BEE A Hero!

This Spring the Octo Org has decided to do something to give back to mother nature. We are going to install bee hotels! Our aim is to make at least 20! By providing Bees with nesting resources, people can manage some of these species to help conserve their populations in farms and home gardens.

Bee hotels are places for solitary bees to make their nests. These bees live alone, not in hives. They do not make honey. Solitary bees are much less likely to sting than honeybees because they aren’t defending a hive. Solitary bees lay their eggs in small holes. You can tell bees are using your hotel when they make a mud “door” to cover the entrance hole. This means a female bee has laid an egg inside. After the bee hatches, it will eat a supply of pollen until it is ready to break through the mud and fly away.

If you are interested in making one yourself please check out this video at the bottom of the post! Also the bee hotels are made of recyclable materials!