Bug Hotel No 2.
Well after my Sister in Law saw my attempt at a bug house/hotel, she being a lover of all things wild had to have one. No I said with some authority. Yes, my wife said with much more authority.
There is a reason for my initial no response, because I don’t like repeating the same project twice as I usually end up recognising all the mistakes and improvements I should have done, and I start to hate the first one I completed, and because you don’t have to continually design and problem solve as you are working through the project it gets boring. I need challenges in a project.
So, after my wife tongue whipped me into submission I relented and a Bug Villa idea was borne, not a hotel like my own, just a three-storey house with a view.
Now I posted the first one on the forum and was met with some resistance from our American cousins who could not believe I wanted to save the insects that make their life a misery in many parts of the USA. Fortunately, over here in the UK an occasional wasp or bee sting is as much as you can look forward to, we don’t really have mozzies only three-foot-long highland midges. So, saving our bugs is a pastime taken to heart by many. If you go into our garden centres you will now see as many bug houses as bird houses on display.
The design I decided on was to be more retro with a 1960’s feel to it and as such I just drew a huge triangle on the floor and the shape you see is half way up my drawing. I just nailed a line into the point of the triangle and used the line to convey all the measurements which kept each piece of wood pointing to an apex.
Bending the ply was difficult and I ended up involving my good wife who has a steam oven and she steamed all the ply for me. If anyone’s interested its regulo 5 or 290 degrees for 15mins in a fan assisted one with steam at full pelt. Worked a treat.
The roof is just grey Flash band I cut to imitate a slated roof.
Well it was handed over and as you can see installed.
As from now all new insects in my neck of the woods will be homeless unless they bring a bug caravan with them, and no that’s not a cue for a travelling bug house.
Yours
Colin
Scotland
Well after my Sister in Law saw my attempt at a bug house/hotel, she being a lover of all things wild had to have one. No I said with some authority. Yes, my wife said with much more authority.
There is a reason for my initial no response, because I don’t like repeating the same project twice as I usually end up recognising all the mistakes and improvements I should have done, and I start to hate the first one I completed, and because you don’t have to continually design and problem solve as you are working through the project it gets boring. I need challenges in a project.
So, after my wife tongue whipped me into submission I relented and a Bug Villa idea was borne, not a hotel like my own, just a three-storey house with a view.
Now I posted the first one on the forum and was met with some resistance from our American cousins who could not believe I wanted to save the insects that make their life a misery in many parts of the USA. Fortunately, over here in the UK an occasional wasp or bee sting is as much as you can look forward to, we don’t really have mozzies only three-foot-long highland midges. So, saving our bugs is a pastime taken to heart by many. If you go into our garden centres you will now see as many bug houses as bird houses on display.
The design I decided on was to be more retro with a 1960’s feel to it and as such I just drew a huge triangle on the floor and the shape you see is half way up my drawing. I just nailed a line into the point of the triangle and used the line to convey all the measurements which kept each piece of wood pointing to an apex.
Bending the ply was difficult and I ended up involving my good wife who has a steam oven and she steamed all the ply for me. If anyone’s interested its regulo 5 or 290 degrees for 15mins in a fan assisted one with steam at full pelt. Worked a treat.
The roof is just grey Flash band I cut to imitate a slated roof.
Well it was handed over and as you can see installed.
As from now all new insects in my neck of the woods will be homeless unless they bring a bug caravan with them, and no that’s not a cue for a travelling bug house.
Yours
Colin
Scotland
