Wednesday, August 14, 2024, 4 – 6pm PDT

Everyone needs a place to rest! Our bug friends are no different. Making a bug hotel is essential to a vibrant local ecology.

Adding a bug hotel (also called a bug house) to your garden makes for a fun and creative way to encourage biodiversity. Bug hotels provide shelter and nesting sites to native and migratory solitary insects. As most gardeners could tell you, these tiny creatures are crucial—most plants depend on pollinators. And as organic gardeners know all too well, it’s crucial to protect vulnerable pollinators and attract beneficial insects. Enter the bug hotel. It works the same way as a bird house—however, rather than one family, it can serve multiple types of insects.