How To Make A Bug Hotel - Building A Solitary Bee Home

Today Ill be showing you How to Make a Bug Hotel for Solitary Bees and Potters Wasps. Since 1990 the global insect population is down by 25%, we need to raise awareness and do our best to help our little insect friends. One thing we can do is make our garden more habitable, apart from making a bug hotel, near the end of the video we will talk about what else we can do to do our part to keep encouraging insects into our garden. If you enjoyed this how to make an insect hotel, then make sure to hit that like button and subscribe! If you ended up making one of these bug hotels then make sure to let us know in the coments how you got on and if its helping in attracting insects to your garden!

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Tags: #InsectAwareness #InsectHotel #BugHotel

[stephenrowe]

I like this as it's not the usual...."this is easy to make when you have a fully fitted workshop" malarkey 🙂

[buttercuptime]

I love this project, Thumbs Up, Shared with my son-in-law, Thank you Alex & Alice.

[manderson]

Nice job - great idea to have one or two of these around the garden.

[bluesea]

Great idea mate thank you for sharing.

[jean-baptistedupont]

Sitting on the ground, using a wood stump to knock down stuff, sawing on an upside-down pot, holding stuff with your feet 👍👌 Just like I do it 😁

[HeatherOrdover-CraftLit]

2:27 Is there a way you can tell if the wood used in a pallet has been treated? Is there a smell or some way to test at home?

[mrmrworldwide]

I made one with this tutorial and it is so cool

[StephenRay]

Great tutorial and Great accent 👍.. Which part of the British isles ?

[ChromaEquinox]

3:22 - Of course! We wouldn't want our bees to get any splinters in their teeny tiny feet 😂 Building one of these at the moment, will let you know how I get on

[biancafritz]

Great video. I think u need to do a video showing us how to make our own natural pesticides next ? 😀

[babochon]

Last year I got a lot of "Grass-Carrying Wasps" in my bee house. What do I have to do when I see them?

[ojno]

What direction is best to face your bee hotel?

[JBvideoshoot]

All insects love toxic glue while they chew through the woods 👍👍