Bee & Butterfly House
This easy-to-build project will invite bees, butterflies, and other beneficial bugs to your garden with this attractive habitat.
Just outside my shop window lies my little vegetable patch, and the project you see here aims to provide a place for all my insect helpers while combining my woodworking with my gardening passion. The house is made in three sections: a tall central tower flanked by shorter additions. The drawing above iluustrates the the construction details using a simple tongue and dado joint. Several species of bees raise their brood in tunnels. I used two shop-made solutions as well as purchasing tubes to fill the openings in the house. You can use any or all of these processes to create your tubes. This is a fun project that you can start on this weekend, make it your own with your favorite colors, and have it ready to put in the backyard this spring.
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- 5 pages of step-by-step instructions
- 19 full-color photos, illustrations, and exploded views
- Materials List & Project Supplies Sources
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Imperial Plans
The United States Customary System of Units (USCS or USC), more commonly referred to as the English or Imperial system, is the standard set of units for our plans. It uses inches and feet for measurement. This is the one you probably want if you are in the United States, and it is the one we have traditionally offered on this website.
Metric Plans
The International System of Units (SI), more commonly referred to as the metric system, is the alternative set of units that we have available for some of our plans. It uses millimeters, centimeters, and meters for measurement. This is the one you probably want if you are outside the United States. These plans are provided by our business partner, Australian Woodsmith, and are based on the original Woodsmith plan. However, dimensions and other elements of the plan may vary between the metric and standard versions. Be sure to double-check the plan before building.
Premium Plans
All of the information that you need to build our plans can be found in the standard plan. However, if you want even more granular detail to make your job easier, you should consider our premium plans. These come with additional shop diagrams that we drew when creating the prototypes. Shop drawings are not available for every plan.