DIY Mason Bee House From a Thrift Find
Our bee population is quickly fading thanks to pesticides and GMO crops. Help keep these important animals thriving with a mason bee house you can make from a simple wooden cubby box.
You'll need a wooden frame for your bee house - it can be a cubby like this one, a birdhouse with the front taken off, even a simple wooden box.
Mason (or solitary) bees do not produce honey or live in hives. They nest in hollow tubes and small areas of stacked twigs. Creating your own will encourage these bees to visit your garden, populate and pollinate your garden.
Make nesting tubes from bamboo, hollow reed grass or paper. I cut parcel paper into strips and rolled them around a dowel in a couple of different diameters - one bigger (1/4") and one small (1/8").
Stack cardboard into some of the cubbies and twigs into the other.
Hang it in a sunny spot on a fence or wall at eye level. And watch the bees as they create their own nests.
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Heather I'm sitting in my livingroom on a crappy rainy day making a bee house. Wish me luck and I'll post the finished project!
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@Trixie63 Can't wait to see it!!!
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Beautiful and creative I love your resourcefulness. I'm sure the bees do too❣️
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