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  • Any success with DIY wildlife habitats?

    While digging the other day I unearthed a bee pot (can't remember it's proper name I'm afraid) that I buried years ago. Idea no doubt from a magazine or something.
    Essentially it was an upturned ceramic flower pot, the kind with a single hole in the base, totally buried in a quiet corner where the grass grows long (unkempt basically), with a piece of hose connected to the pot base one end and in the open air at the other, some bedding material inside the pot and a bit of chicken wire underneath to hold it clear of the damp soil. The idea was to attract bees looking for nesting sites and then for them to set up a nest inside. I don't think it ever served it's purpose. All I found inside was some spiders web.
    Any success elsewhere? I'm not so much talking about abandoned logs or a pile of rubble, more where you've actually taken the trouble to construct something

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    The slug hotel was a hit a few years ago

    OH bought a sort of house shaped peanut butter feeder last year for the birds but all that happened was that it went mouldy. I got rid of the filling a couple of weeks ago and stuffed it with short lengths of bamboo. Hopefully the bees will like it.
    When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it.
    If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant.

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    • #3
      Made some primitively insect houses to hang in the tunnel. Half kitchen roll tubes stuffed with hollow dill stalks. They have been inhabited!!!
      Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poet

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      • #4
        My DIY Bug Hotel

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        • #5
          That looks fabulous!
          The best things in life are not things.

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