[{"id":243161301185,"handle":"bugs-beetles-insects","updated_at":"2025-02-21T14:02:02+00:00","published_at":"2021-01-28T09:39:43+00:00","sort_order":"manual","template_suffix":"","published_scope":"web","title":"Bugs, Beetles \u0026 Insects","body_html":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWe share our gardens with many creatures. Knowing which are the helpful ones, ensures gardeners give them a home. Some of these beneficial insects help by eating the pests that damage plants and crops. Others perform the vital task of breaking down decaying material. Also, pollinating insects help ensure colourful flowers keep blooming year after year and that you have a bountiful harvest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIt’s always best to provide beneficial insects, bugs and beetles with water, food and shelter. Your garden will become an inviting home for them. Many of these beneficial insects will need alternative food sources such as pollen and nectar. As they often appear in the garden before the pests, they need something to eat whilst they wait. Attracting a wide range of insects and getting them to stay in your garden can be achieved by offering a diversity of early blooming plants and the addition of a beneficial insect home or habitat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eChildren love bugs and mini beasts, and their happy investigation is to be encouraged. Wildlife World provides all kinds of interactive insect habitats, field guides, bug boards. And finally, insect tubes to make their own minibeast homes.\u003c\/p\u003e","image":{"created_at":"2021-02-15T11:24:48+00:00","alt":null,"width":900,"height":934,"src":"\/\/wildlifeworldtrade.co.uk\/cdn\/shop\/collections\/bugs_beetles_insects_900x_230c2dc8-920c-406b-a1fe-053bafc486a3.jpg?v=1613388288"}},{"id":243186925761,"handle":"education-range","updated_at":"2025-02-21T12:25:15+00:00","published_at":"2021-01-28T11:15:23+00:00","sort_order":"best-selling","template_suffix":"","published_scope":"web","title":"Education Range","body_html":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIt’s never too early to introduce children to the natural environment and the wildlife that lives there, with abundant opportunities to have fun outdoors, whatever the weather. Many adults have fond memories from their childhoods of climbing trees and getting muddy in the British countryside.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAccording to research by the RSPB and National Trust, these are memories many of today’s children aren’t living. Only 1 in 5 children have a connection to nature, and time spent playing outdoors has halved in just one generation. The value of a connection to nature during childhood has a range of benefits, including; health, education, community and environment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWith the importance of a natural childhood in mind, Wildlife World has developed the mini bug collection, designed specially to educate and entertain children in their gardens or outdoor areas. Moreover, to help create another generation of childhood memories.\u003c\/p\u003e","image":{"created_at":"2021-02-15T11:05:24+00:00","alt":"Wildlife World Crittacabin","width":1500,"height":1500,"src":"\/\/wildlifeworldtrade.co.uk\/cdn\/shop\/collections\/Childrens_Activities.jpg?v=1617095284"}},{"id":243162513601,"handle":"ladybirds-lacewings","updated_at":"2025-02-21T12:25:16+00:00","published_at":"2021-01-28T09:50:53+00:00","sort_order":"manual","template_suffix":"","published_scope":"web","title":"Ladybirds \u0026 Lacewings","body_html":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLadybirds and lacewing larvae are the gardener’s friend. They like nothing more than to eat up lots of plants destroying aphids and the mould enticing ‘honeydew’ that aphids leave behind—providing natural protection for both our vegetable crops and flower beds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA ladybird’s habitat in nature tends to be small shrubs, trees and grass. Most species can be found everywhere in the U.K as long as there is an adequate food supply. Sheltered areas such as dense vegetation, under tree bark and in garden sheds are prime locations for hibernation. They are often found, in these sites, huddled together in large groups to over-winter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLadybirds require a source of pollen for food as they do not just feed on aphids. Planting flowers and herbs such as geraniums, marigolds, dill, parsley, and thyme will help attract and provide the ladybirds in your garden. A good practice is to place a ladybird house or habitat, much like the ones below, within a flower bed. Will act as a shelter source during summer months and suitable lodgings for hibernation ready for the following year.\u003c\/p\u003e","image":{"created_at":"2021-02-15T11:20:25+00:00","alt":null,"width":900,"height":934,"src":"\/\/wildlifeworldtrade.co.uk\/cdn\/shop\/collections\/ladybirds_900x_cf84b396-708f-4653-bfe6-b5f23e555fa4.jpg?v=1613388025"}}]
Our handmade bespoke wildlife products can take up to six weeks to build and deliver if we don't have them in stock.
Designed to support the teaching of minibeasts in the primary school curriculum, this impressive habitat provides a home for pollinators, beneficial insects, mini mammals and hedgehogs. A stunning addition to any school wildlife garden.
This giant educational triangular habitat stands a metre tall. Constructed from FSC-certified timber with lots of varied habitats within the structure. Starting at the base we have a Hogitat or hedgehog shelter. This provides hedgehogs with protection from predators and garden tools such as strimmers, mowers and forks. The three different types of log habitats are good for beneficial insects such as ladybirds, and lacewings and also pollinators such as solitary bees.
The small specially designed holes are ideal for solitary bee occupation
The larger holes will provide homes for additional beneficial insects
The slot logs are good for lacewings and provide crevices for overwintering insects
The Crittacabin is finished with the addition of natural pine cones and re-cycled plastic fixing points on the reverse to allow the habitat to be secured in place for child safety and school security.
We reserve the right to occasionally change the constituent products that are used to make up this product depending on availability. The image is for guidance only.
Buglife is the only organisation in Europe devoted to the conservation of all invertebrates. We’re actively working to save our rarest little animals, everything from bees to beetles, worms to woodlice and jumping spiders to jellyfish.
Invertebrates are vitally important to a healthy planet – humans and other life forms could not survive without them. The food we eat, the fish we catch, the birds we see, the flowers we smell and the hum of life we hear, simply would not exist without bugs. Invertebrates are facing an extinction crisis. The Bugs Matter survey, supported by a nationwide network of volunteer citizen scientists who record insect splats on their vehicle number plates after journeys, suggests that the abundance of flying insects in our countryside has dramatically fallen. Since the first reference survey in 2004, analysis of records from nearly 26,500 journeys across the UK shows a continuing decrease in bug splats, with the number of splats in 2023 decreasing by 78% nationwide.
The Bugs Matter findings are similar to other studies which have documented declines in insect abundance from around the world. Human activities continue to have a huge impact on nature – habitat loss and damage, pesticide use, pollution, and climate change all contribute to the decline in insects. Society must heed the warning signs of ecological collapse, and take urgent action to restore nature.
In order to reverse these catastrophic declines we need to work together to this end we have worked with Wildlife World to help develop approved ranges of bug homes that can make a difference. Small steps can have a huge impact if they all fall at the same time. We can stop, and reverse the global declines in our insects, but only if everyone pulls together to do their part.
