New Ferry Butterfly Park

07/06/2026

Poulton Hall - Garden Open Day
Saturday 4th July, 2 - 5pm

Poulton Hall are kindly holding an Open Day in their Walled Gardens to raise awareness and funds for Wirral Wildlife and New Ferry Butterfly Park.

Enjoy a guided tour of the wild flower meadow
Have a go at hedge laying and scything
Explore the eclectic mix of themed formal gardens
Be entertained by the storyteller
Watch a bee keeping demonstration

Adult admission £6 or £10 to include a cream tea. Book a ticket at
https://www.ticketsource.com/whats-on/wirral/poulton-hall/poulton-hall-walled-gardens-opening/2026-07-04/14:00/t-rzqzlle

07/06/2026

These mating craneflies make an interesting image from Roy Lowry's visit to the Butterfly Park.

07/06/2026

Here's some help from Bumblebee Conservation Trust to help you identify bumblebees.

06/06/2026

On a recent photography visit Roy Lowry found that a few hoverflies were about including Melangyna sexguttata sensu lato which he doesn't see very often.

This name is much longer than the actual hoverfly!

06/06/2026

Walk Three -- Led by Yan Wang & Charles Collins at Friends of Hoylake Willows, Hoylake – Site of Friends of Hoylake Willows, Hoylake, Wed 15 Jul 2026 - Following a successful community event, we are delighted to announce the dates for a new set of project activities: Guided Butterfly Walks. Please...

05/06/2026

Do you want to attract insects to your garden?
Even a small pot of flowering chives can attract red tailed bumblebees.

05/06/2026

Two species of male mason bees (above Osmia caerluscens - blue mason - and below Osmia leaiana - orange-vented mason) posed for photos for Roy Lowry.

Notice the difference in the eyes (blue mason spotted, orange-vented mason black) and the more metallic head of the blue.

The orange-vented masons shared the rail around the brick pit with a number of five-spotted club-horned wasps that are a mason and leafcutter bee kleptoparasite.

04/06/2026

A Butterfly Walk in Hoylake, organised by the Friends of Hoylake Willows.
Book your place through this link
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/friendsofhoylakewillows/2245172

04/06/2026

It's Great Big Green Week.

Activities this Saturday at Birkenhead Central Library.

This Saturday (6th June) we will have a drop in craft activity for families at Birkenhead Central Library as part of the Great Big Green Week.

Join us 2-3pm where you can make a fabric flower, design a bookmark and plant your very own micro flower meadow in a pot🌻, whilst just using recyclable or recycled materials.

No need to book and on a first come first served basis until resources are used up ♻️

Also the wonderful Wirral Repair Cafe will on site 2-4pm- see below
"Come to Birkenhead Library to learn how to repair and recycle right during the Great Big Green Week!
Nicola will be showing visitors how to deal with stains and rips to clothing. Karen, an expert upholsterer, will be sharing her skills. Madeleine will teach how to darn holes in knitted clothes.
Rachel from Veolia's Gillmoss Recycling Discovery Centre will be there too to remind us what can be put in our grey recycling bins, now the rules have changed to include more items.
As usual, our repair team will be ready to fix a wide range of broken or non-functioning household goods, and hot drinks and homemade cake will be available in the café area - all free of charge"