Red Lodge Heath

Red Lodge Heath is a 20.8-hectare (51-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Red Lodge in Suffolk.^[1][2]

Red Lodge Heath

Site of Special Scientific Interest
Location	Suffolk
Grid reference	TL 697 700[1]
Interest	Biological
Area	20.8 hectares[1]
Notification	2005[1]
Location map	Magic Map

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.