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.
Installing a bee house or bee hotel in your garden is an easy way to make your space more attractive to pollinators and support solitary bees, such as yellow-faced bees, mason bees, and leafcutter ...
Families visited the Soap Lake Library this week for an Earth Day program that turned tin cans, bamboo stems and paper tubes into "bee hotels" — small, handmade shelters designed to ...
Your backyard bee hotel might be doing more harm than good. While intended to help native bees, these structures can attract ...
Over 400 native bee species exist in New York, most of which are solitary ground-nesters. Native bees are vital pollinators, especially for certain fruits and vegetables, using a "buzz pollination" ...
Birdhouse-style “bee hotels” are coming to seven New York City public plazas to help at-risk native pollinators thrive — but one expert says they’re not going to fly in the concrete jungle. The city’s ...
Brooklyn’s pedestrian plazas will be quite literally buzzing with activity this spring as the city expands The Pollinator Port Project, a program to offer refuge to local bees and other pollinators.
After a devastating bushfire, efforts to help nature recover typically focus on vertebrates and plants. Yet extreme fires can threaten insects, too. After the Black Summer fires of 2019–20, I embarked ...
A corner of Michigan State University’s campus near the Surplus Store and Recycling Center is the site of new homes for Michigan’s native bees. The Pollinators Club installed its first “bee hotel” ...