airBug&Bee - insect accommodations

partyBug and businessBee came to town to do their thing and are looking for a cheap and individual place to stay.

so this is airBug&Bee, a modular and customizable habitat for different sizes of insects.

i prepared versions with 60 and 100mm depth and different amounts and positions of attachment triangles to choose from.
if you want to hang it on a wall the versions with the back attachments are suitable, they also work if you’re building rings or spheres by connecting several airBug&Bees by rope or wire.
the version with central attachment triangles are designed to hang free from a branch and can be used to build a mobile style insect stay.
the ones without any attachments are meant to be glued directly to the next shell to build a big variation of patterns and shapes, they also fit for your own attachment designs.

the inlets are supposed to be printed with 1 perimeter and without any top and bottom layers (but you can add a bottom layer if you want to hang it on a wall).
thats where you can create a huge amount of variations in your slicer by using the different infill styles and percentages for various sizes and shapes of holes. even modifiers with different infill density are possible. Honeycomb works great as one of mother natures designs itself, but others should be fine too as long as there are channels going through from top to bottom.

if you want to be a five stars host there is a „all inclusive Bar“ for the 60mm version to provide a little water (anti drown shape inside) or food - be careful, sweet stuff might bring black&yellow bullies to the scene.

printed mine in PETG 0.3 draft at standard settings and had good results, when placed like in the files there is no need of support material. 
I suggest printing everything in bright colors and place the airBug&Bee in a shady place to keep the temperatures low inside.
assembly is quite simple, just push the inlet into the housing and you’re done. Use pieces of rope, wire or glue to connect them in your desired shape.

this whole project was inspired by the work and research SJB4127 did for the Insect Hotel design, sharing some measurements there which percentage of infill leads to what size of honeycombs.

as always I highly appreciate every like, rating or make, same for remixing and sharing.
donations will be forwarded to sea-watch.org