Bees + Moths + Trees + People

Open and Shut
Artists Anne-Marie Culhane and Paul Conneally
Photograph: Christopher Mear

Now gearing up for Fruit Routes Summer 2015 'Bees + Moths + Trees + People' on Wednesday 17th June 2015 - it's free!

SUGAR ROPE

'Sugar Rope'

Culhane & Conneally

Loughborough 2014

One of 20 hand platted sugar ropes hung in and around the Barefoot Orchard on Loughborough University's Fruit Route.

The ropes are made from a bed sheet ripped into lengths and hand platted by artist Anne-Marie Culhane with visitors to the Fruit Routes Wild Tea Party in the Barefoot Orchard.

The ropes are then soaked in a hot syrup, a form of 'lepidopterist's sugar' made on site by Paul Conneally, mixing and heating two cans of Mackeson, 1kg of soft brown sugar and black treacle.

In the evening the ropes are hung around the orchard area to attract moths. At the same time light traps are set up to also draw in moths for the gathered people to watch.

Fruit Routes is an ongoing project conceived by Anne-Marie Culhane for Loughborough University Sustainability Team. It now forms part of the wider university EAT YOUR CAMPUS (a Fruit Routes slogan) initiative that won the 2014 Guardian Higher Education Award for Sustainability.

Adrian Russell - Moth Recorder

Adrian Russell - Moth Recorder

Paul Conneally

Loughborough 2014

Adrian Russell is the County Moth Recorder for Leicestershire and Rutland. He is seen here during the Fruit Routes 'Night of Moths' at Loughborough University.

Fruit Routes is an ongoing work conceived by artist and environmental visionary, Anne-Marie Culhane, for and with Loughborough University Sustainability Team which now forms part of the wider EAT YOUR CAMPUS (a Fruit Routes slogan) initiative at the University.

EAT YOUR CAMPUS won the prestigious Guardian Higher Education Award for Sustainability 2014.

A DAY AND NIGHT OF MOTHS & MAPS Fruit Routes Events June 17 2014

Join us for a day and night of moths and maps on the 17th June 2014 at Loughborough University Fruit Routes.

EAT YOUR CAMPUS