Native bee house

Celebrate mason and leafcutter bees with your family by providing bee houses and harvesting their cocoons to keep them safe. We have three styles of bee houses you can make with just a few simple tools and supplies.

By providing food and water in your garden, you can encourage native bees to visit and by making them a bee hotel, you can encourage them to stay. Why is this important? Bee’s are crucial po…

Bee boxes, often called bee “houses” or “hotels,” offer an opportunity to learn about Virginia’s solitary bees while helping pollinators. However, if constructed improperly or neglected after installation, these habitats can actually be harmful to solitary bees.

Invite hole-nesting bees to perform their pollinating magic in your garden by creating a welcoming bee house they’ll love.

Building a bug hotel with your child is one of the best garden activities, because it really doesn’t matter how big or small your space is, you can use anything. We used pine cones that Reuben had collected earlier in the year. bits of old pots, pebbles, big stones, twigs etc Reuben loves going into the garden and checking to see if any bugs have checked in yet. This last week was half term in our area, and I have taken the opportunity to spend some quality time with Reuben – I do miss him…

Bee hotels are incredibly popular, but if you don't maintain them, you may be unwittingly adding to the pollinator decline.

Top left clockwise: Megachile erythropyga, Megachile aurifrons, Megachile erythropyga Words and images by Kit Prendergast (BSc, PhD researcher at Curtin University) Introduction It is no

There are lots of innovative businesses moving towards and developing products to suit a circular economy, and what better time to support these businesses than at Christmas time, when lots of purchasing and gift giving takes place. Here at Biome we are excited to be able to bring you practical gift ideas that have bee

To attract bee polinators to your garden, you can create a pretty DIY Bee House or even a Bee Hotel for the solitairy bee species.

how to make a DIY bee house with bamboo garden stakes