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Pasáiste na bPailneoirí: Pollinator Corridor

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Pasáiste na bPailneoirí Pollinator Corridor  Native Pollinator Corridors Native plant corridors attract pollinators and wildlife to various areas by stretching across lands to connect your piece of native habitat to nearby meadows, wetlands or woodlands. This creates a much larger area for native pollinators to forage, raise young and migrate. Corridors may run along a road, between fields, in hedgerows, on the edge of a forest.  Create a Pollinator Corridor simply by a simple ethos Dont Mow let it Grow Wildlife friendly Shrub Bed Do Not Cut Back! Leave all Flowers and seed heads on Shrubs to Feed Bird During Winter Sign: “Don’t Prune me, Cause I will Feed the Birds this Winter” Examples of great Shrubs would be ;  Leycesteria Pheasant Berry, Cotoneaster, Rosehip, Crategus For a Full list check out http://www.biodiversityireland.ie/projects/irish-pollinator-initiative/all-ireland-pollinator-plan/schools/ Have you made a bee and Bug hotel . here are a few image