Following a suggestion made by Britain in Bloom judges when inspecting the Sensory Garden in 2022, the Friends decided that a valuable feature to improve biodiversity in Astley Park would be a specially built home for insects and other ‘creepy crawlies’.
The following year Maurice Houghton, our Vice-chair at the time, took on the task of building the Bug House and decided to mainly construct it out of old wooden pallets.
Pupils from St. Georges C of E Primary School collected old canes, fir cones and bricks etc. and stuffed these materials in the open voids in the Bug House structure. A wire mesh front was then added to hold all the contents in place. A substantial structure was created approximately 1 metre wide and 1.5 metres high. More a bug mansion than just a house!
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