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the reason it remained unidentified being that
the neighbour's cat got to it before I did!
True, Bombus lucorum has robbed me of many a
Runner Bean by drilling holes in the corolla
tubes of the flowers and helping itself to
nectar without doing any pollinating in
return; the slugs have chewed the Michaelmas
Daisies down to root level and the Greenfly
have reduced my Lupins to husks. As for
cabbages and Brussels sprouts - well, who needs
them? I'd much rather have Cabbage White
butterflies any day - to look at that is! It
is a wildlife garden after all and it could be
argued that they are entering into the spirit
of the thing, if perhaps not quite in the way I
had intended .....
GRAHAM SMITH
PROPOSED RESTRUCTURE OF THE NATURAL HISTORY
MUSEUM
Many members of the Field Club will have heard
of the proposed changes at the Natural History
Museum, but few will probably appreciate the
depth or significance of the proposed
restructuring. The following is an extract
from 'Habitat' the newsheet of the Environment
Council (published June, 1990) which sums up
the fears many people have for the future of
this world-renowned museum.
MARK HANSON