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Beneficial Insect & Hedgehog Habitats

Attracting Ladybirds, lacewings, bumblebees and butterflies, amongst others are all possible with the habitats in this section - provide for these beneficial insects in the garden with one of these natural wooden houses and you will be rewarded as they feed on problem garden aphids and pests. By using one insect to control another, you can achieve very effective results with aphid problems without using pesticides and with no danger to humans, pets or beneficial creatures.

 

Butterfly Habitat/Feeder

Butterfly Habitat/Feeder

This attractive Butterfly Habitat/Feeder combines a safe over wintering and interactive habitat with a central feed station - the perfect place for butterflies to hang out. The central feed sponge can be charged with a sugar/water solution to encourage colourful visitors butterflies to the feed station/habitat, who will use the house for roosting.

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Bee and Ladybird Box

Bee and Ladybird Box

Ladybirds and bees work hard in the garden, so it's only fair to reward them with a comfy place to live - and the Bee and Ladybird Box is all that and more! The box is made from cedar which is renowned for resisting rotting, damage from water and warping and siting it close to vegetation and ground cover will have the solitary bees and ladybirds making a 'beeline' for their new home!

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Pollinating Bee Log

Pollinating Bee Log

Create the perfect environment for attracting mason bees - and other species of non-swarming, non-aggressive solitary bees - to the garden. The 30 nesting tubes are buried into the log, providing well insuated homes for the residents, all of which are excellent pollinators of fruit, vegetables and flowers.

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Ladybird Log Tower

Ladybird Log Tower

The Ladybird Log Tower will encourage the beneficial ladybirds into your garden - an adult ladybird may eat up to 5000 aphids during its lifetime - attracting ladybirds into the garden is a must for anyone with an aphid problem.

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Cedar Hedgehog Habitat

Cedar Hedgehog Habitat

Attract a new best friend to the garden with this durable Cedar Hedgehog Habitat. The waterproof and insulated roof will keep you slug-devouring buddy warm and dry throughout the harsh winter months, and he'll repay you come spring when he's hungry!

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Ladybird and Lacewing Log

Ladybird and Lacewing Log

Ladybirds and lacewings will be delighted to over winter in this chunky FSC Certified timber and natural Ladybird and Lacewing Log. The internal chamber can be filled with straw for lacewings or bark for ladybirds to provide valuable insulation for these aphid-munching predators, who will also use the log as a summer retreat.

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Bumblebee Nesting Box

Bumblebee Nesting Box

The Bumblebee Nesting Box provides a habitat to preserve one of the most important pollinators the garden - the bumblebees -excellent pollinators of a wide variety of fruit, flowers and vegetables and are as useful to gardeners as mason bees.

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Bug Box

Bug Box

Provide a valuable habitat for ladybirds and solitary bees with this carefully designed double chamber bug box, it is ideal for hanging in a sheltered position in the garden. The holes may be used by solitary bees such as Mason Bees or Leafcutter Bees, which are excellent for pollinating in the garden and helping to increase fruit yields.

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Insect Habitat Tower

Insect Habitat Tower

The Insect Habitat Tower will help your garden become a haven for all kinds of wildlife as insects become attracted to this cedarwood tower that provides them with the perfect habitat. Consisting of custom made chambers they’ll be right at home and the cedar resists rotting, water damage and warping.

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Solar Insect Theatre

Solar Insect Theatre

The Insect Theatre has a unique solar lighting system which automatically lights up at dusk to attract the moths, lacewings, butterflies and other interesting flying insects to leave you with much to study when it turns off at dawn. Complete with side door to add material and to remove insects and several solitary Bee nesting holes.

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Log Shaped Lacewing Chamber

Log Shaped Lacewing Chamber

This Log Shaped Lacewing Chamber provides the ideal natural hibernating home for lacewings during the winter and dramatically boosting larvae numbers in the Spring.

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Red Mason Bee Nester/Replacement Tubes

Red Mason Bee Nester/Replacement Tubes

Special nesting tube designed to attract this friendly and docile species the Red Mason Bee. (30 Tubes)

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Mixed Mason Bee Nest with Optional Brackets

Mixed Mason Bee Nest with Optional Brackets

Special nesting tube to attract Red and Blue Mason Bee and Leaf Cutter Bees.

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Solitary Bee Nest Box

Solitary Bee Nest Box

Help natural pollination of flowers, herbs, fruit and vegetables in the garden by providing nesting habitat with this quality solitary bee box.

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Butterfly House/Habitat

Butterfly House/Habitat

Made from high quality timber/oak the house comes with removable wooden pins/ramps (for access and sun warming before flight).

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Beneficial Insect Tower

Beneficial Insect Tower

A twin chamber, ground sited Insect habitat with lower open chamber to encourage colonies of beneficial insects with plant materials or attractants.

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Bee House

Bee House

Bee House -Galvanised roof nester attracts the queen bees in early spring, masonary Bees are excellent pollinators of both vegetables and flowers.

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Ladybird Box

Ladybird Box

Ladybird Box - Galvanised roof nester provides shelter and hibernating space for ladybirds who are one of the most important friends for the gardener, They prey on aphids, red spider mite, whitefly and all manor of garden pests.

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Galvanised Box Triple Pack

Galvanised Box Triple Pack

This set of 3 Galvanised Roof Boxes, (a Ladybird Box, a Bee House and a Blue Tit Box) will provide the perfect shelter and environment for beneficial bees, ladybirds and one of the country's favourite garden birds.

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Original Oak Hedgehog House

Original Oak Hedgehog House

This substantial house is of durable oak timber construction, with a double layered roof for waterproofing, oak floor for insulation and sheltered entrance tunnel. A waking hedgehog will hungrily consume slugs, snails, beetles and caterpillars come spring.

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Terracotta Toad House

Terracotta Toad House

Hibernating toads will welcome a wonderful winter retreat and will more than pay you back in spring by devouring slugs, nocturnal insects and larvae. Introduce this attractive and unobtrusive Terracotta Toad House to a damp corner of the garden immediately and welcome your own pest control officer!

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