We should never underestimate how much we can influence and affect nature, even on a small scale, and even when we see such depressing reports about the decline of nature and the loss of species. You can make a difference!

A few years ago I decided to grow a wildflower area in a forgotten part of my garden. It’s a tiny strip of land about ten feet long by four feet wide, but I bought some meadow seed mix online and planted it up.

Three years later and the range of insects in my garden is simply astonishing. I also get a brilliant range of birds and wild flowers, but these are the insects I’ve spotted:

Yellow-haired Sun Fly

Orange-spotted Plant Bug

Genus Buathra

Cucumber Green Spider

Green-veined White

Large Red Damselfly

Holly Blue

Small China-Mark

Genus Argyra

Grey-spotted Sedgesitter

Common Flower Flies

Birch Aphids

Muscoid Flies

Common Nettle-Tap

Thick-legged Hover Fly

Green-veined White

Marmalade Hover Fly

Western Honey Bee

Red-tailed Bumble Bee

Seven-spotted Lady Beetle

Narcissus Bulb Fly

Patchwork Leafcutter Bee

Early Mining Bee

Heath Bumble Bee

Tree Bumble Bee

Buff-tailed Bumble Bee

Pellucid Hover Fly

Early Bumble Bee

Vestal Cuckoo Bumble Bee

Tawny Mining Bee

Common Carder Bumble Bee