With the aim of constructing a favorable
environment for insects and other indigenous wildlife a Scottish Conservation
Group Highland Titles constructed an insect hotel measuring more than 7,000
cubic feet.
The group earned a Guinness World Record by
this action and broke the previous world record of 89.37 cubic meters and set
the new world record for the Largest insect hotel/house according to the WORLD
RECORD ACADEMY.
The intention of this grand establishment is to recreate a more wildlife friendly
habitat in the form of a managed natural environment of six-legged creatures.
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| Scottish conservation group Highland Titles made World's Largest Insect Hotel |
Conservation group Highland Titles used felled
sitka spruce, masonry bricks, bamboo canes, wood chips, forest bark, wildflower
seeds, clay pipes and strawberry netting to build a 7,059.4-cubic-foot insect
hotel on the Highland Titles Nature Reserve in Duror.
6 months of back-breaking work and 7 members
of staff were required to complete this project, and the end result will
eventually be home to millions of insects such as ants, ladybirds, beetles,
bees and butterflies. The act of creating the insect hotel taught the
participants about favorable environments for insects and the importance of
balancing ecosystems.
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| Restoring insect populations, like bees and butterflies, to Scotland is one of the hopes of the insect hotel. |
A Guinness World Records adjudicator visited
the site and confirmed the insect hotel, which already houses a variety of
species, took the world record from a 3,157-cubic-foot insect hotel built in
Warsaw, Poland. This hotel will also help to feed other animals on the nature
reserve such as bats, hedgehogs, birds and badgers.
- - Highland Titles began in 2006 with a
mission to conserve Scotland, one square foot at a time. The conservation
project now encompassing 5 nature reserves and over 800 acres of Scottish
wilderness is funded by selling gift-sized souvenir plots of land. The Highland
Titles community of souvenir plot owners are invited to style themselves as the
Lords and Ladies of Glencoe. Over 300,000 plots of land have been sold to date.
"This record-breaking initiative is about
the environmental message," Highland Titles CEO Douglas Wilson said in a
news release. "We bought this land in 2006 when it was a poorly performing
commercial forestry plantation of non-native Sitka spruce."
"inappropriately planted in the late
1980s with no thought or consideration given to biodiversity...."
"You can add this to the list of our
achievements, none of which would have been possible without the support of our
community of souvenir plot owners.”
"Using these same trees for something
that puts nature first symbolizes that the world has changed, and we hope our
efforts will inspire others. We'd be delighted if someone beat our record in
the future,"- Wilson said.
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