Multi-storey wildlife hotel
- May 5, 2015
- 1 min read
Just finished hanging our new self-designed, self-made deluxe three storey high wildlife residence - an open-fronted robin box sandwiched by bug quarters. It's made from 22mm thick untreated Scottish larch so should be well insulated and durable and the addition of the bug bottom and top should add to the snugness for the baby robins. The bug quarters are stuffed with old bamboo canes cut to size and various straight bits of pruned wood, also cut to size and drilled with an 8mm bit. Hopefully these two sections will provide homes for solitary bees, lacewings and other beneficial insects. I have sited it just over a metre above the ground on a fence partially obsured by cotoneaster and facing north where it is sheltered by our house. The shrubbery around the hotel would ideally be denser but this is as good as we have and will improve over the years.
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