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.

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

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Last weekend we set up a table at Arbor Day at our state Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Although it was very chilly and rainy out, there was a good turn out and got to talk to a lot of …

We love all of these bee friendly ideas for the garden. These are great ways to attract more bees to our outdoor living space!

Photos by Megan Halcroft Bees are under threat worldwide. As we urbanise our environments we remove bees’ natural habitat – we create flowerless landscapes when we substitute concrete and lawn for flowering trees and shrubs. And agricultural practices, such as monoculture, remove the variety of floral resources bees need for good health. Add to these the increasing use of pesticides in crop management and domestic landscapes, and the future for bees looks bleak. Mention bees and people…

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…

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.

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

The Mason bee is a common name for species of bees. They are named from their habit of making compartments of mud in their nests, which are made in hollow reeds or holes in wood made by wood-boring insects. For this specific reason, it is very easy to build a house for the Mason bee, they are not too picky [...]