I'm currently working in our garden over winter to make it more wildlife-friendly, ready for spring.
For ideas, I went to this site, which may be familiar to those of you living in Britain. It has loads of things you can do to help wildlife. In my garden, I'm making wood piles and a small compost heap to attract insects and invertebrates, a small nettle patch in a corner, making a small, shallow pool and making a safe place for birds and mice to feed by putting up some feeders near some thistles, hawthorn and the nettles. I'm also making a small meadow outside my window! Our bottom floor extends slightly further than the top, so a small balcony is there. I can't get to it easily, and it's quite small, but I think it will be an ideal place for insects and small birds. When some of this work is done, I'll post pictures, and let you know what I attract! :D

You must be brave to want to attract insects to your home :blank: . My mother would kill me for doing that :lawl:

Heh, my mum doesn't quite know what I'm doing. I requested a segment of the garden for my own to work on, and she said yes!

good luck, just one suggestion
when you find an insect you attracted, don't show your mom :D
my mom kinda freaked out when i was younger and i should her a slug i dug up :aww: ...or something like that

Considering I keep wasps and hornets and embarking on a major project to attract them next spring, I dont see how a little patch of garden being used to attract inverts is brave LOL. I would specifically look up the type of invert you are wanting to attract and then get its corrisponding host plant.

will you tell us about the insect that you attraceded, I love all bug, with the exepion of bees and horsens, and most of all,jumping spiders, if you can show us a picture of the insect! :wub:

Well, the British weather, as per usual, has not allowed much work to be done, but I'm getting it done soon. I've aquired a Budleia bush, which is amazing for butterflies, and I'm planting some foxgloves around a large woodpile. I hope to get a large spectra of insects, and we've always had a couple of bees, so hopefully I can get a larger concentration frequenting the garden...

And I don't see attracting any insect as particularly brave, it was the idea of my mum going ballistic... I showed her a huge cockroach I found in Ghana, and she refused to come out of her room 'till I had thrown it off the balcony, lol

I would do something, but unfortunately, my mom wouldn't let me, even if I did try. I do try my best to encourage my family NOT TO KILL random insects/other yard animals when they come into or near the house, and usually just strive to let them free, and when people ask me to kill it, I usually don't. I just let the bug be, especially if it was a wasp. It might sting me, are you CRAZY!?!? Besides, I believe ALL animals deserve to live...even if they're spiders or something, in fact, spiders are good, because they eat other garden/house pests...like flies, and can you even imagine what the world would be like without honeybees!?!? No honeybees, means no HONEY!