wildlife gardening

Monarch butterfly Danaus plexippus & Queen butterfly Danaus gilippus life cycle on Mexican milkweed Asclepias curassavica.  Illustration includes pupa and caterpillar for both species.

Hedgehog Erinaceus europaeus with nettles, log pile, fungi, and butterfly. Illustration from The Hidden Universe: Adventures in Biodiversity by Alexandre Antonelli

Honey bee worker Apis mellifera illustration from A Life on Our Planet by David Attenborough

Wildlife home diagram for a bumblebee nest with an inverted flower pop and a length of hose pipe as the entryway

Wildlife home diagram for a bumblebee nest showing a wooden box full of hay or straw, in a hole under a stone with a pipe for access

Cross section of an ideal wildlife pond showing frog, water but, aquatic plants, a log pile and watering can, and floating water soldier being visited by a damselfly

Robin Erithacus rubecula splahsing in a white neoclassical style pedestal bird bath with water droplets spraying around, plumage fluffed out, and a grassy lawn behind

Blue tit Parus caeruleus visiting a bird box

Great crested newt Triturus cristatus

Great crested newt Triturus cristatus

Great crested newt Triturus cristatus with background

Natterjack toad Epidalea calamita

Common toad Bufo bufo

Common newt Lissotriton vulgaris eggs

Common Frog Rana temporaria frogspawn

Alpine newt Mesotriton alpestris

American Spring Peeper frog Pseudacris crucifer singing

Common frog Rana temporaria

Common frog Rana temporaria life cycle including tadpole, frogspawn and froglets

Common Frog Rana temporaria life cycle

Common newt Lissotriton vulgaris

African clawed toad Xenopus laevis