| Red Lodge Heath | |
| Aos: | Suffolk |
| Interest: | Biological |
| Area: | 20.8 hectares |
| Notifydate: | 2005 |
| Map: | Magic Map |
Red Lodge Heath is a 20.8hectare 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.