Bee Home Guides
Which Native Bees Will Move Into Your Bee Hotel?
When many people talk about the bees that live in bee hotels, they bring up the ones that are commonly used in agriculture: the genera Osmia and Megachile. (More commonly, but somewhat inaccurately, called Mason and Leafcutter bees.) The reality,...
Our guide covers all the basics about what to expect from our bee homes, information on solitary bees, and how to maintain the homes over time.
How and Where to Install a Solitary Bee House
Setting up your wild bee home is easy, though there are some things that can help increase your odds of successfully attracting bees to live inside. This guide covers how and where to set up your bee home with either our standard mount or garden stand.
What To Do When Your Bee Blocks Fill Up (And How to Make a Simple Release Box)
Here we provide a guide to what to do with your bee blocks once they have filled up, and how to create a basic release box to place them in for safe keeping.
How to Protect Your Bee Hotel from Parasites
Unless carefully designed, bee hotels can allow parasites to spread between nests. In this post, we cover some of the key considerations to look out for, along with a simple DIY approach to make your own.
How to Keep Earwigs, Ants and Spiders Out of Your Bee Hotel
This guide provides an overview of how you can protect your bee home from earwigs and other crawling insects.
How to Open a Bee Viewing Block for Cleaning
This guide will walk you through how to open up one of our bee viewing blocks so that you can clean it out, or to evict any unwanted critters that may have gotten in.