Orchard Project 'Insect Hotel'
23rd February 2014
Before Christmas we published details of the Orchard Project and that most of the trees had now been received and planted. One of the other items that accompanied this project was the undertaking to leave the ground surrounding the trees to nature (apart from some tidying up and trimming) and we agreed that we would create an Insect Hotel on the scrappy area towards the front of the Orchard.
We now have some largish logs that have been donated, together with some that we had already rescued from a culled tree, to start the foundation of the Insect Hotel. Whilst it looks a bit unruly at this moment in time, the idea is to allow the logs to rot down, making an attractive home for insects, (hopefully all the right ones), which in turn will encourage both airborne friends and foe, in turn assisting the pollination of our trees.
By posting this message we hope that it deters anyone from believing that these trees / logs have just been discarded and would make great fuel for a wood burner! We are still on the look out for some logs etc.
The webmaster will be checking with camera in hand during the course of the year to see whether we have attracted anything interesting to our insect hotel. Watch this space!
We now have some largish logs that have been donated, together with some that we had already rescued from a culled tree, to start the foundation of the Insect Hotel. Whilst it looks a bit unruly at this moment in time, the idea is to allow the logs to rot down, making an attractive home for insects, (hopefully all the right ones), which in turn will encourage both airborne friends and foe, in turn assisting the pollination of our trees.
By posting this message we hope that it deters anyone from believing that these trees / logs have just been discarded and would make great fuel for a wood burner! We are still on the look out for some logs etc.
The webmaster will be checking with camera in hand during the course of the year to see whether we have attracted anything interesting to our insect hotel. Watch this space!