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Mark Livett wrote:The only problem I have with this, other than harbouring cockroaches, rats or snakes, is that I read something somewhere that if you don't change out the hollow bamboo bits every year then mites and parasites build up and can ultimately kill off the bugs you are trying to encourage.
Lewis Brown wrote:One thing I don't understand about this hotel, or even a beetle bank, is what guarantees you get good bugs?
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Jesse Glessner wrote:I'm just wondering how many of those plants will come back in Spring now!
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Seth Peterson wrote:
those are some great photos and ideas. I'm thinking of turning my 50 ft of city fence into one big pollinator hotel.
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Maurice van der Molen wrote:
Many birds, lizzards, hedgehogs and so on, will be attracted to this richeness and they all poo in your garden for free!
Tiffaney Dex wrote:
...Our place is an LPO refuge (League pour la Protection des Oiseaux, translation: bird protection league) and there statistics is that well over half of the hedgehogs have disappeared in France during the past two years. Ours are gone, along with all of our friends, and the slug population is thriving aa a result. That's also why the price of Indian Runners has skyrocketed.
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Maurice van der Molen wrote:(Sorry if my english is a bit sloppy, I'm Dutch)
I've had some experience with insecthotels through the years and they are great! Anything (organic!) that's stacked in large piles and slightly protected against rain will do and will host thousands and thousands of different creatures from the whole range of the animal kingdom. I'm personally not afraid of the 'wrong bugs and parasites'. As long as you make a lot of them, make them big enough or create a lot of small ones, there will be an ecological balance. The more you have of them and by using many techniques, the more biomass you attract/create and the more ecological complexity there will be. Many birds, lizzards, hedgehogs and so on, will be attracted to this richeness and they all poo in your garden for free!
I encourage you not to make insecthotels but insectcCITIES!
This one I created on my piece of land in the northern of France and is about 6 yards long, 2 yards high and 1 yard deep, so more of a "Insect Metropole. All in all have about 30 cubic yards of "piles" on the property. Even snakes are wellcome because they are rare and harmlous. And I don't have any problems with rats either because they are pretty harmlous too.
Some recent beds with extra animal accomodation:
My 'gate' also attracts insect because the wood is full of holes from larvae and caterpillars:
Nina Surya wrote:
Tiffaney Dex wrote:
...Our place is an LPO refuge (League pour la Protection des Oiseaux, translation: bird protection league) and there statistics is that well over half of the hedgehogs have disappeared in France during the past two years. Ours are gone, along with all of our friends, and the slug population is thriving aa a result. That's also why the price of Indian Runners has skyrocketed.
That's alarming news, Tiffaney. I thought I saw less hedgehogs than in the past, but I didn't realize it might be a common problem. Is there any data or theory on why they are disappearing? With that knowledge we could perhaps turn the tide?
Phil Stevens wrote:I wish I could send you all of ours. I really dislike having to dispatch something that cute, but they are a pest species here and cause all kinds of havoc.
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