• Regarding tackling aphids etc.

    We built some of these in my old place, okay nothing as cool or shop bought, generally a stack of bamboo or pine cones. And whilst it won’t eradicate all pests, it does provide a home for pollinators and predators. I will be making a few in my latest garden.

    https://youtu.be/Qpau_m2OCaE

    Also while I was hacking away at the overgrown end I came across an abandoned wasp nest no bigger than a cricket ball. It was hanging in the bushes, beautiful delicate layer chambers like a very small grey paper lantern.

  • Brilliant. I was gifted a beautiful but useless bug hotel that's been ideally sitting on the back wall. Will give this a go with the young fella.

  • We built some of these in my old place.

    I hear you've been involved in refurbishing one in Westminster. :)

    That was a completely unnecessary slur on bugs, of course.

  • Thanks for sharing, I built two of these yesterday out of spare wood in the garage and spare fence panels.
    Looks okay but takes a loooong time and more materials than you expect to fill it up

  • Bug hotels, aren't they more for bugs to over-winter in rather than all year round usage? They often appear to be empty unless you're looking during hibernation. Tubes definitely appear more useful to bugs than anything else.

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