🦋 Stay Safe 🦋

 

The Oak Processionary Moth (OPM) is a pest that lives in oak trees. Their tiny hairs get blown about and cause irritation. It is important that we all know what to look out for and keep our dogs, children and ourselves safe.

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Please follow the link and stay safe!

 

A few tips: How to identify it:

1. They live in oak trees. You can tell these apart by their specific leaf shape.

2. They move in nose to tail processions and often cluster together.

3. They build white, silken webbing trails or nests in a teardrop or dome shape on the trunks and branches.

4. The nests can become discoloured.

 

Please don’t try to remove the nests yourself. Rather, report them to the forestry commission using the tree alert form (https://treealert.forestresearch.gov.uk/) or email opm@forestrycommission.gov.uk or call 0300 067 4442 Visit https://www.gov.uk/guidance/managing-oak-processionary-moth-in-england for more advice.

 

We have been very busy over the last few days.

 

🦋 1st Willington Cubs came down to Cardales meadow and Cotes Close bird sanctuary to move a lot of branches This helped prepare for volunteers from Price Waterhouse Coopers to build a dead hedge around the butterfly bank in Cardales and a bee hotel in the wildlife area. 🐝 

 

A fantastic couple of evenings with a group of really hard working young volunteers! 🌺 

 

Well done to all involved! 🌳

 

As mentioned above on Friday we were helped by a group of corporate volunteers from Price Waterhouse Coopers who not only started but completed an important conservation project for us.

The volunteers completed dead a hedge fence around the butterfly bank  located in the wildflower meadow.  

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The day was organised for us by the southderbyshire volunteer force.  To quote from their publicity "if you are looking for corporate volunteering opportunities for yourself or your employees and want to make a difference in your local community contact us by email volunteer@sdcvs.org.uk for more information or alternatively visit our website www.volunteersouthderbyshire.org for more information on Employer Supported Volunteering."

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They certainly made a big difference in Cardales for which we are very grateful

          

   

 

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The Big Help Out day

 

Despite the weather, we braved the storm and set up our Footpaths stand on Monday at the bottom of Crow Park way just before the A50 bridge. We met a lot of interesting people and want to thank all those who made donations and/or stopped to speak to us in the rain. 

 

 

 

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