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.

All About Snails for kids and teachers Garden Snails Characteristics of Snails Snails can be found in gardens, in ponds and even in the sea. They belong to a group of animals with a soft body called molluscs (mollusks) which are related to oysters, clams, and other shellfish. Characteristically they have soft, unsegmented bodies. Normally, their soft bodies are protected by a hard shell. Snails have different shaped shells. Some people keep snails in aquariums together with their fish. Snails do not like hot and dry conditions. Snails can live up to 5 to 10 years. Do you know where the snail's eyes are? Yes, the eye is on the tip of the tentacle or at the base of the tentacle for marine species. What and how does a snail eat? A snail have something called a radula in its mouth for grinding up its food. How big can the snail grow? The largest known land snail named Gee Geronimo was a Giant African Snail collected in Sierra Leone in 1976. How does the snail move? The snail moves by creeping on a flat "foot" underneath the body.