How can a log pile in your garden be a refuge for wildlife?

Make your backyard extra enticing to wildlife with a number of log piles, she says. Clare Wilsonand you’ll check out some beautiful bugs

With Clare Wilson

ONE of my gardening chores proper now’s pruning bushes and shrubs throughout a leafless time of yr. As a substitute of throwing out branches, I’ll construct up a number of small log piles to assist make my plot a extra enticing place for native wildlife.

As useless wooden decays, it turns into a meals supply or house for hundreds of species, together with mosses, lichens, fungi, bugs, flies, flying flies, spiders, moths, hornets, and bees. These in flip will likely be meals for bigger animals resembling birds, lizards, frogs, toads and small mammals…