honeybees
snakes
squirrels
birds

I have a friend that built a new house for himself and his spouse because one of them ( to be unnamed) was resistant to moving into an older home “because it will be full of insects. It was pointless to assert that as soon as you move a pile of building materials onto a piece of property, the wee critters begin moving in.

Given the propensity for all life to seek opportunities for sustenance, shelter and procreation, would it behoove us, as as those who leave a significant and enduring mark on the natural world, to offer a place within our own creation for our creature brethren?

That is, what might we incorporate into our Home Creations, that offer the other animals of this orb the same things we afford ourselves by our endeavors? Can we offer the possibility of co-habitation? ‘Given that there are numerous species that take advantage of our constructions, but would, understandably, prefer to avoid direct interaction with us, what accommodations might we offer them that would afford us “each in our own” the ability to feel secure in our own space and at the same time the capability of viewing the habits of the other?

I offer the following as an example, the choice of the invited inhabitant being of an unusual caste, for the sake of illustration.

Though we take sensible precautions to avoid the improper entrance of termites into our homes- improper by this defintion to mean the consumption of our shelters as food for themselves- termite play an important role in the global ecosystem. I imagine methods for bringing them within the envelope of our homes in a manner that affords us the ability to view them- to bring them into the light, as it were, and so expand our interaction and enrich our understanding of much -maligned Isoptera.