Hedgehogs
The hedgehog is a familiar inhabitant of town parks, garden, cemeteries, railway banks and waste ground.
Suburban gardens in particular provide the hedgehog with an ideal summer and winter homes under compost heaps, behind sheds, below hedges and tucked away in odd corners.
Its small size and nocturnal movements make it inconspicuous, so much so that many people have these spiney creatures in their gardens without even realising it. There is plenty of invertebrate food in gardens suck as worms, slugs and beetles. They are the cheapest and most effective form of pest control because they prefer to eat those animals that gardeners are glad to be rid of - beetles, slugs, worms and caterpillars. Hedgehogs also eat millipedes which many predators find distasteful and snap up earwigs when they can.
