Still continuing until Monday 5th April (Easter Monday) is the Tooting Safe Seed Swap, organised by Sharing Seeds. Take along your spare seeds and get some more for your Pollinator Paradise. We have swapped all sorts of great seeds for pollinators over the last week so find your nearest spot and see what is available.

Not all Pollinators are insects: birds, lizards and mammals also play their part, including a bat. Discovered in cloud forests in Ecuador in 2005, the tube-lipped nectar bat (Anoura fistulata) has the longest tongue, relative to body length, of any known mammal.

The tiny mammal stores the 3.5-inch-long (9cm) tongue, more than one and a half times the length of the bat's body, in its ribcage. The extraordinary organ marks the bat as the exclusive pollinator of a nectar-rich plant called Catropogon nigricans.