Photos needed for our practical “How-to” guides We are looking for real garden photos to illustrate our leaflets on how to help wildlife in gardens – especially pictures showing projects in progress, and creatures making use of the finished work. They should be clear and in focus, but don’t need to be higher resolution than about 900 pixels square. By submitting pictures you are allowing us to use them on our web-pages and down-loadable pdf leaflets, and you will be fully credited as their author – so please send your name or nickname in the forms you would like to be credited with the pictures. Please send them by email to [email protected] The lists below show the titles we are creating and some ideas of the photos we would like you to send to us. It would help if you gave the number or title of the leaflet(s) so we can easily sort them out ready for use. The first list is for publications we want to create urgently to help a community project with our partners Learning through Landscapes in Leicester. https://www.ltl.org.uk/projects/polligen/ The second list is not so urgent, but the sooner we get pictures, the faster we can produce the leaflets 1. Photos needed as soon as possible for “How-to” leaflets and web pages Title Photo examples we would like 1 Improve your Photos of bees, hoverflies, butterflies and moths on flowers garden for bees & Photos of bees taking water, butterflies on fallen fruit, other pollinators Burrowing solitary bees in ground or on a bank, bumble bee emerging from underground nest, small bee hotel with holes bored in wood or bamboo stems 2 Improve your garden Garden beetles in natural habitat, especially larvae. Minor for beetles damage by herbivorous beetles that could be tolerated. Live beetles in a pitfall trap. Beetle banks, beetles in leaf litter or rotten wood 3 Improve your garden Photos showing food, nesting, shelter. Nest boxes with for birds birds emerging, variety of feeding structures with appropriate birds on. Berry plants with birds, seed plants with eg goldfinch. Birds at “bird bath” drinking from pond. Cleaning a bird feeder. 4 Create a wildlife Spring bulbs naturalised in lawn, long grass areas on a friendly lawn lawn, wildflowers established in a lawn, paths mown through longer grass, lawns successfully converted into wildflower areas. 5 Create a bed of Bed planted with cornfield annuals, bed with cornfield annual flowers for annuals and wheat or barley, Sowing seeds in a prepared wildlife bed 6 Plan a wildlife- Children playing in part of a garden with long grass and friendly garden fruit trees in the background, small garden wildlife pond, pond in a tub, bird table, plan you have made of a garden, log pile, rockery etc 7 Improve a balcony for Images of a well-planted balcony, wildlife-friendly plants wildlife in tubs, climbers, bird feeders, nest boxes, bee hotels 8 Improve a patio for Photo of well set-up small patio garden. Plants in tubs, wildlife climbers, small fruiting trees, useful “water features” that birds or insects can use, bird feeding station, good plants for bees https://www.rhs.org.uk/garden- inspiration/wildlife/top-10-patio-plants-for-bees 9 Improve a vegetable Bee boxes, nest boxes. pollinator friendly flowers between patch or allotment for rows of crops, compost heap, standing dry stems in winter, wildlife log pile. Small allotment pond or water bath. Allowing some eg onions, brassicas to flower, tolerance of flowering weeds. 10 Improve a small Pictures of small gardens with lots of wildlife features. garden for wildlife 11 Garden for wildlife in Pictures of all sorts of community gardens growing food or a community space for flowers and pleasure. People planting or working in community space 12 Create habitat piles Pictures of rockeries, wood piles, rock piles, bee hotels, hedge bottoms with eg hedgehog, dead wood with fungi or beetles, bog gardens 13 Garden for wildlife Any examples of children engaged in planting , tending or with children harvesting plants, fascinated children looking at insectsor pond creatures. 14 Plant a window box Photos of attractive examples of window boxes with for pollinators pollinator friendly flowers, herbs trailing plants, attached bird feeders etc 15 Bring water into your Photos of bird baths, large and small ponds, boggy patches, garden bog garden areas 16 Make & maintain a Properly placed bird boxes, boxes for different species with bird box emerging birds, cleaning a bird box, bird box camera images of broods and parents 17 Deal with pests and Photos of control without chemicals, hand removal of lily weeds in the garden beetle, snails etc, beer traps ichneumon (parasites) for controlling greenhouse pests, weed removal by hand 18 Create a vertical Photos of planters stacked against a wall, hanging wall garden for wildlife planters, climbing plants, vertical green walls, anywhere a wall has been used to support more plant species. 19 Create & maintain a Photos of all sorts of “wildflower meadow” – patches of wildflower meadow cornflower annuals, areas of longer grass with plant plugs and established wildflowers, removing turf and exposing subsoil, examples of well established meadows in gardens with native plants. 20 Create a green roof Photos of all sorts of green roofs (and walls) you have for wildlife successfully created, with sedum roofs, turf roofs, sown wildflower roofs etc. Photos needed for the later set of leaflets Title Photo examples we would like 21 Improve your garden Pictures of frogs, newts, toads, grass snakes and lizards in for amphibia and gardens. Pictures of amphibia found under stones, frogs reptiles hiding in a bog garden. Tadpoles in a garden pond, newly metamorphosed frogs. Newts attacking frogspawn. 22 Improve your garden Successfully placed bat boxes, bats photographed in attics, for bats any remarkable shots of bats in flight, over ponds etc. 23 Improve your garden All sorts! Insects on flowers, dung, rotting fruit, compost, for invertebrates pond creatures, soil animals, long grass, bee hotels, rockery with visible cavities or basking insects, snails grouped together in a sheltered place 24 Improve your garden Clean small and large ponds with shallow margins and for dragonflies and emergent vegetation, photos of adult and larval species, damselflies especially if feeding. 25 Improve your garden Areas of cover such as dense vegetation, leaf piles under for hedgehogs and hedges. Molehills, badger digging, foxes or badgers raiding other mammals bins, deer in the garden. Mice or voles or shrews in long grass, squirrel or mice eating hazelnuts or fruit. Mammals drinking from pond. Hedgehog feeding station (not milk!) 26 Improve a large Photos showing some of the larger trees, shrubs, habitat garden for wildlife areas ponds and other features that more space might allow. 27 Create & maintain Pictures of making ponds – laying outlines, digging, lining, ponds for wildlife disposing of waste soil, contouring etc. Large lined ponds, preformed ponds, mini ponds, plants in planters. Large and small established vegetated ponds, overgrown ponds, removing excess plants. 28 Create & maintain a Any photos of creating bee-banks (see 'bee bank' https://cdn.buglife.org.uk/2020/04/Bee-bank-booklet-2.pdf). Pictures of solitary ground-nesting bees 29 Create & maintain Pictures showing a variety of bird baths, especially home birdbaths made and with birds or bees using them 30 Create & maintain a Photos of bog garden being made as part of a pond creation bog garden project. Natural boggy garden areas. Photos of established bog gardens, if possible with animals using them 31 Garden for wildlife Photos of collecting seeds, sowing wildflower seeds in on the cheap trays, home-made DIY wildlife features, log and leaf piles. 32 Improve your wildlife People with butterfly nets, moth traps, birdwatching, pond skills dipping, using hand lenses etc 33 Garden organically Appropriate photos of using organic techniques, hand for wildlife weeding, manual pest control etc. Photos of flourishing organic veg or flower beds, photos of minor tolerable leaf damage by caterpillars etc. 34 Garden in a way that Home-made compost, repurposing eg plastic bottles, home doesn't damage the made fertiliser etc. Constructing features with recycled planet wood or tree loppings. .