Solitary Bee Hotels.
with Grace Gutierrez
Bee hotels provide suitable nesting sites for solitary cavity-nesting bee species, which make up 30% of the 437 bee species in PA. Learn how you can build and manage a solitary bee hotel with science-based instructions using precut wood, hollow reeds, and drilled wood blocks.
Additional resources
- Making a Solitary Bee Hotel – Penn State
- Making and Managing Wild Bee Hotels – Utah State Extension
- Bee Hotel Design and Placement – NC State Extension
- Wooden Hotel Using Tubes and Drilled Wood (video)
- Using Drilled Wood Blocks (video)
- Why Not Bamboo?
- Some More Common Bees found in Bee Hotels
(To list some: Anthidium manicatum, Anthidium oblongatum (the Anthidiums look similar), Osmia cornifrons, Osmia taurus, Osmia lignaria, Xylocopa virginica, Osmia georgica, Megachile sculpturalis, Megachile rotundata, Megachile pugnata)
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