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Insect Hotel

Insect Hotel
©: Werner Fellner - Fotolia

Because there are fewer and fewer hedges, old trees, sheds and other untouched nature, many useful insects have a problem in the winter: they hardly can find suitable places such as beetle holes in rotten trees to wait out the cold season. With an insect hotel in your own garden, everyone can help insects during winter.

Basically, you can use everything possible to give insects a safe haven. These includes insect woods with drilled in passages, hollow wood bricks, whose cavities are lined with hay, grass or reeds.

The individual elements can be assembled in a house. You will need two long wood panels for the side walls and some shorter ones for the individual floors of the insect hotels. These are fastened with bolts in angles to the side walls. A small roof, which is either nailed or screwed together to protect the insects from the rain.

Now place your insect hotels at a dry and sheltered place. Depending on which side of the planet you live, use a south-facing place where your little hotel will get a little sun, even in winter.