Carpenter bee house

Hoping to provide refuge and bring more solitary bees, like the native Valley Carpenter Bee, into our yard, the kids and I created homemade carpenter bee houses over the weekend.

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To attract bee polinators to your garden, you can create a pretty DIY Bee House or even a Bee Hotel for the solitairy bee species.

Made by Guatemalan carpenters in the Ixil region. All proceeds from these houses go directly to the Agros Ixil training center to help more natives gain skills. This unique design holds about 150 straws/reeds for mason bees. It has an overhang to keep the straws/reeds drier. the floor slopes outwards as well.

Invite hole-nesting bees to perform their pollinating magic in your garden by creating a welcoming bee house they’ll love.

See how to keep carpenter bees away naturally - and stop them from damaging and ruining your home and wood structures!

It is National Pollinator Week , and I figured a way to commemorate this was to build a mason bee nest box (more on this in a little bit)....

This easy DIY idea on How to build a Carpenter Bee Trap to get rid of those destructive creatures. This trap really does work.

Just like human dwellings, unkempt bee houses can be gross places that play host to viruses, pests, fungi, bacteria and other harmful things. If you want to help keep the bees you’ve invited safe and healthy, here’s what you need to know.