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Attraction
Choose a spot in your garden or a wild space, and set out a small selection of natural or simple manmade attractants, such as a shallow dish of water, a pile of logs, a patch of bare earth, or a few o
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- Step by step
- Questions to wonder about
- Tip
- Variations
- Practising over time
- Resources
- Learning
- Safety notes
Inspired by The New Amateur Naturalist, p. 39. All sources →
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