Bee Nesting Box Plans

Solitary bee houses are not bumblebee nest boxes.

Bee nesting box plans. Only tube nesting solitary bees will use the kind of bee house i describe here. Building nesting boxes also known as bee. An untreated wooden plank at least 10 cm wide. The female spends most of her life searching for suitable nesting sites.

All bumblebees die in. Many mason ee house plans feature wider deeper designs allowing for longer tunnels and the deeper the depth of the nest box the better for the bees. It is mid march now and this is the moment here in the netherlands that the bumblebee queens are coming out of hibernation. Use a small piece of sandpaper wrapped around a piece of dowel or a pencil to clean up the edges of the freshly drilled holes.

The needs of bumblebees are very different their nests consist of communal wax combs which they construct mostly in holes underground in long tussocky grasses bird boxes under eaves or compost bins. Build a nest box for bumblebees. Bumblebees like to nest in warm sheltered sites. Tumbleweeds and thyme nesting box plans this is another design of nesting boxes which are built to hang on a wall.

If you can provide a suitable home these bees will come to you. You can easily recognize them because they are the only bumble bees flying out there for the moment. In addition to their role in increasing bee abundance bee hotels can be an educational and fun way to learn about wild bees. Smaller bees such as harebell bees chelostoma sp and masked or yellow faced bees hylaeus spp are also attracted to nest boxes a range of solitary wasps may also use the nest box these will act as a great natural pest control in your garden collecting flies small caterpillars and aphids to provision their nests.

If you would like to give your chickens as much space as possible in their coop hanging their nesting boxes on the wall is the way to go. On this page providing nest sites making a nest box food siting your nest box success and failure nest box predators. Providing bumblebee nest sites. Hotels for tunnel nesting bees.