A beautifully built stone solitary bee hotel

I love the ingenuity, creativity, design and appreciate the effort some people put into making a solitary bee nest. I came across this one recently when visiting a showpiece garden which itself contained a busy garden centre. The nest site is beautiful and comes very near the top of my list for its aesthetics and elegance. As I examined it in more detail, boy was I in for a shock!

Beautiful! The same could not be said for some of its residents!

Watch the video and see what caused me to be shocked as I moved in closer to film it! Not the best of residents to be using it alongside solitary bees!

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For more information about solitary bees, BWARS

For info and link to buy an excellent book Field Guide to the Bees of Great Britain and Ireland by Steven Falk

A handy and useful resource supports this book by an extraordinary web site feature within Steve Falk’s Flickr web site which furnishes extra photos and other valuable resources to assist with identification.

Interested in Citizen Science and pollinators? (e.g. bees!) The Buzz Club

Solitary Bees book by Ted Benton