Insect Hotels

Insect Hotels Provide a home to pollinators and pest controllers. Tidy gardens, lawns and lack of dead wood, mean less and less habitat for wild bees, spiders and ladybugs. A wildlife stack can harbor numerous beneficial insects and amphibians. Wildlife stack. Bug hotel in Oakham, UK at the Lyndon Nature Reserve, built by Paul Stammers and Michelle Househam. Solitary bees like sun. Insect hotel in Hamburg, Germany. Insect hotel at the Heimanshof, North Holland.Many solitary bees are very small and you may not have realised they are bees. Insect home or bug bank, on the grounds of Oxburgh Hall in North Norfolk. Insect hotel in Helmsley, UK. Solitary bees are different from social bees (such as honey bees) in that every female is fertile and makes individual nest cells for her offspring. The female typically creates a series of compartments (cells) and within each cell she will lay an egg on top of its future food source. Insect hotel in Hoofddorf, Holland. Insect hotel in St. Bug stack.

Doggy stairs in cob Doggy stairs in cob My newfound interest in sustainability (natural building in particular) drove me to my first experiment: doggy stairs for my aging boxer. More than pleased with the results, I decided to share it here. Inspired by several alternative building posts from ‘ordinary’ people, I want to show that someone without experience or particular building skills like me can actually go for it and turn ideas into reality. My boxer, at >12.5 y/o, has arthritis. ConceptThe goal was to build sturdy, less steep stairs that would last a long time, but that I can easily dismantle, restoring the property to its original state. Having no experience, I researched the web but did not find something resembling what I needed. Building materialsI got the ‘dirt’, loam (in Dutch: leem), from a ditching company that has no use for it. ToolsA couple of tubtrugs, a trowel, a wood shredder and my bare hands and feet. What’s next? rebelske #fidofriday #cob

Hybrid Adobe Tensegrity !!! Gelieve dit te lezen met de stem van de TeleShop verkoper(s) !!! Bent u het ook moe om altijd de afstandbediening te zoeken of uw favoriete boek? Erger je niet langer want wij hebben voor u de oplossing! Met dit meubelstuk hebt u alles wat u nodig heeft, op één plek! Het nieuwe "Shylläx" stuk heeft geen handleiding nodig om te verstaan, geen verklaring nodig en is gebruiksklaar wanneer u het neerzet op uw vloer! "Shylläx, wees niet gespannen, wees losjes." Tired of searching for the remote control or your favorite book? Then don't look any further, we've got what you need! With this furniture you'll have everything you need in one spot! The new "Shylläx" piece doesn't need a manual to understand, no explenation to use and use-ready when you put it on the ground! "Shylläx... don't be tense, be cool."

Leemoven Hoe bouw je een leemoven. Wat komt er allemaal bij kijken. En als de leemoven af is, wat kun je er dan in bakken? In de zomer van 2012 volgde ik een workshop ‘Leemoven bouwen’ onder leiding van Dirk. Leemoven onderstel van hout De eerste dag begonnen we met het mengen van het leem met water. Oskam basisleem 25 kilozak Mengen van leem met water en stro Mengen van leem zonder stro Na het mengen gingen we aan de slag. Het maken van de onderplaat van de leemoven, 1e laag met stro Zoals u wellicht kunt zien is de klei niet té nat. Het maken van de leemoven bodemplaat, 2e laag zonder stro De plaat bestaat uit 2 lagen: de eerste (isolatie)laag met stro en een tweede laag zonder stro. Pizzaoven van leem – bodemplaat De bodemplaat is klaar. Lees ook:

Formworks Building, inc. Nick and Lilah's Glass Cabin Guest Post by Jordan Long In 2012, Nick Olson and Lilah Horwitz quit their jobs and set off to build a glass cabin in the mountains of West Virginia. Nick is a photographer who specializes in tintypes taken with a camera he made himself. He currently works for a landscape company in Milwaukee designing one-of-a-kind objects and spends his off time travelling the country looking for adventure. Lilah is a designer. Half Cut Tea de broodoven