Site of Special Scientific Interest | |
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Location | Suffolk |
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Grid reference | TL 697 700 [1] |
Interest | Biological |
Area | 20.8 hectares [1] |
Notification | 2005 [1] |
Location map | Magic Map |
Red Lodge Heath is a 20.8-hectare (51-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Red Lodge in Suffolk. [1] [2]
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. [3] It has several other invertebrate species on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, and plants include the nationally rare smooth rupturewort. [4]
There is access to the site from Turnpike Road.