Opinions on a controversial topic: should we be cleaning out our bee hotels?
- Buzz Club
- Apr 8
- 1 min read
This is a question we are looking at in The Big Bee Hotel Experiment! Make sure you are booked onto Dave's free EntoLive webinar (go to events tab, under 'What's New' to book).
Hi
I am very worried that the bee hotels I set up last year, mostly drilled wooden blocks, don’t seem to have bees emerging. Some sealed with mud have tiny holes, maybe exit holes of parasitic flies so guessing there will be no bees alive there
I have just opened a commercial wooden hotel with trays to check it before putting it out, the holes were not sealed up and the cocoons do not look good, I am assuming all dead but saving them just in case
Has anyone else found this?
Does snyone reconisenwhat has happened to these? I am thinking the only way to ensure bees survive is to harvest the cocooons
What do others think….