What You Could See This Year

Things to look out for at Prudhoe Wildlife Garden and around Prudhoe, this coming year:

Insects, birds and amphibians

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Some of the insect life at Prudhoe Wildlife Garden during 2025

BUTTERFLIES:

- Peacock

- Red Admiral

- Painted Lady

- White-Lettered Hairstreak

- Meadow Brown

- Small White

- Orange Tip

- Comma

- Tortoiseshell

- Speckled Wood

- Green veined White

- Large White

- Holly Blue

- Small Skipper

- Ringlet

BEES:

- Wool Carder

- Red Tailed

- Leaf Cutter

- Common Carder

- White Tailed

- Orange Tailed Mining bee

- Buff Tailed

- Tree Bumblebee

- Early Bumblebee

BIRDS:

- House Sparrow

- Blackbird

- Jackdaw

- Wood pigeon

- Blue Tit

- Greenfinch

- Goldfinch

- Robin

- Dunnock

- Great Tit

POND CREATURES:

- Pond Skater

- Azure Blue Damselfly

- Broad-bodied Chaser Dragonfly

- Common Hawker Dragonfly

- Great Pond Snail

- Common Darter Dragonfly

OTHER INSECTS & WILDLIFE:

- Adonis Ladybird

- Marmalade Hoverfly

- 7-Spot Ladybird

- Green Shield Bug

- Orange Ladybird

- Brown China-mark Moth

Star plants for wildlife

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MEADOW PLANTS:

- Musk Mallow

- Birds Foot Trefoil

- Cornflower

- Ox Eye Daisy

- Corn Cockle

- Kidney Vetch

- Sainfoin

- Red Clover

- Knapweed

POND & POND SIDE PLANTS:

- Water Lilly

- Loosestrife

- Pickerel plant

- Flag Iris

- Marsh Marigold

- Meadow Sweet

ORNAMENTAL PERENNIALS:

- Golden Marguerite

- Sea Holly

- Vipers Bugloss

- Lavender

- Lambs Ears

- Helenium

- Evening Primrose

- Globe Thistle

- Echinacea

- Veronicastrum

- Hemp Agrimony (Eupatorium)

- Verbena bonariensis

- Achillea (Yarrow)

- Aster

- Salvia (Sage)

SHRUBS:

- Lavatera

- Buddleia

- Guelder Rose

- Flowering Currant

- Pyracantha

- Dogwood

- Hypericum

- Hebe

- Wild Rose/ Hedge Rose

TREES:

- Elm

- Holly

- Rowan

- Crab Apple

- Silver Birch

- Hazel