I am excited to share our latest article, entitled ‘Improving biodiversity in Central and Eastern European gardens needs regionally scaled strategies‘, which has just been published in Urban Forestry & Urban Greening and is now available online here. This article is the output of an international project, which Dr. Gabor Pozsgai and I conceived, and …
At the end of summer, most of the fly species found in our garden chose the overripe fruits of the fig tree as their favourite food. However, it seemed a Sarchophaga fly did not want to share this resource with the others. It tried to keep its competitors away by spreading its legs out to the …
One day in late summer, we were picking the matured figs at the back of our garden and our harvest was accompanied by louder-than-usual buzzing sounds. Around the overripe figs flew a lot of insects and landed on these already opened fruits: honey bees (Apis mellifera) and some fly species, such as the locust blowfly …