Description
Wlldlife on your Doorstep: The Living Countryside
Introduction
Insects in the garden
Wildlife comes to our city centres
Honey bees
Pavements: life on the street
The family life of the earwig
Natural life in our town parks
Ladybirds: welcome beetles
Finding refuge in the garden
The black garden ant
The natural history of walls
Industrial melanism
The wildlife in our homes
Birds
Down in the dump: compost heap life
Tip life: a throw-away society
Robins: friendly garden visitors
Motorway verges: grassy havens
Sparrows of town and country
Life along the railway tracks
Black-and-white wagtails
Wildlife among the tombstones
Garden visiting greenfinches
Plants
Swifts on the wing
Swooping house martins
Colourful street trees
Acrobatic blue and great tits
Pride of London: London planes
The blackbird: a jaunty songster
Cherries from the Orient
Starlings: saints or sinners?
Golden chains of laburnum
Black-headed gulls: living off the land
Lilacs in the spring
Mammals
Early flowering forsythias
Buddleia: butterfly bush
Twentieth-century urban fox
Lichens in the city
Bristol badgers: an urban success
Roadsides: plant havens
The garden home of the hedgehog
Successful invaders of urban areas
The house mouse: an urban squatter
Persistent urban flowers
The old English rat in a steady decline
Weeds in the garden
Insects
Success and the brown rat
Feral cats: back to nature
Insects and man
Town bats: serotine & pipistrelle
Butterfly winter sleepers
The bat with long ears
Cabbage-patch villains
Cockroach scavengers
Houseflies: the swarming hordes
Spiders that haunt our houses
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Hardcover
190+ pages
In excellent preloved condition. First edition.