THE UPPER WENSLEYDALE NEWSLETTER ISSUE 192 June 2013 Donation please: 30p suggested or more if you wish By Tom Purvis or tubs, bee-loving flowers. Would we really Published by Upper Wensleydale Editorial worry if the odd corner could be left a bit The Upper Wensleydale Newsletter Newsletter o flies on us! Last week a cuckoo wild? Insects and butterflies thrive on nettles! Burnside Coach House, was heard up at Lunds. That wouldn’t A pile of rotting logs and twigs provides a have been particularly worth mention- Burtersett Road, Hawes DL8 3NT Issue 192— June 2013 N wonderful habitat for all the creepy-crawlies! ing even just 20 years ago. That isn’t all that’s How about digging up that un-wanted tarmac Features becoming very rare. Do you remember when or patio to make more growing-space? If the Tel: 667785 the sticky fly-paper in the kitchen was solid nasty ash-tree disease persists, we’d all better with flies; the nearly empty jam jar on the win- e-mail:
[email protected] Editorial 3 plant a tree. dow sill alive with wasps enjoying themselves; More seriously though, it is a matter of bal- ____________________________ the rambler rose on the garden wall with a ance. Let the big boys get on with the essential Printed by Wensleydale Press Dentist visit 7 cloud of humming flies and bees? When did efforts to increase the food supply, while the ________________ ____________ you last see a ladybird? And this is here in the millions of the little people, covering vast ar- Committee: Alan S.Watkinson, Doctor’s Rotas 25 countryside! Barry Cruickshanks (web), Sue E .Duffield, eas of suburbs, gardens and even waste spaces, ____________________________ So this month we are on about little things: support the little things.