Red Lodge Heath facts for kids
| Site of Special Scientific Interest | |
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| Area of Search | Suffolk |
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| Interest | Biological |
| Area | 20.8 hectares |
| Notification | 2005 |
| Location map | Magic Map |
Red Lodge Heath is a 20.8 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Red Lodge in Suffolk.
Habitats on this site are chalk grassland, dry acid grassland, lichen heath, wet woodland and ponds. It has nationally important assemblages of rare plants and invertebrates, including a nationally important population of the nationally rare five-banded tailed digger wasp (Cerceris quinquefasciata), also commonly known as the Five-banded weevil-wasp. It has several other invertebrate species on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, and plants include the nationally rare smooth rupturewort.
There is access to the site from Turnpike Road.
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