We recently held a Minibeast Hunt event at a Meadfleet development near Halifax. An amazing turnout of 68 people joined us to search for and identify a variety of insects, spiders and other critters. The event was organised with the Fountainhead Village Residents’ Association, who planned refreshments and entertainment for the local community.
The sunny weather encouraged lots of keen bug explorers to join us at the event, and ensured that insects and other invertebrates were active. Armed with nets, pooters (tubes for sucking insects safely into a container) and ID sheets everybody set out to find as many creepie crawlies as they could. The most common catch on the day were leaf hoppers, but we also saw a number of butterflies, spiders and other invertebrates. We explored a mosaic of habitats including long grass, wildflowers, scrub and trees.
All of the children (and most of the adults not traumatised by spiders) left with a huge smile on their faces, and a Meadfleet goody bag full of items to help them learn even more about creepie-crawlies.
Our Ecology Team love to help our customers, schools and community groups to learn more about the nature and wildlife in their local area, and we are always looking for new groups to work with – please visit our Community page for more information.
About Meadfleet
Meadfleet are a leading sustainable land-adopting management company. We have in-house ecologists with expertise in the BNG metric and are already applying the principles of Biodiversity Net Gain across our existing open space portfolio in England and Wales. Established in 1995, Meadfleet manage over 330 developments and 42,000 residential properties in our portfolio, with a strong balance sheet.
Meadfleet offers management of Biodiversity Net Gain delivery both on a managed development and on offsite areas, either via customer contributions or commuted sums. Our adoption model relieves developers of ongoing liabilities and management costs.
The Meadfleet model removes onerous liabilities from homeowners yet still encourages their input and engagement into the management of their local environment. We are committed to providing an excellent service to residents as demonstrated by our Excellent rating on Trustpilot and are members of The Property Ombudsman Scheme (TPOS), offering customers free, independent redress should they feel it is required. We are happy to work with residents groups and positively encourage the creation of these on the developments we are involved with. We believe this opens an effective two-way dialogue between homeowners and ourselves.
As a land-adopting management company, Meadfleet take long-term responsibility of open space, building customer and community relations and implementing perpetual management and improvement plans. We take a holistic and independent approach to managing areas of open space for the benefit of all residents, biodiversity and the wider environment.