insect hotel

English

Insect hotel in Asturias Spain

Noun

insect hotel (plural insect hotels)

1. A man-made structure created to provide shelter for insects.
   • 2020, The Butterfly Brothers, Wild Your Garden: Create a sanctuary for nature, Dorling Kindersley Ltd, →ISBN, page 166:

     The basic principle behind an insect hotel is to use different materials to create a variety of habitats for a wide range of insect species. Most hotels feature an assortment of holes that vary in diameter from 2 to 10mm (¹⁄₁₆–³⁄₈in), depending on the species the hotel is intended to attract.

Synonyms

• bug hotel, insect house

Translations

man-made structure to house insects

• Czech: hmyzí hotel m
• Dutch: insectenhotel (nl) n
• Estonian: putukahotell
• Finnish: hyönteishotelli
• French: hôtel à insectes (fr) m, nichoir à insectes m
• German: Insektenhotel (de) n, Insektenhaus n; Nützlingshotel n (Austria)
• Hungarian: rovarhotel, rovartanya, bogárhotel, darázsgarázs
• Polish: hotel dla owadów m, domek dla owadów m
• Russian: отель для насекомых m (otelʹ dlja nasekomyx)
• Spanish: hotel para insectos m
• Swedish: insektshotell (sv) c

See also

• beehive, apiary

Anagrams

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