If a hotel is well made it can house many generations of bees, becoming a long term home for some from the time they are eggs. How to make a bee hotel To make a bee hotel, you will need the ...

Bees make up the largest portion of pollinator species in North America and are important to the pollination of food crops as ...

Sometimes a bee hotel doesn't offer much in the way of dignity for the bees, but it does provide a useful place for bees to reproduce. echoe69 [CC BY-ND 2.0]/Flickr After you've built the hotel ...

Repurpose another garden staple. A hummingbird feeder with plain water in it is an option for a good bee waterer. Since bees detect water by smell, you should sprinkle in a few grains of salt or a ...

Cooper said after a worker bee returns to its colony, it passes nectar to a house bee — a younger bee aged between 12 and 17 days old. "House bees take the nectar inside the colony and pack it ...

In fact, only about 10% of bees are social, and most types don’t make honey. Most bees lead solitary lives, digging nests in the ground or finding abandoned beetle burrows in dead wood to call home.

Foxglove You can grow many different foxgloves easily from seed and once planted, they will self-seed around shady parts of your garden, ensuring a steady supply of pollen and nectar for bees in early ...