‘Bee Bus Stops’ coming to Derby

Around half of Derby’s 90 new shelters will feature Living Roofs – nicknamed ‘Bee Bus Stops’ – designed to enhance biodiversity, at no cost to taxpayers or the Council. Each one is planted with a carefully selected mix of native wildflowers and sedum plants – ideal food sources and habitats for a wide variety of pollinating insects including solitary bees, hoverflies and butterflies, whose numbers have been in decline in recent years. As well as being visually attractive, the Living Roofs also benefit the environment by absorbing rainwater falling on…

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