Care of Gerd
16.08.2023
Make your own bee hotel!
Take the opportunity to collect old pine cones, coarse grass, hollow sticks when you are clearing the garden and create a home for bees, bumblebees, ladybugs and other insects. By building nesting sites for pollinators, you increase the biodiversity in your garden.
Bamboo and reed sticks are good, but raspberry or elderberry twigs (about 15 centimeters long) work just as well. Use a nail to hollow out the twigs so that the bees have somewhere to lay their eggs. It is important that the sticks do not become tubes – the bees need to have stops and sections inside the sticks so that the eggs do not fall out.
Bundle them tightly together with coarse grass, pieces of wood with holes in them and pine cones in a suitable jar or box. Hang the insect hotel on a sunny wall outdoors about 1-15 m from the ground. Preferably well protected from rain and wind. Cover the front with chicken wire to protect the hotel guests from birds. Also remember that there should be plenty of flowering plants within a radius of fifty meters from the hotel.
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