and The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
Earlier this year we started creating a bug friendly area in our garden and this week we did a little more work on it.Natural England have a downloadable leaflet “Minibeasts in your garden” which is very helpful. Flowers, places to hide, hot spots and dead stuff are what insects need and the leaflet explains each of these headings in more detail. It is a small L shaped space but we are managing to fit a lot in. This is what we have done so far:
I moved two old insect friendly logs to the new spot. We spotted a few inhabitants on one of the logs. We add some fresher logs from a tree we trimmed.
The corner already has a few slates and we added rocks for more places to hide. We placed a flat one in the sun for butterflies.
Our insect box is now hanging up.
I moved some flowers, we have already sown butterfly and bee friendly flower seeds, and have also let the “weeds” and grass grow.
Maybe not so friendly for the bugs but we made a toad home after finding a toad in the garden. We can’t find him now but are hoping he will return.
We have a small pot dish pool with a stone. Luath loves refreshing the water.
This week we saw some bees enjoying the flowers and a frog.
(Luath is 29 months)
shared with eco kids and country kids from Coombe Mill
Loving all the insect and bug homes in the garden. We have toads hopping around too and the children get so excited to spot them. We have a snail and slug home, perhaps a toad home will be next. Thank you for popping over to share on Country Kids.
ReplyDeleteHadn't thought about a slug/snail home - as long as they stay off the veggies we might make them one!
DeleteThis is great. My wee man is really getting into bug hunting now and though not a fan of creepy crawlies myself I am trying to encourage his interest. So nice to have it on your doorstep!
ReplyDeletesome of the bugs too give me the creeps too
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