourage other nartvie species that use leaf litter to hibernate, eat, etc...

Negatives:

- I do not know if it traps other beneficial insects

- I do not know if leaf miner is beneficial overall

- It is still an intervention and may not work

So what do we think, helpful or harmful?

I think we all know the impact on animals/pets/wildlife fireworks have. There are ten questions to answer on the online consultation here.

Here is a link to the broader consultation.

I think we all know the impact on animals and wildlife fireworks have. There are ten questions to answer on the online consultation here.

Here is a link to the broader consultation.

I think we all know the impact on wildlife fireworks have. There are ten questions to answer on the online consultation here.

Here is a link to the broader consultation.

I think we all know the impact on wildlife fireworks have. There are ten questions to answer on the online consultation here.

Here is a link to the broader consultation.

I think we all know the impact on wildlife fireworks have. There are ten questions to answer on the online consultation here.

Here is a link to the broader consultation.

I think we all know the impact on wildlife fireworks have. There are ten questions to answer on the online consultation here.

Here is a link to the broader consultation.

Think we all know the imapct on wildlife fireworks have. There are ten questions to answer on the online consultation here.

Here is a link to the broader consultation.

So I have been rewilding my garden, I have hedgehog cameras set up and get several hedgehogs visit each evening to feed on food we leave out for them.

We notice lots of mice also visit and we also notice they are using the hibernaculum log pile we set up.

This is all fine, but we do worry if there is a risk the mice could get out of hand. Especially if they brave it toward the house/indoors or the neighbours start seeing them.

We have seent he mice running baout during the day at the back of our garden.

I know this is all part and parcel of rewilding, but others don't always share this view point.

I'm away for a couple of days and need a soluton to feed the hedgehogs that visit my garden.

Ideally something that just lifts a cover off some prepared bowls or something.

Any ideas/all ideas welcome?

I have seen a few places selling boxes of bumble bees that you place in your garden.

Is this one of those things that sounds good but is actually a horrible idea? E.g. introduces diseases to local populations, etc... OR is it a good way to boost local numbers of insects.

If it is beneficial, does anyone know of good sources for invertibrates? What are the best to get?

Recently my H10 has been showing erratic readings. The firmware is upto date and it has recently had a battery change. The issue occured both before and after the battery change. It is paired to my Polar Pacer.

The unit is approx 2 years old and is used for running twice a week.

What happens is this - Running:

Warm up ~ 15 minutes - HR seems to be reported correctly.
Hard Running ~ 12 minutes - Heart rate seems okay - although one time thought my HR was 220.

Cool down ~ 15 minutes - sometimes HR seems accurate other times it has reported my HR is 60-70bpm. This is ridiculous since My HR is still elevated from the hard running.

This has occured a few times in recent weeks and is making my data useless.

So either my heart is about to give way, or the H10/Watch/Connection/Software has something wrong.

Has anyone found this/resolved it?

We have a wildflower meadow and are conflicted as to when we should cut it.

I was considering early March - to allow insects to hibernate in the long grass/plants over winter and allow birds to forage the seed heads.

As an alternative I was considering cutting in autumn carefully and then standing the cutting upright in pots so that any insects hibernating within the plant matter can stay there.

What do you good people suggest/recommend?

Hello,

I'm considering working with a wildlife resuce charity in the UK. I have quite bad contamination OCD.

How can I keep safe while helping clean out enclosures of animals? Recommended PPE, etc...

I'd love to help, but also I'm very worried about catching diseases.

Any/all advice welcome.

Hello,

I'm considering working with a wildlife resuce charity in the UK. I have quite bad contamination OCD.

How can I keep safe while helping clean out enclosures of animals? Recommended PPE, etc...

I'd love to help, but also I'm very worried about catching diseases.

Any/all advice welcome.

Hello,

I'm considering working with a wildlife resuce charity in the UK. I have quite bad contamination OCD.

How can I keep safe while helping clean out enclosures of animals? Recommended PPE, etc...

I'd love to help, but also I'm very worried about catching diseases.

Any/all advice welcome.

We are getting our guttering and fascia replaced soon. I thought this is a good opportunity to install some suitable wall mounted boxes for birds.

My house is semi-detatched 2 story north-west England, the front of the house faces north, with the side east and rear south.

What bird boxes/nests are suitable to install on these walls? It seems swift/swallow would be good for the side of the house, but if I can provide any other boxes/nests else where I'd love to know.

I'm looking to install a hedge in my front garden, probably beech, maybe holly.

What kind of depth/height is minimum for nesting birds?

The hedge will be a T shape between my neighbours and I 6x7 meters.