\n Their return follows a decade-long call to reduce mowing during May as part of the annual No Mow May campaign, which encourages people to let grass grow to support wildlife.\n<\/p>\n
\n Geoff Settle, chair of the Warrington Nature Conservation Forum, said: “After 10 years of pleading with the council to end\/reduce grass cutting during the month of May called by Plant life “NO MOW MAY” the mowing crew haven’t cut the along side the Birchwood Expressway.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Guess what, the beautiful wild Bee Orchids are back in numbers.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Yesterday Friday 29th May, I went for a run to the site and I was delighted to discover in the tall grass 97 spikes.\n<\/p>\n
\n “They are difficult to spot at first, but once you get you eye in you will see tens of them.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Following the success of a No Mow May, 97 bee-orchids are blooming alongside the Birchwood Expressway (Image: Warrington Nature Conservation Forum)\n<\/p>\n
\n The Warrington Nature Conservation Forum have extended thanks to Kevin McCready’s mowing team for halting mowing during the No Mow month\n<\/p>\n
\n Mr Settle said: “The teams took some convincing, but I hope if they visit the site and see the orchids they will understand why we are so passionate.”\n<\/p>\n
\n He explained that not just orchids, but a variety of wildflowers and insects not visible from a mower have also benefited.\n<\/p>\n
\n “It was a fantastic feeling to see them back after ten years of being mowed down.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Whatever magic appears has happened again, the right natural environment has been created.”\n<\/p>\n
\n The No Mow May campaign, run by charity Plantlife, encourages individuals, councils and organisations to leave lawns and grassy areas unmown throughout May.\n<\/p>\n
\n This allows wildflowers to bloom, supporting pollinators and other wildlife.\n<\/p>\n
\n Cheshire Wildlife Trust has also supported the campaign, urging people to leave a patch of their garden to grow wild and help improve biodiversity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Their return follows a decade-long call to reduce mowing during May as part of the annual No Mow…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-617877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}