Habitat Hotel

Make an insect hotel

Native bees need holes to shelter in and for their larvae to incubate. Different types of bees need different- sized holes. We can provide holes for native bees by making insect hotels with tubes of varying diameters to accommodate different species. Steps to make a native bee hotel.

*Get an empty washed food tin.

* Collect tubes of different sizes eg straws, hollow sticks, bamboo (this grows as a weed on verges and vacant blocks in many suburbs. It is ok to go and cut some sticks of different sizes) or corrugated cardboard rolled into a tube and fastened with masking tape.

* Cut the tubes and bamboo to the same length as the height of your tin.

* Pack tubes of different sizes into your tin until it is tight (none fall out when you tip it upside down.)

* You’re finished. Pack up all the left-mover materials or make more hotels

* Find a place sheltered from the wind and rain to sit your hotel.

* Wait and watch. One day you’ll see insects coming to your hotel.