Insektenhotel am Sandmagerrasen

Through intensive human intervention in the natural landscape - including through extensive use of pesticides in agriculture and horticulture as well as through the existing in private gardens tendency to "tidy" landscape - are only a few natural insect habitats available, such. B. open clay dry slopes or deadwood. These processes are called habitat destruction.Not only in the wild, but also in gardens many beneficials such as bumblebees, wild bees, slipper, wrinkles, grave and wasp wasps, lacewings or earwigs by pollination and as a free biological "pest control" to help maintain ecological balance. In addition, insect hotels are also being built for educational purposes, such as for the general public at garden shows and in parks or schools that want to teach children the biology of insects and practical nature conservation vividly. Insect hotels make an important contribution to environmental education, because watching wild bees during nesting is easier than finding bee nests in nature.