This yr I created a wild solitary bee habitat , which I mentioned I was planning to do inmy birdhouse posta few months ago .
Here ’s my DIY bee home :
A simple bee sign of the zodiac – no vacuum !
Those are chunks of wood and bamboo stuffed into an sure-enough wine box . The roof is an aluminum cookery goat god that had seen good days . Plus Alzheimer ’s is scary .
Mason bees and other sole bee and wasps like to build nests for their babies in Natalie Wood holes .
create a solitary bee house is easy . I just drill a bunch of holes in diverge sizes to give them some ready - made housing . Call it an worm condo … a bee house … an insect hotel or whatever you like . It ’s working !
A simple bee house – no vacancies!
Thus far I ’ve see a brilliant green bee on the theatre , multiple small solitary blackness and whitewasps , and some mason bees .
Why do I want them around ? Pollination and pest ascendance ! They ’re hunt caterpillars and other louse as baby food and they ’re shoot the breeze my fruit and veg and scattering pollen about . We ca n’t always count onhoneybeesanymore , so it ’s time to recruit their cousins .
Here ’s a near - up showing one of the holes they ’ve fill in :
A simple bee house – no vacancies!
Since I took these photos a few days ago , there ’s been a slew more activity … the vacuum are fill up and there ’s always activeness around the bee house .
I ’m impressed – and I ’ll be build plenty more to disperse around the railway yard next yr .
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A simple bee house – no vacancies!
A simple bee house – no vacancies!
