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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.
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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.
rhowe is right, a bit of research required, this was how we introduced our daughters to nature 20 years ago, not bug hotels but creating natural habitats for bees, spiders, ladybirds to overwinter. i lost count the number of insects we adopted with pet names and the host of winged critters nesting and feeding too.
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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.