Wildlife Project: Build a Bee Hotel

Give nature a helping hand with this simple homemade bee hotel. An ideal shelter and nesting site for solitary pollinating bee species. Originally published in Practical Sustainability by Dick and James Strawbridge

Ideally, you should put your bee hotel up in early spring, before the bees are active. You could see your new residents occupy their new holey home within two or three weeks.

Find more sustainable tips and ideas in Dick and James’s Practical Sustainability book.

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What you will need:
• Saw
• Drill with various size bits
• Hammer
• Wood offcuts and a fairly thick log
• Bracket, nails, screws

Step 1.

Use a at piece of wood for the base. Cut a log to size to t the base.

Step 2.

Drill a range of holes in one end of the log using drill bits of various sizes. Drill at a slight upward angle so that rain can’t drip in.

Step 3.

Add a bracket to the base and screw the base to the log. Make a roof with some spare wood.

Step 4.

Attach the B&B to a south-facing wall or fence, near bee-attracting plants, and wait for the bees to move in.

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