The bug hotels are open.

How to bring insects back to the city

There’s a place beside the canal a few minutes from where I live, just down a slipway off the main road. It’s a busy thoroughfare, and a broken old fence panel has been a convenient place to shove rubbish over the last couple of years since I’ve lived there.

I’m yet to find out whose responsibility it is - the Canal & River Trust, maybe? - but just the o…