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| For this, 170 nest boxes and more than fifty insect huts will be installed.
This project has numerous benefits such as eliminating pests and promoting pollination | The Murcia City Council, through the Department of Urban Development and Modernization of the Administration led by José Guillén, is carrying out an initiative to promote biodiversity in green spaces.
For this, 170 nest boxes and more than fifty insect huts will be installed.This project has numerous benefits such as eliminating pests and promoting pollination.
Specifically, they will serve to house birds such as chickadees, blue tits, kestrels, owls or insects, among others."The gardens and green areas of the municipality are spaces designed so that neighbors can meet and enjoy the outdoors, as well as relax and read in rooms designed for these activities.
We continue working on the creation of spaces where nature is the protagonist and integrate with the thousands of Murcians who enjoy or pass through these green spaces and areas every day, naturalizing the environment ", José Guillén highlighted.In this way, we get space to promote biodiversity so that many of the common species that we can see in our green areas can live.
This is the case, for example, of forest insectivorous birds, which will have wooden boxes designed exclusively for them and where they can carry out their daily lives.Specifically, the nest boxes created and designed for insectivorous birds (chickadees and tits) have been designed allowing cavities to nest, performing an essential task for a commitment to a green and sustainable cycle.These birds consume a large number of insects throughout the year and especially during the breeding season.
According to some studies, a pair of blue tit can contribute about 3,800 insects to the nest in just the 18 days that the young lasts.
But they are not the only ones, a pair of chickadees could bring their young about 1,500 insects, with the annual average, only of these birds, of five kilos of insects a year.The boxes will always be placed in appropriate places in terms of light, location and height, so that the best possible result is achieved in terms of breeding and food.
In the location of these nest boxes, the orientation to the sun and the temperature that this supposes inside them must also be taken into account, always thinking about their future inhabitants.Likewise, the Murcian consistory will also install some 170 nest boxes, others larger, with an entrance opening between eight centimeters wide by nine high for common kestrels and barn owls to nest.
These tasks are being carried out by professionals from STV-Actúa.The use of these spaces allows increasing the availability of breeding places for two of the most common raptor species in urban and peri-urban environments.Hotels for insectsInsects have also been considered, for which they will be placed in trees, at ground level, more than fifty insect hotels for their use and enjoyment.The reason is that they are essential animals in the biological fight of other insects that do constitute pests and annoyances (flies, mosquitoes, aphids, etc.).
They will also serve as shelter for bumblebees and other insects that promote pollination of flowers.These spaces are ideal as a refuge for the hibernation and breeding of numerous species of insects and arachnids.
The central space of the private hotel is closed and practicable, which generates a dark habitat filled with dry plant material, accessible to insects through a series of perforations of different sizes.The insects that most usually sleep and breed in these spaces are bumblebees, solitary bees, lacewings and earwigs.With this action it is achieved:1.
Promote biodiversity2.
Biological control of pests in public gardens3.
Improve pollination4.
Improve the environment, health and quality of life of murcinans5.
Get more naturalized environments
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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