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How Can I Increase Local Biodiversity ?

Make your Garden a Wildlife Haven

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Wild Flowers

If you have access to a Garden, Growing Containers or a Window Box you can plant native British wild flowers to increase the food sources for pollinators.  It could be a wild flower bed, a wild flow strip in the lawn, or wild flower container.  See pictures below of some wild flowers growing in the Parish. Find out how to plant wild flowers here.

Let the Grass Grow

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Create a Home for Wild Life

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​Create a bug hotel to provide hidey-holes for creatures galore. Building a bug hotel (also known as a wildlife hotel or stack) in your garden can provide a safe hideaway for wildlife and help make use of your garden waste. A well-built hotel can shelter anything from hedgehogs to toads, solitary bees to bumblebees, and ladybirds to woodlice. You can build your bug hotel at any time of year, but you might have the most natural materials such as straw, dry grass and hollow plant stems in autumn. 

More details on Bug_Hotel 

More Details on Insect_Hotel

Join a Local Wildlife Organisation

Devon Wildlife Trust
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  • Out & About
    • Getting Here
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    • Our Beaches >
      • Thurlestone Rock and Beach Geology
    • Visual Landscapes
    • Recommended Walks
    • Eat & Drink in our Parish
    • On the Water
    • Annual Events
    • Days Out - Attractions
    • Historic Attractions
  • Facilities
    • Thurlestone Post Office & Stores
    • Bantham Stores & Coffee Shop
    • Village Inn (Thurlestone)
    • Sloop Inn (Bantham)
    • Schools
    • Thurlestone Golf Club
    • Thurlestone Hotel
    • Thurlestone Phone Box
    • Buckland Phone Box
  • Parish Hall
    • Welcome to the Parish Hall
    • HIRING PARISH HALL
    • HALL HIRING RATES
    • MAIN HALL LIGHTING >
      • Extra General Hall Lighting
    • MAIN HALL AUDIO / VISUAL EQUIPMENT >
      • Visual Display Projector
      • Multi Media Audio Player
    • Main Hall & Layout
    • Meeting (Yeo) Room >
      • Connecting to Yeo Room Visual Display
    • Kitchen
    • Equipment
    • Events Gallery
    • Location
    • PH Committee Minutes Archive >
      • Annual Meeting May 2025
    • 2022 Parish Hall Activity Census Results
  • Church
    • Welcome to All Saints' Church
    • Key Contacts
    • Church Services >
      • Services this Month
      • Recorded Services
    • Daily Devotional Resources
    • Church Events Diary
    • Accessing the Church and Church Meeting Room
    • Baptisms
    • Weddings
    • Funerals
    • The Church Building
    • Church Meeting Room
    • Funding Thurlestone Parish Church
    • Friends of Thurlestone Church
    • Contact the Church
    • Home Group
    • Charities Supported
    • Church Building Internals - Possibilities
  • General Info
    • Parking & Toilet Facilities
    • Medical Help >
      • DEFIBRILLATORS (Cardiac Arrest)
    • Local Transport
    • Weather/Tides/Surf/Sunset
    • Marine Traffic Map
    • Waste Collection & Recycling
    • Bulk Oil Scheme
    • Emergency Numbers
    • Useful Links
    • How to Avoid Scams
  • Parish Council
    • Welcome to the Council
  • Parish History
    • History of Thurlestone
    • Thurlestone's Timeline
    • History of Bantham
    • History of Buckland
    • Bantham & Buckland's Timeline
    • Thurlestone's Past in Postcards
    • Parish of Thurlestone Society - History & Media Files
    • Historical Maps of our area
    • Devonshire Historical Map of 1765
    • World War 1