Towns and gardens
The green spaces of our towns and gardens bring nature into our daily lives, brightening our mornings with birdsong and the busy buzzing of bees. Together, the UK's gardens are larger than…
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Wilder Diaries: Sand gardens and futureproofing against drought
As we face more frequent extremes of flooding and drought, we must turn our attention to ways in which we may need to change how we manage gardens and green spaces. Some of you have already been…
Discover wildlife in your garden
Devon’s gardens are a great place to see wildlife up close. Discover the importance of gardens for wildlife and learn what to look out for in your garden
Hello Team Wilder: Meet the people behind Wild about Loddiswell
We are Wild About Loddiswell, a community group based in the village of Loddiswell, in the Avon Valley near Kingsbridge. Our watch words are: “Wildlife, Conservation, Sustainability, Community…
Wildlife Garden Award
The Wildlife Garden Award invites you to add your garden to the patchwork of wild spaces across Devon! Apply today to receive your plaque.
About us
We are the only charity that exists to protect all wildlife in Devon and to safeguard Devon’s unique natural environment.
Garden bumblebee
Unsurprisingly, the garden bumblebee can be found in the garden, buzzing around flowers like foxgloves, cowslips and red clover. It is quite a large, scruffy-looking bee, with a white tail. It…
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Garden tiger moth
The garden tiger is an attractive, brown-and-white moth of sand dunes, woodland edges, meadows and hedgerows; it will also visit gardens. In decline, it is suffering from the 'tidying up…
Black garden ant
The black garden ant is the familiar and abundant small ant that lives in gardens, but also turns up indoors searching for sugary food. In summer, winged adults, or 'flying ants', swarm…
Garden warbler
A plain-looking warbler, the garden warbler is a summer visitor to the UK. It is a shy bird and is most likely to be heard, rather than seen, in woodland and scrub habitats.
Garden spider
Have you ever stopped to look at the shape of a spider web? Garden spiders spin a spiral shaped web, perfect for catching lots of juicy prey!