On Tuesday night, I headed along to The Discovery Circle's Native Bee Workshop. Along with about 50 other people, I learnt all about native bees, and the difference between a native bee and the introduced European honey bee. There are over a thousand species of native bees in Australia - I had no idea! Most of them don't live in hives like the honey bee. Instead, the live in burrows in the ground, or in holes in tree twigs or branches. At the end of the workshop we all got to make a bee hotel to take home attract native bees to our gardens. It was super easy! We took ten pieces of bamboo with holes in one end, made sure the other end was blocked off, grouped them all together and tied them with cable ties!
The other type of bee hotel was made from pieces of paper straws (make sure you use paper, not plastic) packed into a small PVC pipe. Then we taped it at one end with some sand put through the straws to stick to the tape and remove the stickiness, so we don't turn our bee hotels into sticky bee traps!
Mustard and I are super excited to see if we get some native bees coming to our garden... stay tuned for pictures!
Read all about native bees and how to make a bee hotel here.
Check out upcoming workshops by the Discover Circle here!
The other type of bee hotel was made from pieces of paper straws (make sure you use paper, not plastic) packed into a small PVC pipe. Then we taped it at one end with some sand put through the straws to stick to the tape and remove the stickiness, so we don't turn our bee hotels into sticky bee traps!
Mustard and I are super excited to see if we get some native bees coming to our garden... stay tuned for pictures!
Read all about native bees and how to make a bee hotel here.
Check out upcoming workshops by the Discover Circle here!
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