Bee Nesting Boxes. Placing our newly designed nesting box or boxes in suitable locations around the garden will provide a greater opportunity for searching bumblebee queens to take up residence in your garden. Bee populations have been dwindling in recent years and building homes is just one way of encouraging them to stick around. Only tube nesting solitary bees will use the kind of bee house i describe here.
Different species have differing nest preferences however the easiest ones to provide for are the surface and above ground nesters. The needs of bumblebees are very different their nests consist of communal wax combs which they construct mostly in holes underground in long tussocky grasses bird boxes under eaves or compost bins.
Hotels for tunnel nesting bees.
An ideal position for your bumble bee nesting box is nestled in amongst some bushes flowers or shrubs. Or we can use. Bumblebees like to nest in warm sheltered sites. Solitary bee houses are not bumblebee nest boxes.
