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Gardening cartoons – butterflies are like flying flowers

May 23, 2012 by chrismadden

butterflies are like flying flowers - cartoon

Gardening cartoons – butterflies are like flying flowers

Cartoon showing butterflies in a garden

The gardener is saying “I like to think of butterflies as aerial flower displays”

A cartoon about attracting insects to the garden, butterfly gardening, garden design.

Cartoon reference number: a249

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Filed Under: Animals (wild or pets), GARDENING, Insects - creepy crawlies, Summer gardening

Garden bird feeder and bird seed cartoon

May 20, 2012 by chrismadden

bird feeder and bird seed cartoon

Cartoon about garden bird feeders, feeding stations and bird seed

Cartoon showing a bird feeder full of bird seed

The gardener is asking his wife if she has seen his prize marrow seeds

The implication is that the gardener’s wife has used the prize vegetable seeds as bird food.

Cartoon reference number: a248

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Filed Under: Animals (wild or pets), Birds, GARDENING

Bird nesting box cartoon – a bird box with classical facade

May 20, 2012 by chrismadden

bird box with classical facade cartoon

Cartoon about garden birds and bird nesting boxes

Bird nesting box cartoon – a classical facade for a bird box

A gardener nailing a classical facade in front of a hole in a tree that’s being used by a bird as a nest

A cartoon about attracting birds to gardens, bird box design, wildlife merchandising.

Cartoon reference number: a247

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Filed Under: Animals (wild or pets), Birds, GARDENING

Cartoon about garden birds and bird nesting boxes

May 20, 2012 by chrismadden

Bird nesting box cartoon

Cartoon about garden birds and bird nesting boxes

Cartoon showing a gardener looking at a bird that is nesting in a birdbox in his garden.
The bird is building a nest in the nesting box and is carrying nesting material to the nest.

The man is thinking “Isn’t that one of my prize delphinium seedlings?”

Birds as garden pests taking seedlings.
The cartoon also about the subject of being taken advantage of – the gardener has thoughtfully and kindly provided the bird with a nesting box, but the bird has then proceeded to take the gardener’s plants. Of course in real life the bird wouldn’t realise what it was doing, but this is a cartoon, and in cartoons animals are often as conscious of their actions as humans are – in fact they are humans in animal form.

Cartoon reference number: a246

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Filed Under: ANIMALS, Animals (wild or pets), Birds, GARDENING

Bird cartoon – attracting birds to your garden with a bird table

May 20, 2012 by chrismadden

autumn bird table bush cartoon

Cartoon about attracting birds to your garden with a bird table

The gardener has put a bush that is full of ripe berries onto the bird table to attract birds

A cartoon about encouraging wildlife in the garden, bird feeding stations, bird feeders.
Cartoon reference number: a243

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Filed Under: Animals (wild or pets), Birds, GARDENING

Insect pests in gardens – cartoon

May 20, 2012 by chrismadden

ants garden pests cartoon

Garden pests cartoons. Ants in the garden

Cartoon about garden insect pests – ants eating food on a garden table

Cartoon showing a man relaxing at a garden table, but with a column of ants eating his cake on the table. The man is reading a manual titled “How to get rid of ants”.

A cartoon about insect pests in gardens, ants attracted to sweet food in a garden.

Cartoon reference number: a239

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Filed Under: ANIMALS, Animals (wild or pets), GARDENING, Insects - creepy crawlies

Wildlife gardening cartoon – a nesting box for robins

May 7, 2012 by chrismadden

robin bird box - cartoon

Garden humour – putting a nesting box for robins

Cartoon showing a gardener putting a bird box in a tree to encourage birds to nest in his garden

The joke is in the fact that there’s a robin building a nest in the packaging or packing box that held the nesting box kit rather than in the nesting box itself.
Robins are well known for building their nests in unusual places, such as in discarded kettles, tin cans etc.

Cartoon reference number: a218

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Filed Under: ANIMALS, Animals (wild or pets), Birds, GARDENING

Garden cartoons – cats watching frogs spawning in a garden pond

May 5, 2012 by chrismadden

cats watching frogs spawning - joke

Garden pond cartoon. Cats watching frogs spawning in a garden pond

A cartoon showing cats staring into a garden pond in which frogs are spawning

A cartoon about wildlife in the garden, encouraging wildlife, cats catching birds and animals in the garden, deterring cats, frogs’ breeding season, spring in the garden.
Cartoon reference number: a204

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Filed Under: ANIMALS, Animals (wild or pets), Cat cartoons, GARDENING, Spring gardening, Wildlife in danger

Cat toilet cartoon

May 4, 2012 by chrismadden

cat joke - looking at seed bed

Cat cartoon. A cat looking at a freshly raked seed bed in a garden and thinking of using it as a toilet

One of the problems of cats in gardens is that they often use parts of the garden as a toilet

A cartoon about cats, litter trays, gardening, toilets, seed beds, deterring cats.
Cartoon reference number: a198

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Filed Under: ANIMALS, Animals (wild or pets), Cat cartoons, GARDENING

Cat cartoon. A cat trying to catch birds at a garden bird table

May 4, 2012 by chrismadden

cat catching birds cartoon

Funny cat cartoon. A cat trying to catch birds at a garden bird table

A humorous illustration about the problem of cats stalking birds in gardens

A cartoon about garden wildlife, bird tables, feeding birds.

Drawn: July 2011

Cartoon reference number: a197

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Filed Under: ANIMALS, Animals (wild or pets), Cat cartoons, Garden design, GARDENING

Garden pests cartoon

May 4, 2012 by chrismadden

a bugs guide to garden pests cartoon

Gardening cartoon. A bug’s guide to garden pests

A comic illustration showing a caterpillar or grub (a garden pest) looking at a gardening book or manual about garden pests. The pest shown in the book is a gardener with a canister of pesticide.
The cartoon is in the anthropomorphic tradition common in cartoons.

Cartoon reference number: a196

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Filed Under: ANIMALS, Animals (wild or pets), GARDENING, Insects - creepy crawlies

Garden birds cartoon. A bird feeder to attract predators to the garden

October 23, 2011 by chrismadden

Bird feeder cartoon for predators

Garden birds cartoon
Garden wildlife cartoon

A bird feeder to attract predators such as hawks and owls to the garden, in the form of a bird feeder with a small bird sitting inside it (like a bird cage)
A cartoon showing how to attract different types of wild bird to the garden.

A cartoon about opposing attitudes to nature – as either a benign force or as being “red in tooth and claw”
Cartoon reference number: gar009

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Filed Under: ANIMALS, Animals (wild or pets), Birds, GARDENING

Baby insect cartoon. Are maggots cute?

October 9, 2011 by chrismadden

Insect cartoon. An adult insect admiring a baby insect, saying how cute it is. It's a maggot

Insect cartoon
Maggot cartoon

Creepy crawly cartoon.
An adult insect admiring a baby insect, saying how cute and adorable it is. The baby insect is a maggot.
This cartoon is about the way that what we find attractive (or repulsive) is governed by factors of psychology and perception that are dependant on factors within the framework of our existence – such as whether we’re humans or insects. Evolution plays a big part.
Aesthetic judgement is not an independent quality.
Adults are hardwired to find babies attractive, cute and appealing.

A cartoon about aesthetics, beauty, prejudice, larva, larvae, grubs, maggots, aesthetic taste, bias, revulsion, repulsion, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, aesthetic relativism, entymology, evolution.
Cartoon reference number: mag710

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Filed Under: ANIMALS, Animals (wild or pets), Evolution, Insects - creepy crawlies, SCIENCE

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