Hello
While I have been looking at various allotment websites, I came across a picture of a Bug Tower made out of old pallets on an allotment in Liverpool. The man had nailed 5 or 6 pallets together using the top as a work bench and the spaces between were filled with bits and bobs to create a safe place for lacewings, lady birds etc to live. I cant remember which site is was on now, does anybody have any ideas of what was in the spaces?????
Any help would be much appreciated. ???
Sorry, wrong Forum!!
;D ;D ;D Never mind Gonz, its a good idea to make on a smaller scale, for me anyway.
So I will continue with your wrong posting if I may ;) Maybe you can add to it when you find out :D
I guess canes bundled together, straw in a wooden box
I kept the info as i was so impressed:
http://www.wildlifetrust.org.uk/cheshire/documents/advice_invertebrate_habitat2.pdf
hope that it helps and is the one you wanted, you may have to cut and paste into the address bar
tILTS THATS GREAT. tHANKS FOR POSTING...............caps lock, sorry ::)
I am passing this on to a vegan friend who has collected lots of bits to save all the wild life but seems to have no idea what to do with them and seems to have had no luck in attracting anything, as yet, into her efforts.
The questions I would ask about having one of these on an allotment are:-
1, How do you become selective with your tenants?
Surely there must be areas here which are as ideal for sheltering the pests we do not want as well as the predators we do want.
2, Do you have to clean it out every summer so that the little guys have some where to return to the next winter or make a new one each year?