A bee hotel is a great way of providing shelter and even breeding spaces for beneficial insects. You want to make sure you are putting the bee hotel in the ideal spot, so getting the position and ...

Bricks, wood, and hollow stems fill up a large, sheltered bee hotel. (Tobias Hampl/Courtesy Pixabay.com) Artificial bee habitats, commonly called “bee hotels,” are a popular form of intervention in ...

A patchwork of bamboo and paper tubes, with diameters no bigger than a nickel, are stacked artfully inside a 4-by-4 wooden frame near the edge of a public hiking trail in Lawrence, Kansas. Expand your ...

BOTHELL, Wash., Nov. 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Bee hotels are used in gardens to provide nesting chambers for mason bees and increase pollination, but many people don't realize these bee hotels require ...

They may not be The Ritz Carlton, The Plaza or even a Holiday Inn, but bee hotels house important guests. Native bees are among the many different welcome and necessary pollinators in landscapes.

Insects like pollinators can benefit from having a bee hotel in your yard. A safe habitat is one of the most important basic needs for insects. Insects like pollinators can really benefit from having ...

Nevada’s first hotel for bees is open and ready for customers. Unlike a bee hive, this structure is for solitary bees, and its real purpose is to educate children. In the tree-covered mountains south ...

Here’s a honey of an idea: a hotel with an apiary, where bees are kept. You’ll learn why bees are important, and you may get to sample their honey or help to keep the bees. U.S. beekeepers lost 30% of ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Stung hard by disease, sometimes deadly pesticides and colony collapse disorder, the country's bee population is only half of what it was 70 years ago. The epidemic reached its peak ...

CHESTERFIELD, Va. (WRIC) — Flood waters earlier this month left many cleanup problems for staff at Pocahontas State Park. The flooding swept away trees, docks and canoes — but it also destroyed 85 ...

Researchers Daphne Myers, left, and Scott Campbell stand in front of the bee hotel in Lawrence, Kansas. A patchwork of bamboo and paper tubes, with diameters no bigger than a nickel, are stacked ...