Growing a beautiful, healthy garden year after year often requires more than just a savvy green thumb.
Most skilled gardeners agree, one of the best ways to keep any stretch of outdoor vegetation blooming from one season to the next is by consciously protecting the area's naturally helpful surrounding insects.
Helpful little critters, such as bees and ladybugs, innately improve the health of any garden's ecosystem simply by accomplishing all the natural duties gifted to them by Mother Nature.
Instructables user and thoughtful gardener IbniH recently decided to build a new, protective home for his yard's ladybugs — actively encouraging them to stick around his garden indefinitely.
Thankfully, he had a few empty coconut husks lying around — perfectly suited to the task. He wired these husks together and strung them from a tree, creating an adorable little hanging house for his garden's ladybug population.
This crafty upcycler found inspiration in seemingly useless coconut husks.
Now, these little pest-deterring insects have a sweet hanging home — perfect protection from the hot summer sun.
Keep scrolling through our gallery to learn more about how this DIY-er repurposed empty coconut husks into an awesome ladybug oasis.
When Instructables user IbniH recently ended up with a surplus of empty coconut husks, he decided to upcycle them into a fabulous backyard retreat — for his garden's ladybugs.
He threaded a one-foot-long iron wire through half of the coconut's husk.
Then, this crafter looped the wire around, creating a hook from which he'd be able to, eventually, hang his finished project.
Loop secured, this DIY-er then thread his wire through the ladybug house's second coconut husk half.
He then attached a string through his wire hook, and hung his creation from a nearby tree.
Just like that, this Instructables user created a cute new home for all his neighborhood's helpful ladybugs.
This smart builder left a little open crevice in his ladybug house's structure, big enough for these adorable little bugs to easily come and go through at will.
These adorable insects naturally feed on crop-eating aphids, protecting growing plants from harm.
Now, these little garden helpers have a safe place to hang out all day long.
This savvy DIY-er transformed seemingly useless coconut husks into an adorably decorative ladybug house.
What do you think of this little ladybug house? Do you like having ladybugs around your garden? Let us know in the comments.
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