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“Bug hotel” built at Queen’s Royal Deeside estate

Balmoral CAstle
Balmoral CAstle

A new “bug hotel” has been built at the Queen’s Royal Deeside estate.

Unlike London, Balmoral’s “Bug-ingham Palace” does not have 775 rooms – though will be home to thousands more guests.

Local schoolchildren helped build the nest, using logs, branches and wooden ballets to create plenty of nooks for insects to explore.

It is hoped it will help wildlife thrive on the 50,000 acre estate.

The Balmoral Castle and Estate Facebook team put up a picture of the completed project, which has been praised by the wider community.

The team wrote: “Thanks very much to the boys from local primary schools for helping us build this bug hotel. It will provide a cosy home for a diversity of wildlife for years to come. Good work guys.”

Travis Hawley loved the idea, and said: “That is a really neat idea. That will be fun to watch evolve and see what moves into it.”

Fee Souter added: “Wow. That is a very impressive palace for bugs.”

The insects are not the only wildlife on Balmoral getting the limelight recently.

Balmoral Estate have set up a plush new squirrel cam, and viewers have gone nuts over it.

The Duke of Rothesay has been at the forefront of protecting red squirrels on the estate, even calling for the animal to be made the country’s national mascot.

Charles has also previously confessed he used nuts to entice the squirrels into Birkhall, his private residence at Balmoral, and enjoyed watching them run around the house.

But the admission provoked an outcry from conservationists, who said it was illegal to bring red squirrels into a property or handle them without a licence.

Now the red squirrels seen feeding on Balmoral’s squirrel cam has won a small army of admirers.