Deadwood habitats are often lost from our landscapes. Snags are cut down for safety reasons, rotting stumps are grubbed up, landscapes are tidied and trimmed. A range of insects and other animals may also disappear with the removal of deadwood, often species that have a particular need for deadwood at some stage in their life cycle. Recently, we shared an article and some photos about insect hotels, wonderful structures that can put some chaos back into gardens and parks (at least in an acceptably tidy manner!). Do you want to push the envelop of insect homes a bit more? Check out this garden structure for deadwood spotted while in England recently. It is on a garden near Colchester, Britains oldest recorded town and the center of a major stag beetle population. Stag beetles live in rotting logs as larvae. Luckily, local people are excited about stag beetles and the city council has a program to promote their conservation, including building larval habitat.
Posted on: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 13:45:00 +0000
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