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Wayspot Title: Insektenhotel de Anemoon / Insectenhotel Anemoon 2
Location (lat/lon):
City: Haaksbergen
Country: Netherlands
Additional Information (if any): These 2 portals were removed, I guess because some agent can’t stand that I have access to it from my house. Around town many insecthotels are portals and don’t get removed.
These look very much like insect hotels you can buy in a random store and is therefore not according to wayfarer criteria. So it is unfortunate that only those around you got removed but that doesn’t change that these do no promote exercise, being social or exploration.
And which insecthotel does promote those 3 options?
Making it ‘very much look like’ doesn’t say it is.
I agree that those insecthotels aren’t the best waypoints around, but this makes no sence.
Insect hotels that are one of a kind can meet the exploration criteria. But that is up to reviewers to judge.
But I get ‘looks like ones you can buy from any store’ is not very tangible, but I am just trying to indicate what it looks like to help with how such insecthotels are viewed as.
I love insect hotels, because they are almost always in nice areas that invite exploration and exercise (and many have a bench nearby, which would make an entire route of bee hotels a great route to explore).
Around here (and I’m about 15km away from Haaksbergen) most bee hotels are hand made and donated and installed by the community or government. You can’t just go buy a bee hotel in a garden center and put it up in public space. This is the Netherlands ; you can hardly fart without written permission.
Thanks for the appeal, @PovtoQ We reviewed your appeal and stand by our decision to retire the Wayspots in question.
