• Grow Hack: How to Build an Insect Hotel to Avoid Toxic Pesticides
• By attracting beneficial insects you can reduce the use of expensive and toxic pesticides, and who knows, start enough insect hotels and you might be running for president some day .
• Just like a simple brush pile can make a habitat for beneficial insects, an insect hotel does the same for gardens located in places that are less-than-natural.
• If you have some logs lying around, drill smooth, three to five inch holes in them and place them facing out in the insect hotel.
• While many other measures exist that can help you attract beneficial insects, insect hotels are especially helpful for people that grow in places that lack areas where insects can naturally live in, like bush piles and other messy areas that make great insect habitats.

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