If you’ve been busy getting your garden winter-ready, gathering fallen leaves and securing sheds, there’s a chance you may have overlooked one of this season’s most important jobs. Creating habitats for overwintering wildlife.

You might leave a pile of twigs and logs at the back of a border for beetles, centipedes, woodlice and spiders to shelter in.

Bird boxes are easy to install but if they’ve been used in the past, don’t forget to give them a clean so they’re more attractive for new populations.

At this time of year, it can be easy to overlook trugs and pots that were left out to harvest rain water in drier months. Ensure there are easy exits routes – as you would with a pond – so that any wildlife that falls in can easily get back out.

But what are you doing for pollinators?

More than 90 percent of bees in the UK solitary, meaning they don’t live in hives but alone and need to make their own nests.

Our guide to building a bug hotel makes it easy to create your own pollinator-friendly bee house. Fill it with hollow stems like old bamboo canes for solitary bees; bundles of twigs for ladybirds; and rolls of corrugated cardboard for lacewings.

Alternatively, we’ve done the hard work for you. Buy your own Bee Friendly Bug Hotel (pictured) from the BFT shop – £35 with FREE p&p.

Each bug hotel comes with a useful guide on where best to position it and how to maintain it, and measures approx: 23cm (w) x 21.5cm (h) x 10cm (d).