The leaf cutter bees hive is something like a wooden hotel for bees.
Human is not only the one creatures who need a habitation. There’re well-furnished hotels for pets everywhere. They started to appear in a great amount the last few years. People reasoned that bees aren’t worse. Moreover, they’re very useful and make honey despite of the fact that they’re not the members of family like pats in the most cases. In this way, people started to build hotels for bees.
How leaf cutter bees hive looks like?
It looks very differently. Some of them are one tier and multistory; some of them are a like a real houses with many tiers and multistory too. Every «apartment» is differ from another one a lot. Some of holes are small, some of them are big; they have different sizes, structure and form. You can see the pictures of some leaf cutter bees hives calls «wooden bees’ hotels» below.
Of course, the bees’ hotel can’t even compare with a real hotel for people. It’s not that important for bees if the conditions are comfortable or not. The most important in this «building» for bees are holes where they can put off the larvae.
For «hotel» like that is very good, more precisely, perfect to have complete «numbers». For bees that’s not important from what material they are done. The most important when you choose the material is to choose something that won’t be harmful for bees. The most common materials are hollow bamboo or wooden sticks.
How to build the hotel for bees?
- The most important is to prepare a rectangular frame; it’s a foundation for future hotel. To do this, connect four wooden planks. The optimal deep of a frame is approximately 10 cm.
- Then you should choose the hollow rods. It’s desirable to find materials of different diameter from 2 and even to 10 mm. It’s important to keep track of the rods because the walls inside tubes must be smooth not to harm the insects.
- Sticks are trimming for deep of frame. After that, you should just carefully fill by them all free space.
- After all of that, you should choose the place for your hotel for bees. The sunlight should light the constriction the most part of the day. Moreover, it must be the direct sunlight. You also should ensure that the hotel for bees won’t become wet in the rainy days because if it is like that, all the bees will leave the hotel very soon. You should hang or place your hotel on a one meter height. What’s more, that’s a minimum. Don’t forget to get rid of excess vegetation which can block the access to insects in their home.
For what kind of bees these hotels are attractive and why?
The number of bees is reduced sharply in recent years. Pesticides destroy a huge number of these beneficial insects. Moreover, not just pesticides do this dirty work.
The hotels like that attract the bees on the areas. However, the most of the bees who aspire into these hotels are lonely bees, the bees who doesn’t have their own family. They can’t just come to a big unknown family and ask to take them into their hive. It’s like in the cities or even towns: people can’t come to unknown family or even to rivals for a very long time and ask to take them forever. They try to find an apartment or a room where everyone is like them: without a big «family» and trying to make his own one. Bees are social insects, they can’t live in the whole loneliness, so it’s not a good way for them to fins an apartment. They will just die in the loneliness. They should have their hive, their family. In this way, many lonely bees are going to the hotels like that to make their own new family.
What’s the benefits of these bees’ hotels?
By building leaf cutter bees or bees’ hotels, how they are called, you kill two birds with one stone. Firstly, it’s a benefit for you and, secondly, you help our ecology a little bit. As it was told above, the number of bees is reduced sharply in recent years because many other creatures kill bees. Moreover, people often watered their fields with chemicals which are deadly not just for insects which people want to kill but for bees too.
It’s a real ecological help because after any kind of catastrophe, for example, there are lonely bees who try to find a family. They are going to these hotels. It’s a real help for insects if the hotel is built in the right way.
Adding to that, it’s a great benefit for you. Bees are very useful insects. Firstly, they make really great and healthy honey. Moreover, bees are useful not just because of their honey. Anyway, having a bees’ hotel on your green area is a great benefit.
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