At Diss Railway Station, a new bug hotel has been opened to attract bees and other bugs.

A volunteer at community radio station Park Radio, Howard Whitten, has helps the team looking after the Greater Anglia station and tend the gardens.

He has made the bug hotel out of some wooden frames and covered with a wire mesh filled with natural materials such as pine cones, bamboo pieces, wood, rocks, dry grass, broken terracotta pots, and moss from local woods and gardens.

The hotel was put up to attract insects to help pollinate the trees and plants in the area.

The bug hotel is based in the garden of platform 2 beside the ramp from the car park.

Station adopters play an active role in keeping stations looking good through inventive gardening projects, wildlife-friendly initiatives, creative community art projects, taking part in station ‘health checks’, being the eyes and ears of their station and encouraging links between the station and local communities.

Station adopter Chris Moyse said: “We’ve seen some real success with the project so far. Several bugs have been using the hotel, and passengers are really enjoying the sight of plants on their journeys.

“We hope it will encourage others to put bug hotels in their gardens.”

Alan Neville, customer and community engagement manager at Greater Anglia, said: “We’re tremendously grateful to our fabulous team of rail adopters and the Park Radio volunteers at Diss for the work they do to improve the station for our customers and for the local wildlife too.”

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