Jun 11, 2024
A photo of an insect hotel. A photo of a bug hotel. I saw this in a park.
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A photo of an insect hotel. A photo of a bug hotel. I saw this in a park.
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An insect hotel. A bug hotel. I saw this in a park.
Photography.
I’ve been researching bee and bug hotels lately (only just learning after weeks of research that you do NOT want to combine the two as bugs could be parasitic to the bees), so I was happy to see the state extension service at the local street fair and chatted with them about it. I learned that you should not cut down you plant stems in the fall because that’s where bees hibernate and lay eggs!
Bug Hotels
You call it garden art, insects will call it home,,,Bug hotels will offer shelter and even food for beetles, bees, and spiders. Johanna Silver writing in Sunset Magazine.
The Kruckeberg Botanic Garden in Shoreline, Washington makes a convincing case for bug hotels. “These bug hotels provide safe places for animals large and small to hide, rest or raise their young. Many bugs are beneficial to the garden; they help pollinate flowers, eat pest insects and break down organic matter into new soil.”
I also think of bug hotels as garden art.
The two-sided bug hotel at the botanic garden solves the problem of what to do with garden debris. Think bits of wood, pine cones, lumber scraps, moss, bark, sections of tree branches, broken bricks, favorite stones.
Start with a basic divided structure—of any size—and apportion in ways you find pleasing. Then begin to fill with gathered materials. It may be a work in progress as you generate garden detritus.
Call it quirky but then sometimes, we as earth-loving gardeners, are unconventional.
These bug hotels at the botanic garden are the most elaborate I’ve seen. You can also start small as in the bug hotels seen in Sunset’s 8 Stylish Bug Hotels. (Thumbnail above)
Your plants will thank you.