Research reveals that making a city garden more insect-friendly can have a bigger positive effect on nature compared to a country garden. Gardeners in urban areas saw a 71% increase in butterfly species after improving their gardens, while rural and suburban areas saw a 55% increase. Experts attribute the results to the long distances insects can travel and the warmer temperatures in cities.
Study finds you 'get a better return on your investment' by making a city garden more insect-friendly than you do a country garden. Homes surrounded by traffic fumes and miles of asphalt may seem like the least auspicious places to cultivate a garden to give nature a helping hand.
How will wildlife be able to even find you if you live in the middle of a concrete desert? But would-be town and city centre horticulturalists can take inspiration from research which shows that they have the power to make a much bigger difference to nature than their counterparts in the countryside and in leafy suburbs. The study looked at what happened when gardeners in different areas set out to improve the habitat offered by their gardens, by adding more insect-friendly plants. In rural or suburban areas, turning a garden from “low” to “high” quality led to a satisfactory 55 per cent increase in the number of species of butterflies present. But gardeners living in harsher urban environments who went through the same process did even better, and saw a 71 per cent rise in butterfly species. “You’re getting a better return for your investment in urban areas – seeing a steeper improvement in an urban area than in the countryside,” he said. Butterfly experts have pointed the long distances that the insects can travel and the fact that some species prefer the warmer temperatures in cities, as factors that help to explain the results
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