Wildlife Guides – Wycombe Wildlife Group

Gardens for Amphibians

Amphibians: – frogs, toads & newts, need three essential things from their habitat: food, water in which to breed and to keep them moist and, as they are cold-blooded animals, a cool, damp place in which to hibernate during the winter.

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Gardens for Bees & Wasps

There is a great variety of bees & wasps which, unlike the Honey Bee, are solitary. They don’t live in colonies with a queen, drones and workers, there are just the males and females.

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Gardens for Beneficial Insects

From these brief notes you can appreciate the advantages of providing a welcome for these insects in your garden. Both ladybirds and lacewings hibernate as adults in the winter months. If you provide them with safe places to hibernate you will have lots of them around in the following spring and summer to control those unwelcome pests – greenfly.

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Gardens for Birds

Trees and hedgerows are important habitats for birds, and many rely on gardens for nesting places and a source of natural foods. Every garden, however small, can help to provide these habitats and so improve birds’ chances of survival.

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Gardens for Butterflies

With the loss of natural habitats due to urbanisation and intensive farming, gardens managed in a wildlife friendly manner are an important refuge for butterflies and other wildlife.

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Creating and managing small wildlife areas

Setting aside small areas and managing them for the benefit of wildlife is something that can be achieved in the grounds of schools, colleges and business premises, in open spaces with public access and in private gardens. As well as being of benefit to wildlife conservation, such areas provide a valuable learning resource.

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Gardens for Deadwood

Dead wood, standing or fallen, is a very important habitat as it supports a great variety of wildlife. In woodland nature reserves when trees are felled and it is not convenient to leave them lying where they fall, they are often cut up and the logs are stacked in piles. These wood piles are referred to as “habitat piles”. By constructing a wood pile you can bring this habitat and its fascinating creatures to your garden or school wildlife area.

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Gardens for Waterlife

A pond is one of the most important features of a wildlife garden, attracting more wildlife than anything else. With the loss of so many natural and village ponds, garden ponds play a significant role in ensuring that those species which undergo their early development in water continue to thrive.

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