Time and again, hedgehogs sleeping under hedges or bushes are mutilated or even killed by mowing equipment such as string mowers. Hedgehogs do not react to the noise of mowing equipment by fleeing, but instead curl up even more in the face of danger.
Lawn robots that work unattended also pose a danger to hedgehogs that roam the garden sniffing around at dusk or at night. They are usually hit in the face by the lawn robots and seriously injured.
The infopic shows you what you can watch out for and how you can help hedgehogs:
- Mow tall grass with care.
- Do not let the robot lawn mower run at dusk or at night.
Small hedgehogs sometimes forage during the day.
- Do not leave robotic lawn mowers running around unattended and avoid robotic lawn mowers with
with fixed blades:
https://igelzentrum.ch/images/Doc/rasenroboter-im-test.pdf