Insect hotel - a fancy name for a bug house
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (382440)
Rockingham, Australia
April 23, 2023 4:56am CST
Thanks to @DaddyEvil for the inspiration for this post. I mentioned insect hotels or bug houses on my post about nesting boxes for birds.
Bug houses are man-made structures aimed at attracting insects and bugs that may be looking for a home. You can used wooden pallets, hollow pieces of wood of different sizes, straw, loose bark, even pieces of stone. You can also purchase a bug house if you don’t want to/can’t build your own.
It's just another way we can give a helping hand to Mother Nature.
Photos courtesy: Jirí Sedlácek, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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@DaddyEvil (174682)
• United States
23 Apr 23
Thank you for the mention. Uhm... why would someone purposely make a house for bugs? 
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@DaddyEvil (174682)
• United States
23 Apr 23
@JudyEv Uh huh... and how do you know bad bugs won't take up residence in the bug house, though?
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@JudyEv (382440)
• Rockingham, Australia
23 Apr 23
@DaddyEvil You don't. You just have to hope that the Housing Committee screen out the bad bugs.
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@Juliaacv (56374)
• Canada
23 Apr 23
@JudyEv I agree, there are many good insects.
Mint is also another good plant to have around a garden if you have difficulty with rabbits coming to visit and munch. We have used that plant successfully in the past. We no longer have a vegetable garden to worry about.
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@ptrikha_2 (49775)
• India
23 Apr 23
That is something very interesting ! This particular one seems to be somewhere in Poland or the vicinity.
Not sure if this is something that people make or buy somewhere nearby.
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@arunima25 (93194)
• Bangalore, India
23 Apr 23
That's a fascinating name. . I can't see the photo here. Seems like it is not properly uploaded.
. I can't see the photo here. Seems like it is not properly uploaded.2 people like this
@arunima25 (93194)
• Bangalore, India
24 Apr 23
@JudyEv And this one was deceptive. It looked related to the post
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@BarBaraPrz (51838)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
23 Apr 23
Interesting "face" in that one brick (or whatever it is) in the middle of the bottom tier.
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@BarBaraPrz (51838)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
23 Apr 23
@JudyEv More like the face you'd make if a bug decided to live in your nose.
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@allen0187 (59827)
• Philippines
23 Apr 23
Thanks for sharing this information.
Always been interested in building bug houses in the province.
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@JudyEv (382440)
• Rockingham, Australia
23 Apr 23
The only tricky bit might be the frame but you could a large diameter pipe. They can be any shape and any size as long as there are 'bits' where insects can live. If you go to Wikimedia Commons and type in 'insect hotel' you will see dozens of different shapes and sizes.
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@allknowing (153529)
• India
24 Apr 23
Never heard of anyone protecting bugs and providing them a residence
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@wolfgirl569 (135966)
• Marion, Ohio
23 Apr 23
I don't want bugs . But that is cute
. But that is cute2 people like this
@RasmaSandra (98106)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
23 Apr 23
That sounds like just the thing to be able to enjoy the great outdoors. If I still had my garden in Latvia this ould be something I might consider building,
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@Beestring (15372)
• Hong Kong
23 Apr 23
@JudyEv I'm not sure if we have this in the gardens here. I haven't seen one myself.
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@LindaOHio (222726)
• United States
29 Apr 23
@JudyEv It gives me the creepy crawlies to think of all those bugs.
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