European hedgehog
Considered a gardener’s best friend, hedgehogs will happily hoover up insects roaming in vegetable beds. Famously covered in spines, hedgehogs like to eat all sorts of bugs and crunchy beetles.…
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Considered a gardener’s best friend, hedgehogs will happily hoover up insects roaming in vegetable beds. Famously covered in spines, hedgehogs like to eat all sorts of bugs and crunchy beetles.…
Vicky Pudney of Brightlingsea Hedgehog Highway Rescue will talk about the various aspects of the care of rescued hedgehogs.
One of the easiest ways to help your neighbourhood hedgehogs is to create a homemade hedgehog hideaway for your garden.
Darren Parker of the Essex Badger Protection Group shares insights into this mammal, here long before humans and now under threat.
Find out if you have hedgehog visitors by making a hedgehog footprint tunnel.
Create your own hedgehog out of leaves for autumn.
Help hedgehogs get around by making holes and access points in fences and barriers to link up the gardens in your neighbourhood.
By providing safe places for hedgehogs to live, you’re much more likely to see these prickly creatures in your garden.
An illustrated talk by Simon Taylor, UK Marine Mollusca Recorder and President of the Essex Field Club.