**** Adult supervision of children is essential on the path appraching this cache from No 2. There is a steep drop into water on the footpath corner - you can hear falling water on approach ****
Bedelands Farm Local Nature Reserve is situated on the northern edge of Burgess Hill and access to it is from the playing fields next to Burgess Hill Town Football Club, off Maple Drive, and from Coopers Close. Other entry points are from a footpath near Valebridge Close and from beneath the viaduct in Valebridge Road. The site is owned by Mid Sussex District Council and the Friends of Burgess Hill Green Circle Network help to maintain it. The Nature Reserve consists of ancient meadows, woodland, hedgerows and ponds.
Twelve facts about bugs - how many of these are inside the cache container?!
- Fruit flies were the first living creatures to be sent into space.
- Dragonflies have been on earth for 300 million years, and Grasshoppers existed before dinosaurs!
- The stag beetle is the largest species of insect to be found in the UK.
- Caterpillars have 12 eyes!
- One dung beetle can drag 1,141 times its weight – that’s like a human pulling six double-decker buses!
- A single honeybee colony can produce around 100kg of honey each year – that’s 220 jars!
- There are 36 species of dragonfly found in the UK.
- Bulldog ants can leap seven times the length of their bodies!
- Mosquitos are attracted to smelly feet!
- Butterflies taste with their feet.
- A ladybird might eat more than 5,000 insects in its lifetime
- Greater water boatmen breathe through their bottom!
This is an official *Caching With Kids* geocache - recommended for families with children to find together. See our Facebook Page!
This group fo caches requires puddle suits and wellies in Winter, and use your own judgement other times of the year. It was particular boggy in Jan 2020, when maintenance was carried out.