Living with Birds Insects Schwegler Woodcrete Favourite Nest Box

Insect House

Open the door to the Insect House and a fascinating world is revealed.

The wooden door is drilled with holes, giving insects access to transparent tubes inside the insulated, dark woodcrete body of the house. These tubes make perfect nest sites for all sorts of insects, from solitary bees to other flying insects. It’s not unusual for all the tubes to be occupied at once, usually by a variety of different species.

Wildlife Paving Stone

The Wildlife Paving Stone offers a cunning way to discover and observe.

Many creatures like to live under stones: the Wildlife Paving Stone offers a cunning way to discover and observe a world that is normally hidden from view. First lay the metal frame, then slot in the glass window. The tough paving stone fits on top. To view, just lift the stone easily whenever you wish.

WoodcretePLUS™ Underground Bumblebee Box

Suitable for parks and public places.

A Schwegler woodcrete product, it can be buried in a lawn or flower bed, and is especially suitable for parks and public places where it can be safely hidden.

WoodcretePLUS™ Overground Bumblebee Box

Can be used in any situation.

An Overground alternative to the Underground Box.

Due to its large size, this item is delivered by pallet. Delivery is charged at cost. Please ask us for a quotation before ordering - call us free on 0800 072 0130.

Lacewing Box

Lacewings, so easily overlooked.

Lacewings are great consumers of greenfly. During their development the larvae eat as many as 500 greenfly so are very useful in the garden. However, these delicate and attractive insects need suitable housing, especially for hibernating through winter. Our woodcrete Lacewing Box provides a safe and suitable refuge.

Earwig Tubes

Our Earwig Tubes provide the perfect habitat for these small predators.

Earwigs are very useful to gardeners since they eat greenfly, mites and the larvae of other insect pests. They are active at night and sleep concealed during the day. Our Earwig Tubes provide the perfect habitat for these small predators; place on the ends of branches and sticks and they will be occupied from May until late autumn.

Combination Insect Box

The combination insect box is designed to encourage useful insects..

The Insect Combination Box is designed to encourage useful insects to live in your garden.

Internal slats filled with different natural materials offers suitable accomodation for many useful species which fulfil an important regulatory or pollination function in our natural world.

The Insect Combi eliminates the need for poisonous chemicals in a garden measuring up to 400... 500m².

Due to its large size, this item is delivered by pallet. Delivery is charged at cost. Please ask us for a quotation before ordering - call us free on 0800 072 0130.

Hornet Box

The Hornet box can be sited at the edge of clearings, woods and in park-like landscapes with the area free of branches.

It should be hung at least 4 metres high in a discreet position with the entrance hole facing south east or south west.

Due to its large size, this item is delivered by pallet. Delivery is charged at cost. Please ask us for a quotation before ordering - call us free on 0800 072 0130.

Hornet Starter Box

Ideal for hornets and late wasps.

Especially during the time in which the nest is established, unfavourable facors such as bad weather, food shortage or the lack of suitable nesting options, which overstrain the young hornet queen in her attempt to find a dry and safe place to build her nest and keep warm.

This nest box provides the ideal climatic control conditions for a young colony; the unique entrance minimises unwanted disturbances from birds, bats and mammals. It is suitable for building a nest and can act as a smaller safe house for late wasps.

In order to increase acceptance it is advised to site in sunny locations, hardly approached by humans.

Insect Nesting Aid - Woodcrete

Where natural holes are scarce our Nesting Blocks are ideal.

Bees and wasps are of great ecological value: they regulate the numbers of other harmful insects and play an important role as pollinators. Most species nest in beetle holes; where such natural holes are scarce our Nesting Blocks provide the ideal alternative. They can be hung on fences, walls, pergolas and balconies, in sheds, and anywhere sunny and sheltered in gardens. They should be left outside during winter; otherwise the insects may hatch too early and die. None of the insects using these aids is aggressive.

Insect Nesting Aid - Reed

Reed in weatherproof wood-concrete frame.

Nesting facilities made of natural reeds are placed in a block made of heat-conserving SCHWEGLER wood-concrete. Our reeds are obtained from carefully managed and insecticide-free areas in Europe.

The solid structure keeps temperature fluctuations to a minimum and makes the block extremely air-permeable.

Insect Nesting Aid - Clay and Reed

Where natural holes are scarce our Nesting Blocks are ideal.

Bees and wasps are of great ecological value: they regulate the numbers of other harmful insects and play an important role as pollinators. Most species nest in beetle holes; where such natural holes are scarce our Nesting Blocks provide the ideal alternative. They can be hung on fences, walls, pergolas and balconies, in sheds, and anywhere sunny and sheltered in gardens. They should be left outside during winter; otherwise the insects may hatch too early and die. None of the insects using these aids is aggressive.