Blitzen Hotel for Insects Insectbox Professional Made in Italy 100% The hotels for insects can be located almost everywhere: in the garden as well as on the balcony at the 5th floor. The ideal place is of course in close proximity of flowers and plants that offer nectar and pollen. It should be preferably located in a sunny position, protected from the wind and the rain. It would be ideal an exposure facing south, west-south or east-south and on a height of 1-2 meters. It can be hanged on the wall of a house or a garage, on a pen, on a pole, on a trunk etc. The enchanting ladybirds eat up aphids. Ladybirds are useful inhabitants of gardens because they eat up countless aphids. After the coupling, during the spring the female lays about 400 eggs on the below surface of the tree's leaves that are infested with aphids. The grubs coming out from the eggs eat up these parasites. During his whole live a grub can eat around 400 aphids. The hotel for insects can be installed in every period, also in winter. Wild bees sometimes fly already at the end of february and they are graceful if they could find a comfortable shelter. The last butterflies are searching a suitable place to spend the winter before the intense cold is arriving. Dimensions: length 56,5 cm, width 38 cm, edge's heights 18 cm, total heights 35 cm The hotel for insects doesn't need work, the tubes for the nesting are cleaned by the insects themselves. At the most it is necessary to take off sometimes the spider webs. During the winter hotels for insects stay outside, otherwise with warm temperatures the hibernated insects would wake up, they would flutter without a destination and they would die of hunger.