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How can you enhance biodiversity in your outdoor space or landscape?! Adding long grass and wildflowers is a simple and effective way to boost invertebrate diversity and abundance. 🌼 Including various forms of deadwood can also create habitat for a range of different insects. 🦋 You can either use native wildflower seed to add some colour and forage for pollinators or simply strip the topsoil or scarify the surface to allow existing seeds to germinate on the bare soil. 🌸 Why not commit to creating small pockets of long grass areas or wildflower areas on your land in 2025? #habitat #landscape #biodiversity #ecology #deadwood #invertebrates #biomimicry #gardendesign #nature #ecology #BNG #biodiversitynetgain #naturalcapital #greenspaces #parks #masonbees #wildflowers #flowers #polliantors #naturebasedsolutions #meadows

Did you know that most the UK's 270 species of bee are solitary! 🐝 Dozens of these species will nest inside small cavities where they complete their fascinating life cycles. 🤔 What's more, you can even tell which type of bee is nesting inside a cavity by looking at the nesting material that has been used to cap the front of the cavity. 🧐 You can support these critically important pollinators by providing the right nesting habitat for them. 🌼 Drill holes of different sizes in deadwood or timber and secure it in a south facing sunny position at least a meter off the ground. ⚒️ Or install some of our Bee Posts which are designed to be robust, aesthetically pleasing and functional for a wide range of invertebrates. 🐞 For more information or to collaborate, get in touch! 📧 #beepost #solitarybees #habitat #landscape #biodiversity #ecology #deadwood #invertebrates #biomimicry #gardendesign #nature #ecology #BNG #biodiversitynetgain #naturalcapital #greenspaces #parks #masonbees #naturebasedsolutions

Sports facilities for biodiversity! ⚽ 🐝 Our urban spaces including sporting facilities have huge potential to support biodiversity in our towns and cities. 🏙️ Installing habitat structures such as our Bee Posts can providing nesting habitat for solitary bees, solitary wasps and many other invertebrates. 🐛 🐌 Last year we supplied 11 bee posts to Manchester City Football Club which were used by a wide range of solitary bees within weeks of installation. ⚽ This year we supplied 15 bee posts to Liverpool Football Club for installation across all of their sites. These were also utilised within weeks of installation by mason bees and leafcutter bees. ⚽ Land owners and managers responsible for sports facilities can create meaningful habitat on their sites through changes to day-to-day maintenance practices combined with the addition of habitat structures such as bee posts. Get in touch to collaborate 📧 #biodiversity #sportpositive #sustainablesport #ecology #nature #naturebasedsolutions #biodiversitynetgain #BNG #NBS #naturepostive #insects #pollinators #bees #solitarybees #habitat

Storm Damage for Biodiversity! ⚡ ⛈️ The recent storm damage to trees across the country is an opportunity for land owners and managers to boost biodiversity of many species on their land. ✅ Thousands of species depend on dead and decaying wood either directly or indirectly. 🪲 But we are often quick to clean up storm damage and remove it from site. 🧹 🚒 The best result for biodiversity is to leave the material in situ or move it aside into a location where it can begin the process of decay. 🪵 Over the decades, a wide variety of species will exploit the deadwood for habitat and nutrients. From beetles, to fungi and even solitary bees and wasps. 🍄 Eventually the deadwood will become so soft that even certain species of worms and ants will take up residence inside the well rotted timber. 🐌 Enhancing biodiversity is about understanding natural systems 🌎 Storm damaged trees are an opportunity to capitalist on natural habitat creation. 💡 Don't waste it! ♻️ #stormdarragh #trees #arboriculture #storm #biodiversity #deadwood #insects #invertebrates #habitat #biodiversitynetgain #BNG

STORM DAMAGE FOR BIODIVERSITY! 🪵 🌬️ ⚡ How can you utilise storm damaged trees to boost biodiversity in your landscape or outdoor space? Thousands of species rely on deadwood on some shape or form. 🪲 🐛 But we often clear this critical habitat away, removing it for firewood, biomass or creating woodchip with it 👎🏼 By leaving this material in situ and allowing it to decay SLOWLY over years and decades. We can be driving biodiversity for many years for almost no effort whatsoever! #stormdarragh #storm #trees #deadwood #biodiversity #bng #habitat #biodiversitynetgain #naturebasedsolutions #insects #invertebrates

We checked in on some bee posts recently installed by the team from idverde UK in the London Borough of Merton. Whilst visiting site, company director Dominic Knower was impressed by the variety of deadwood features surrounding the bee post which will compliment the invertebrate community in this London park. Credit to Zsolt Takacs and partners at the council for making these habitat improvements. #invertebrates #insects #bees #beepost #bughotel #insecthotel #beehotel #ecology #nature #habitat #biodiversity #biodiversitynetgain #naturebasedsolutions

New product alert! 🚨 You might know them as insect hotels or bug hotels but we prefer to call them invertebrate towers. 🐝 🐛 Cheap bug hotels are usually poorly made and often ineffective as they are produced and sold by companies which don't know much about invertebrate ecology. 👎🏼 At Niche we apply a sound understanding of our target species to create functional and robust habitat structures for supporting invertebrates. Get in touch to collaborate! ✉️

Flashback to this year's Royal Horticultural Society Tatton Flower Show where Niche supported two show gardens with invertebrate habitat in the form of timber bee posts. The first garden was the enormous 'The 1804 Garden' by carolyn hardern & Jon Jarvis MCIHort with the stunning central water feature sculpture, surrounded by both ornamental and wildflower planting (including stands of Niche bee posts). The second was the beautiful long border garden 'Small Actions, Big Impact' by Olivia Copley, a very talented young designer. Her small garden is a great example of how typical small garden can really make a difference for nature, for the environment, for people and look incredible at the same time.

Add habitat and structure to your landscapes using our bee posts. 🐝 They are big enough to draw attention to the biodiversity work happening in your landscape or outdoor space. 😲 Made from British-grown Douglas Fir. 🌲 Created here in the UK through a supply chain of small businesses. 👨🔧 Get in touch to collaborate. 📧

Creating habitat for invertebrates can be as easy as installing a bee post. And a bee post isn't just for bees! A wide range of invertebrates will use these structures. Check out some of the species we observed using them this year. #ecology #biodiversity #habitat #nature #naturebasedsolutions #nbs #biodiversitynetgain #BNG #insects #bees #pollinators #invertebrates #bughotels #insecthotels #beehotels