A WILMSLOW school is helping a nearby hotel provide accommodation for it bugs.

Lindow Primary School reception class is helping the 270 acre Mottram Hall launch its new mini insect hotels, as part of a programme of projects planned to give back to Mother Nature in 2016.

The bug hotels are designed specifically to help the growth of insects and wildlife in the grounds of the four-star hotel.

Made entirely from recycled materials, including wood from routine woodland management operations, the insect hotels - also known as ‘wildlife stacks’ provide the right habitat to help declining insect populations to thrive and increase.

Lindow teacher Rachel Pengelly said: “The children at Lindow have ‘Welly Wednesday’ every week whereby we take our learning outside into the surrounding environment.

"Our experience at Mottram has enhanced the children’s appreciation of the local environment and they have gained an understanding of how to care and provide suitable shelter for bugs and wild animals.”

Now open for ‘bug business’ the newly built insect hotels replicate natural features sought by wildlife, such as ladybirds, and also provide refuges for frogs, toads and hedgehogs.

Mottram's Nicole Regan, who organised the school trip said: “As a responsible business it only seems right that we provide a home for nature and by providing the right habitats, we can greatly increase the number of beneficial insects and wildlife in our gardens.”

"The first of the bug hotels named “Moth-ram hall” was built last month at the beginning of the initiative, but with the help of Lindow Primary School, a further five have now been constructed, from The ‘Mud-land’ (The Midland), to ‘Bee-lton woods’ (Belton Woods) all puns on other hotel.

The hotel is hoping to establish a nature trail for visitors to the hotel.