Bug Hotel
Insects and other minibeasts need safe spaces to shelter, hide from predators and raise their young. You can help them by building a bug hotel in your garden or outside area.
Task
Build your very own bug hotel (also known as a wildlife hotel or stack). It could shelter anything from hedgehogs to toads, solitary bees to bumblebees, and ladybirds to woodlice.
Create a multi-storey hotel that’s full of all sorts of natural materials, providing hidey-holes for creatures galore.
Resources
- Old wooden pallets
- Strips of wood
- Straw
- Moss
- Dry leaves
- Woodchips
- Old terracotta pots
- Old roofing tiles
- Logs and twigs
- Rotting wood
- Spare rolls of turf
- Dry leaves
- Bark
- Hollow plant stems
- Straw and hay
- Bamboo canes
Instructions
- Choose a good spot for your insect home
- Create a structure with pallets.
- Fill in the gaps with other materials.
- Add a ‘roof’
