Good materials to construct insect hotels with can include using dry stone walls or old tiles.

By using an insect hotel, parasitic insects are also attracted to make use of the facilities.

The park includes an orchard with an insect hotel and a vineyard yielding about 200 bottles of wine per year.

The various components or sizes of holes to use as entry of an insect hotel attract different species.

Many insect hotels are used as nest sites by insects including solitary bees and solitary wasps.

Other insects hotels are specifically designed to allow the insects to hibernate, notable examples include ladybirds and butterflies.

Insects hotels are also popular amongst gardeners and fruit and vegetable growers due to encouraging insect pollination.

Ready-made insect hotels are also found at garden centers, and particularly ecological and educational conservational centers and organisations.

An informational notice explaining the various fruit trees can be found at the orchard's lower edge, and at the upper end is an "insect hotel", installed in 2008.

An insect hotel is a manmade structure created from natural materials, they can come in a variety of shapes and sizes depending on the specific purpose or specific insect it is catered to.

They have received the David Bellamy Conservation Award for Environmental Cleanliness 2005, with £8,000 which was spent on a new wildlife garden, with a Pond, insect hotel and a Hedgehog 'house'.

Set on a ledge between the two large bat nesting boxes in front of the upstairs bedroom windows are a large number of short logs with thousands upon thousands of holes on the end grain side to form possible dwellings for insects (see also insect hotel).