How to build a hanging insect house

By Karen Hardy
Updated September 3 2014 - 10:08am, first published August 23 2014 - 12:00am

With its living succulent roof, this desirable insect house has lots of different rooms to encourage helpful, beneficial insects like bees, ladybirds and lacewings to seek shelter in your garden.

  • TIME IT RIGHT:  Make your insect house from spring to early autumn, when the plants for the green roof will be actively growing so they can root in, and before insects start looking for places to hibernate.
  • TOOLS & EQUIPMENT: a wooden box, such as a single-bottle wine box with slide-out lid, plus the lid from a second box