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DIY - How To Make A Solitary Bee House
Blog post featured on Twinkl in its article "Why Are Bees So Important?"
Since you're reading this post, the chances are that you are already familiar with the concept of solitary bee houses and hotels. Solitary bees are important pollinators and a gardener's friend, and providing nesting habitat is a great way to help declining native bee populations - especially in the human environment.
We understand getting started can be a bit daunting! Countless gardening and home goods stores sell
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Feb 24th 2021
Bee Informed: Protect Bees from Disease, Master Melittologist Program, Bee Identification
1. Biodiversity protects bee communities from disease
The University of Michigan - A new analysis of thousands of native and nonnative Michigan bees shows that the most diverse bee communities have the lowest levels of three common viral pathogens.
"This result is exciting because it suggests that promoting diverse bee communities may be a win-win strategy to simultaneously reduce viral infections in managed honeybee colonies while helping to maintain native bee biodiversity," s
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Feb 23rd 2021
Our Newest Air Bee N' Bee Listing: Cabin Fever
Super (Pollinator) Host
468 guests - 78 bedrooms - 78 beds - 0 baths
Entire home: Guests will have the Bee Cabin to themselves.
Enhanced Clean: Optional enhanced cleaning process with Clean Bee available.
Self-check-in: Check-in with easy access, dual cocoon hatcheries.
House rules: The Super (Pollinator) Host doesn't allow bamboo nesting materials or Houdini Flies.About this space
The Bee Cabin is a private bee house nestled in your yard or garden. Offeri
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Feb 23rd 2021
5 Urban Habitats In Which Solitary Bees Thrive
We often think of urban areas as concrete jungles devoid of nature. Still, appropriately managed urban regions can enhance the conservation of bees and act as hotspots for the pollination services that bees provide to flowers and urban gardens.
Incorporating native flowers and plants in urban areas is a super-easy way to make cities feel alive and vibrant and provide the critical habitat necessary to support a diversity of pollinators. Once there is a sufficient supply of pollen and ne
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Jan 28th 2021
Bee Informed: Bee Diversity Decline, Value of Wild Bees, and Benefits of Sweat Bees
Each month our Bee Informed Blog highlights current news, science, and research related to solitary bee conservation, food insecurity, and sustainability.1. We haven't seen a quarter of known bee species since the 1990s
This article published by National Geographic highlights the findings of a study published in the journal One Earth which reveals that in recent decades, the number of bee species reported in the wild has declined globally - roughly a 25% reduction of spotted species betwe
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Jan 26th 2021