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Calling all Primary School Children we need your help at BugWorld!!!
At BugWorld we do are very best to replicate the habitats pur bugs like to live in. We have to consider what part of the world they are from, what temperature they prefer and what are thier favourite things to eat. This keeps pur bugs happy and healthy!
It is important that we help protect and find homes for our native mini-beasts and all of you can help with this, both at home and at school. We invite your class to create the ultimate bug friendly garden. You don’t need outdoor space to enter this competition just your imaginations!
The winning class will get a free class visit to BugWorld and lunch at What’s Cooking restaurant. To enter please follow the link below and good luck!
http://www.juicefm.com/winprizes?id=969
Here are some useful hints and tips to point you in the right direction!!
Online Hints and Tips:
- Different flowers attract different kinds of insects; you need a variety in your Garden!
- Without Worms it would be hard for your flowers and plants to grow. Well dug soil is the perfect way to keep worms happy; in return they will help the drainage underground.
- A pond or water area will attract new and different types of insects into your garden!
- Not all insects love a tidy garden; some prefer patches of long overgrown grass and messy rock piles.
- A log pile is fantastic place for minibeasts to live and hibernate in.
- Some bee’s live on their own so need a home of their own to live in.
- The ultimate Garden should have the ultimate compost heap.
- Ladybirds use sheltered places like window boxes and plant pots to hide in.
- Butterflies favourite meal is the nectar from flowers but which flowers?
- Bee’s love Honeysuckle and Sunflowers in a garden.
- Did you know Bee’s are in trouble at the moment, providing a Bee home in your garden could really make a difference!
- Make sure your pond has a graduated slope so animals that do not like to live in a pond don’t get trapped!
- Dwarf reed mace and water forget me not flowers grow better by the pond area.
