The nursery of my garden: swallow and hedgehog

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Re: The nursery of my garden: swallow and hedgehog




by Did67 » 13/08/17, 12:32

Ah, I'm not the only one to have visits like this!
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Re: The nursery of my garden: swallow and hedgehog




by Flytox » 14/09/17, 11:46

This post will become an identification service for the various critters : Mrgreen:

What are these ladybug-sized critters wandering around on the Bignonia?

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Re: The nursery of my garden: swallow and hedgehog




by Did67 » 14/09/17, 12:00

No doubt bedbugs. More specifically, the 3rd larval stage of the green bug! Nezara viridula of her real name.

http://civambiogironde.chez-alice.fr/ci ... 20044p.pdf

In passing, we will once again note the great differences that may exist between adults and larval stages in insects.

So many people hunt the ladybug larva, however the most voracious (more voracious than its adult - it must grow!), Thinking that such a monster could only be harmful!

https://www.google.fr/search?q=larve+de ... -j1QV9QCrM:
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Re: The nursery of my garden: swallow and hedgehog




by Flytox » 14/09/17, 12:14

Interesting :| ...... it's just in the area where I wanted to make a mini vegetable garden ...... : Wink: Do you have an "organic + than organic" advice to give me?
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Re: The nursery of my garden: swallow and hedgehog




by Did67 » 14/09/17, 14:32

I do have a few bugs ... Never anything that did not compromise "productivity" ... So I never tried to do something against them ...

To laze is to start, before doing something, to ask yourself the question if it is well worth doing it ... In general, the conclusion is that it is also effective to do nothing ... And by losing a little time to think, you gain a lot in the end!
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Re: The nursery of my garden: swallow and hedgehog




by Grelinette » 14/09/17, 17:41

This year, not having been able to go on vacation, we were able to observe various singular changes in the surrounding fauna of our house (Bouche du Rhône, near Aix en Provence), with fun encounters! ...

We have a veranda in which 3 more or less stray cats come to sleep but are now a little domesticated: it is easier for them to come in the evening to eat the kibbles left at their disposal rather than going hunting for food! I made them a small cat flap so that these cats lead their lives without being too intrusive.

A little hedgehog has found the trick of going through the cat flap to come and eat cat food, but also go to sleep in one of the baskets with cushion intended for cats! I surprised him, completely lying in the basket with the cat next to him who was moaning because of this invasive spiked squatter. At first I found it rather amusing, but very quickly I realized that a hedgehog in a house was very messy: it makes droppings that stink everywhere!
Each evening I took the hedgehog in the cat's basket, with gloves, to place it far at the other end of the garden ... and the following evening it was still there! It lasted for several days, then he ended up not sleeping.
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Another notable change: we have fewer wall lizards in the garden, and even less, it seems, of snakes and frogs; having large reserves full of water (so also with a lot of mosquitoes), so far in the evening it was a concerto of frogs ... nothing this year!

However, we now have a lot of Gécko lizards which are installed in every corner of buildings, behind doors, shutters, and even inside the house. There are some big ones (about 15 to 20 cm), especially medium ones (about 10 cm) and very small ones of a few centimeters that we see every day on the ceiling in the kitchen and in the living room, and some are translucent . We were told it was good luck, and since they don't bother us, we leave them.
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More curious, we are in the countryside, and there are a lot of wild boars approaching very close to the house. Regularly, I go out at night with an electric lamp to hunt them because they make holes everywhere.
One day when I came back from a stroll in the middle of the day, I was surprised to see a herd of young red boars, like squirrels!
Usually the boars are striped beige, while this did not have stripes but were reddish. My veterinarian confirmed their presence and proliferation to me, and it would surely be a hybrid resulting from an accidental crossing of a wild boar with a "pet pig" in a private individual (a "NAC": new animal company), maybe a underground red river hog, or coming from a breeding little respect for local breeds ...
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Then an even more curious visit: one morning in the garden we saw a peacock (the female peacock) settle!
She stayed several weeks in the garden, and ate the seeds that we gave to our hens (note in passing that the peacock and the hens did not get along: the pea hunted the hens!). I phoned everywhere to find out if this pea had not escaped from a neighboring property, but apparently no, she lived like that in complete freedom and went from garden to garden!
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Re: The nursery of my garden: swallow and hedgehog




by Did67 » 14/09/17, 19:09

A real zoo! Are you missing a panda? (to do with the Chinese)
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Re: The nursery of my garden: swallow and hedgehog




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Re: The nursery of my garden: swallow and hedgehog




by Flytox » 06/06/22, 23:14

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A very young green woodpecker in the garden. Too easy to approach....he limped a little too much for it to be honest/good sign....Hope the neighborhood cats don't settle his account....
In the space of 2 days, in this same garden, we saw this young Green Woodpecker, a young Redstart with its parents (live in the roof of the house), a young Blackbird also with its parents, a couple of Wood pigeons, several pairs of Turkish doves, swifts well above, a Hoopoe (juvenile?), a few swallows and many sparrows. This year seems better than the previous ones for the diversity and quantity of visible birds.
For the Pic Vert it seems a bit surprising, the house is in the city center (Capbreton) 1 km from the forest?.
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