Volunteers are invited to help build homes for bees, butterflies and other insects in Riverside Park later this month, as part of a community biodiversity project.
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The Friends of Riverside Park have received funding to create new habitats aimed at boosting biodiversity in the park. The community event takes place at 3pm on Saturday, October 25 in the car park behind Bitterne Park Social Club, Manor Farm Road.
Volunteers will help assemble wire cages known as gabions, filling them with natural materials such as twigs, straw and broken bricks to provide shelter for insects. They will also create log piles and plant pollen-rich flowers ready for next spring.
Helpers are asked to bring gloves, wear suitable clothing, and, if possible, bring along materials such as mulch, leaves, logs, broken pots or bricks to use in the builds.
The group has also announced that a council grant will fund a professional ecologist to carry out a detailed biodiversity survey of the old pitch and putt course north of Woodmill Lane.
A community survey event is expected to follow in May, to help develop a management plan for the area.
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