Bee Houses Around the World

Sculpture by Joanne Diver, “Life Bee Inn It”, Arts Rutherglen Sculpture Trail,VIC Australia.

Elsewhere in Bee Condos

Bee Habitat pieces by Greg Corman (blog with pics)
Sculpture for Wildlife Habitat
Solitary Dream Homes Gallery (for Wild Bees)
Insect walls for native bees
Wildbienen (Wild Bee) bee walls, logs and houses
Anna’s bee world: Got Wood?
Solitarybee (Paul, an Englishman in France) has a bee condo made with plastic tubes (youtube channel and blog) “Solitary bee nesting activities”
Hymenopteran Housing Projects on flickr
Bee houses (you tube)
Deluxe Log, Bee Plank (Spring, 2010) amplified habitat sculptures for solitary bees and wasps (RB)
5* Bee Hotel in France from Nico’s wild bees & wasps
Bee Posts, bee house are other bee hotels are featured on The Pollinator Garden blog (Wales).
Nestboxes used by Scott MacIvor in his PHD research throughout Toronto, plus much more at T.O. Bee (Toronto’s Wild Bees).
Peter E. Hallett : Method For Hiving Solitary Bees and Wasps | Three Factors Affecting Annual Yields of Solitary Bees and Wasps | “Do-it-yourself” Field Trials on Factors Affecting the Annual Yields of Solitary Bees and Wasps

Lincoln Best’s Bee Houses

Lincoln Best is a Toronto-based biology graduate student at the Packer Lab at York University (Ontario, Canada). He is surveying native bees of Western Canada in Summer, 2010.

Some of the large ‘houses’ have been set up in the Rouge Valley Park in Toronto and at businesses, farms, ad museums and in the Pollinator Park in Guelph, Ontario; the small ones are being used in urban gardens, parks, for biodiversity surveying, and several research projects. See more at www.canadianbeediversity.org in Summer, 2010.

Rob’s Bumble Bee House

This year with an entrance tube buried underground. Maybe we’ll get a queen! More great stuff on bee houses and pest control at Xerces Society (see also our Resources section for downloadable files & links).