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this is absolutely true.. i have a plan for my garden, nothing new or ground breaking but building a gabion wall with cobbles at low level, hotchpot of reclaimed material i have from the garden / house. topped off with a flower bed in perforated steel trays with herbs and scented flowers.. let's call it roof top dining for the residents. bug hotels provide shelter for over winter where predator insects can nest their eggs and larvae.
btw i have tons of copper pipework and steel tube lying around in the garden to chop up into short sections and insert into the gabion wall. I will gather bamboo from local residents and harvest pine cones from nearby parks this autumn to stuff into the steel pipes
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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.