LEARN: 2. Getting Started Buying Guide
2.4 What Bees Need
2.4 What Bees Need
Our solitary bees are easy to raise, just add the essentials to your garden or orchard.
- Bee house: protect the nesting holes from wind, rain, and if needed, from birds.
- Nesting holes: each female bee claims a nesting hole of her own.
- Accessories: our solutions increase your success raising bees.
- An Educated Beekeeper: read books written by hole-nesting bee experts and sign up for our BeeMail newsletter.
Your garden, orchard, or farm provides a Bee Friendly Garden with plenty of flowers - a single female bee can visit about 2,000 open blooms a day. Your yard also provides natural nest-building materials like clayey mud for spring mason bees or leaves for summer leafcutter bees.
Each bee is looking for a nesting hole that is the optimal size for them. To ensure bee health, open nesting holes to remove bee cocoons and leave pests and diseases behind.
- Our spring mason bees prefer nesting holes that are 8mm in diameter.
- Our summer leafcutter bees prefer nesting holes that are 6mm in diameter.
- Wild bees and beneficial wasps come in many sizes. Support wild bees with nesting holes that are between 4-10mm in diameter.
Our accessories are designed to boost your success in raising gentle hole-nesting bees. We offer pheromone attractants, protective fine mesh bags, clayey mud, winter storage, and pest trap solutions.
Raising our hole-nesting bees only requires an hour or two of your time per year.
Follow our bee-raising steps, tips for success, and check out our books written by bee experts.
- In a hurry? Sign up for BeeMail for monthly care reminders.