The Insect Hotel & Beetle Bank
The Insect Hotel was created in 2007/08 as a place to leave untidy, comprising a variety of wood, stone, tiles, logs, bricks and rubble to create a warren of mini-spaces into which insects could find shelter and find a safe space to hibernate.
Apart from planting a few additional ferns amongst the 'rubble' and the more recent addition of the Bumblebee Nest, it has largely been left untouched since its 'creation'.
Like many of the wildlife habitats created for wildlife in the garden, the insect hotel is not disturbed to see what creatures are making use of the habitat. So for the time being at least, so there are no survey records of it.
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| The Insect Hotel is located under the north face of the maple hedgerow. |
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| It consists of vertical and horizontal logs, planks, sticks and stone piles with some ferns added. |
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| A horizontal log pile, a beetle bank, roof tiles, dead leaves and several planted ferns. |
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| Vertically buried elm logs, an old wooden wheel barrow and a stone beetle bank. |
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| Vertically buried elm logs stand in front of the man-made Bumblebee nest (awaiting tenants). |