City Bee  Country Bee

While it is important to before starting to keep honeybees to be aware of local regulations and get in touch with your local beekeeping association there are things you can do right now to support the wild bee population in your neighbourhood. You can find information about how to grow a bee garden here. You can also create a bee hotel. Bee hotels are structures designed to support the native pollinator population in your area and are easy to make and maintain. Mason bees, leafcutter bees, carpenter bee, and carder bees all need habitats in the city. Which bees will depend on where you are in the world. These bees are mostly solitary or communal, living alone or in small temporary groups as opposed to the colony structure honeybees live in. This means they don’t need a hive, but they do need somewhere to live. Most of these species are looking for narrow crevices r in the case of carpenter bees somewhere to burrow. Bee hotels are easy to make out of untreated scrap wood and other materials like bamboo reeds or plastic pipe. They can be elaborate and large or small and simple.