Habitat piles?

[Mick Dempsey]

Let’s see if the person who buys my house likes habitat piles, if so they’re in for a treat!

[spandit]

Looks like a good Hugelkultur base

[Mick Dempsey]

7 minutes ago, spandit said:

Looks like a good Hugelkultur base

That would be a big hole.

[peatff]

22 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

That would be a big hole.

Or a small hill

[Mick Dempsey]

7 minutes ago, peatff said:

Or a small hill

That’s what’ll happen, no doubt.

[david lawrence]

should i pile up stuff to awkward to split or getting rotten in one big pile

or have a few small piles

 

favouring one big one now ??

[Ratman]

should i pile up stuff to awkward to split or getting rotten in one big pile
or have a few small piles
 
favouring one big one now ??

Scatter em about, some big some small.

[EcoJoe]

Hi, We have the same problem when intentionally leaving log piles, people just steal them. Considering ground anchors, or sign posts. The stag beetles like vertical stacks like the picture I attached from froglife. Dig them in a bit and then fire chip all over them. 

On 10/10/2018 at 17:49, Yournamehere said:

Yep log piles are the business and anyone who knows what they're talking about gives top points for having one.

Stag beetle numbers have dropped by 90% over recent years and mostly because they spend most of their life in the larval stage in rotting wood and too much rotting wood has been tidied up off the forest floor. I moved one back a bit recently as it had been stacked by the side of a pond-side path and we wanted to enbigenate the path.

Slow worms and newts is what we found.

 

I was once sitting having a bite and a cup of tea when I saw a stag beetle fly in low and crash into an oak tree right by where I was sitting.

That's odd I thought; y'don't see that everyday.

Anyway the stag beetle got up and crashed back into the tree again and again and then down into the leaf litter. And there was the explanation: A female stag beetle up for a bit of action! There was a lipstick like projection out from the back of her abdomen which I imagine was wafting get-it-here pheromones on the breeze - single molecules - and the male stag beetle followed the trail up wind and was guided purely by receptors rather than sight.

 

Someone came along to help recently.

Yep. The first thing they did was burn up all my old log piles and all my stag beetle larvae cos they thought they looked untidy.

 

tldr: log piles good cos stag beetles.

 

Happy Days

Yourn

 

 

Edited May 9, 2019 by EcoJoe

[EcoJoe]

On 10/10/2018 at 17:49, Yournamehere said:

Yep log piles are the business and anyone who knows what they're talking about gives top points for having one.

Stag beetle numbers have dropped by 90% over recent years and mostly because they spend most of their life in the larval stage in rotting wood and too much rotting wood has been tidied up off the forest floor. I moved one back a bit recently as it had been stacked by the side of a pond-side path and we wanted to enbigenate the path.

Slow worms and newts is what we found.

 

I was once sitting having a bite and a cup of tea when I saw a stag beetle fly in low and crash into an oak tree right by where I was sitting.

That's odd I thought; y'don't see that everyday.

Anyway the stag beetle got up and crashed back into the tree again and again and then down into the leaf litter. And there was the explanation: A female stag beetle up for a bit of action! There was a lipstick like projection out from the back of her abdomen which I imagine was wafting get-it-here pheromones on the breeze - single molecules - and the male stag beetle followed the trail up wind and was guided purely by receptors rather than sight.

 

Someone came along to help recently.

Yep. The first thing they did was burn up all my old log piles and all my stag beetle larvae cos they thought they looked untidy.

 

tldr: log piles good cos stag beetles.

 

Happy Days

Yourn