Insect Hotel with Customizable Hole Sizes
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All insects welcomed, big and small.
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We have had a lot of visitors to our insect (bee) hotels last year, so I decided to make my own.
The Honeycomb:
Have a look at the Prusaslicer file. Print with 1 bottom layer and 0 top layers. Perimeters = 0 also speeds up printing.
There are two modifiers to add different sizes of honeycombs.
| % Infill in PrusaSlicer | Resulting Size of Honeycombs |
| 5% | 15 mm |
| 8% | 9 mm |
| 10% | 7 mm |
So feel free to adjust the sized according to your local bug population. For our mud-bees, we use 8 mm holes drilled in wood, so 9% infill. Of course, other types of infill may also be attractive to different types of insects.
The house and the comb are two seperate pieces, so you can interchange them if you are not happy with the results. The house frame is designed to use as little material as possible.
Will report back once we get pictures of our first visitors.
Happy Printing!