Bumblebee house

Add constructed habitats. Here’s a bumblebee house I picked up from Bumble Boosters, a program at the University of Nebraska to test domicil...

Once you have learned the ropes, you can build your own DIY beehive and get started. Imagine the honey that you will have on hand!

Bumble Bee Nest: Bumble bees are great pollinators for a number of garden crops and flowers. They are docile, fly early in the morning, later at night than honey bees and when the weather is poor (colder and rainy). Early in the spring the overwintering females se…

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Bumblebee nests are as fascinating as they are misunderstood. Here’s what you need to know about them so when you come across one, you’ll know how to handle it.

If you’ve made or purchased a bumble bee box, you are probably wondering where to put it and how to attract tenants. I’ve scanned dozens of documents looking for the secret formula and learned that location is the most important criterion, followed by nesting material. Moisture control runs a close third. Even so, most bumble […]

Bumble Bee Nest: In wanting to keep more than just Honey Bees, and Mason Bees. I found myself wanting to help the Bumble Bees as well. So I used some cheap Terracotta pots I had laying around.

Good pollination will improve both the yield and the quality of crops. The native British Bumblebee, Bombus terrestris Audax, is a far more efficient pollinator than the honey bee, being prepared to fly in cool, windy or damp conditions. They are docile and will only sting if severely aggravated, and are routinely used commercially for the pollination of many fruit and vegetable crops. Our Bumblebee Villa is handmade in the UK from FSC timber, with wooden legs to raise it off the ground…

Build a Bumble Bee Nest.