How a log pile in your backyard generally is a haven for wildlife

Make your backyard extra attractive for wildlife with just a few log piles, says Clare Wilson, and you could glimpse some gorgeous beetles

By Clare Wilson

ONE of my backyard jobs in the mean time is pruning any timber and woody shrubs at a time of 12 months when there are not any leaves in the way in which. As a substitute of throwing away the branches, I might be creating just a few small log piles to assist make my plot a extra tempting web site for the native wildlife.

As lifeless wooden rots, it turns into a meals supply or house to 1000’s of species, together with mosses, lichens, fungi, beetles, flies, hoverflies, spiders, moths, wasps and bees. In flip, these might be meals for bigger animals like birds, lizards, frogs, toads and small mammals …