What a fantastic creature!!

What a fantastic creature!!

Heat wave, plants are confused and bichos galore!!

Dear readers, this unusual hot weather is making plants grow swiftly. Same plants that were previously too shy to grow, braving the cold weather though and which started to wake up until finally the snow faded away at the beginning of April.
Some people call this Climate Weirding, and to me they have a point.

This is what is going on at Fairlie Grow! at the mo:

Welcome Spring time!!

First hoverfly at sight in Fairlie Grow since last post.

I hope she'll turn into some amazing creature when she finishes munching our hebe.

Wild life still around

Not sure yet but I think this is one of the wasps or hoverflies that live in the bug-hotel/bird-feeeder-&-bath wooden column we built earlier last year and was swiftly populated (have a look a few posts back). I'll follow her and see where she lives to let you know. Bear with me.

I have been chasing a fat spider as well. Not the superfat one but a younger sister o her and this is all I could get. She was clearly in a hurry!

It is been so mild this winter so far that caterpillars are still about munching brassicas. I can tell for the holes they make and the frass they leave all around where they are. Hopefully birds are also about and wild take care of them.