Make a Bee/Insect Watering Station - PEP BB animal.sand.waterstation

Using left over stuff I have sitting around to upcycle.

Plastic old chicken waterer and old window screen.

The screen allows them to crawl around with drowning.

Here are my insect watering stations.

First one intentional.  Second  one unintentional.

A local environmental group sent me some sunflower seeds to encourage pollinators.  I planted those and the bunnies ate them all so I built this "bunny proof" stone herb spiral/pollinator garden with a 30 gallon pond at the base.  I put in lots of driftwood and Lemon Bacopa so the pollinators would have perches.  The pond is stocked with a couple dozen minnows to control mosquito larvae. The spiral has flowering purslane, marigolds, Mexican Bush Sage, chamomile, and another flowering bush I forgot the name of.  

These are the stones I used to build the spiral and line the pond:
 





It's real rainy today but I still have a customer.

I made a new Insect Waterer and cleaned an old one

New Insect Waterer

A large deep plate


Some pebbles and pieces of broken pots in it


Water in it. And that's it


The old one I cleaned


In fact this is an Insect Waterer too. My tiny pond, overgrown with mint (Mentha Aquatica)

Animal Care - Make a Bee/Insect Watering Station

First are the materials for the watering station: black pot (for height), water dish, rocks harvested from the driveway (drive is crushed rock), glass pebbles, a few twigs leftover from another project.
The water tray is on the black pot nestled in the garden with the rocks and pebbles - still fiddling with getting the twigs stable.  I added the pebbles so the bugs still have landing spots when the water is getting low.
Finished bee/insect watering station with water.