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 Insect House In Wharton Park - Durham, UK Posted by:  dtrebilc
N 54° 46.820 W 001° 34.954
30U E 591162 N 6071268
This insect house is next to a small community orchard in Wharton Park.
Waymark Code: WM19589
Location: North East England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 11/27/2023
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Wharton Park is set on a hill side behind Durham Railway Station.
The insect house is at the top of the hill and is divided into a number of different sections with different types of environments for the insects such as pine cones, and sea shells.
There is an information board next to the insect hotel.
Insect House
Who lives in a house like this?
insects and other invertebrates are facing a lack of suitable nesting, resting and hibernation habitats because of human impact and our obsession with making things look 'tidy'.
This insect house therefore aims to provide some suitable habitat for them to nest in or hibernate.
One of the insects we hope to attract are solitary bees. In the UK there are many more species; of solitary bee (about 250) than there are of social species like honeybee (1) and bumblebees (24).
Solitary bees are important pollinators as there are so many species and these are further divided into groups depending upon their nesting habits. The female bee does all the work on her own, constructing a pen sized tube of nest cells using their preferred nesting material, that are then filled with pollen and a single egg.
Mason bees construct a nest using mud. Leafcutter bees make their nest from leaf segments they cut from .ts, and mining bees dig a burrow in sandy soil.
Solitary bees range in size from only a few millimetres to about the size of a honeybee, which is why there is a range of sizes of nesting tubes in the insect house as they can be very specific about their nest site.
Many other species of insect and invertebrate may also use the insect house as a resting or hibernation site. This may include other bees and wasps parasitising the solitary bee nests, ladybirds, butterflies, earwigs, woodlice, spiders and lacewings.
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