BBC Tweets Insect House
Wow! The BBC are tweeting about our Insect Houses which are on display in PopUp Wiltshire, Emery Gate Shopping Centre, Emery Lane, Chippenham, SN15 3JP
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Nasty Nits
What To Do About Nits Scratch, scratch, scratch. Oh dear, we have nits. Well, head lice faeces actually, as itching is the reaction to head louse poo, spit and skin. That’s what causes the unmistakable itchy feeling at the back of the neck. It’s an unpleasant thought but it’s probably an inevitable result of having two […]
Can bee do it? Yes we Calne!
Henry and Catherine have come across a fantastic idea that’s going on in Calne in Wiltshire, just round the corner from where they live. Calne Environmental Network have teamed up with Kennet Beekeepers and Calne in Bloom to provide information on how to sow insect-friendly flowers in your garden. They’re even offering subsidised wildflower seeds (Henry says “subsidised” […]
Nick nack paddy wack…
…give a bug a home! This year has been really bad for bugs of all sorts – the good, the bad and the (b)ugly. On the plus side you might say, there have been fewer of those aphids and blackfly and harlequin ladybirds which make gardeners and conservationists cringe. But on the other hand, there […]
Crunchy cockroaches
Would You Eat A Cockroach? We like our insects here at InsectHouse.co.uk, but we mainly like to look at them and talk about them. We don’t like to eat them very much and we certainly don’t like to eat them raw and wriggling. Apart from being very icky, that would also be a bit cruel. […]
Cricket news
Oak Bush-Cricket News! There was a really interesting programme on the radio today that Henry listened to on the internet via this link http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01n651r/Saving_Species_Series_3_Episode_6/ Apparently there’s a new species of bush-cricket in the UK. It’s called the Southern Oak Bush-Cricket and it looks like this (photo by Fritz Geller-Grimm – nice one, Fritz!) It’s a […]
How to make an Insect House – part 4
Finally our insect house was all done. We started making another one and then did some more. We tried to make them all different shapes and sizes. Then we took them to the market to sell them. We put them on our little cart and gave each one a price tag. Lots of people said […]
How to make an Insect House – part 3
we screwed and nailed the wood together to make a house. We used some decking wood to make a roof because it looked pretty. We had to make sure the wood did not have anything in it which might hurt bugs or insects. Dad said the decking was treated with stuff to stop it rotting and that […]
How to make an insect house – part 2
Once we had done our drawings, my Dad said we needed to find some wood. Luckily, we managed to get 2 bigs sacks of spare wood from a timber merchant. it was supposed to be for putting on the fire but it looked like lots of wooden lego bricks and I thought it would be […]
Henry says: Spiders!
Holy House Spiders! The leaves are turning brown and falling off the trees and it’s getting cold and wet. It must be autumn and that’s when it’s spider season. You’ve probably seen loads already, running around your house. You get thin ones with long legs that my Mum calls Daddy-Long-Legs but she comes from Australia and […]
