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SNUG BUGS

SNUG BUGS

Insects in Sowerby are feeling ‘snug’ thanks to three hotels built specially for them.

Volunteers from The Clock (pictured) have created three bug hotels at the Sowerby Environmental Space Project – to attract a wide variety of mini-beasts.

They provide spaces in between twigs, bamboo, cobbles, broken pieces of pottery and tiles, for insects to set up home.

And as well as the hotels, 36 bird boxes have been installed to provide safe places for birds to nest; and hedgehogs can travel in and out of the area safely thanks to holes which have been installed along the perimeter fence….

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