S26S-113 Building a Bug Hotel for your Garden
Stillwater | Registration opens 1/6/2026 12:00 AM CST
In this class, we are going to create an insect hotel, out of yard waste and recycled lumber. A lot of our beneficial insects overwinter or lay eggs that come out in spring. These insects, like solitary bees, ladybugs and green lacewings need a place to lay their eggs or sleep for winter. We want to keep these beneficial insects close to our garden so they make it their home!
- Materials: Students will purchase their own materials (this allows those who have some or all to not have to re-purchase); list of needed items will be provided online prior to enrollment beginning.
Sara Wallace
Sara Wallace is a gardener with degrees in horticulture and plant pathology. She works as a Plant Diagnostician helping people with their plant problems. Twenty-some years ago, she was a paramedic in her home state of Virginia. Her grandmother gave her a Park Seed catalog and encouraged her to grow plants, so she started with an herb garden outside the kitchen. She read library books, practiced on many plants and started a Community Supported Agriculture organization. When she moved to Tulsa, she bought fruit plants at the Tulsa Farmers Market and was encouraged to attend the Horticulture Industries Show, where she learned that all the “plant stuff” she was practicing had a name: Horticulture. She went back to school starting at Tulsa Community College, eventually moving to OSU to complete her horticulture degree. She teaches the plant disease portion of the Master Gardener training across the state and has berries and 40 fruit trees in her backyard in Stillwater.