How to Make Bee Boxes

By Grit Staff
Published on February 5, 2009
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Courtesy Cordon Cyr, MasonBeeHomes.com
A bee home constructed by Gordon Cyr.
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A bee box is a place where bees can find cover and create the next generation. You can make them quite easily, or, if you’d rather, you can buy them.

The Orchard Mason Bee, unlike other types of bees, does not live in a nest or hive; instead, it lives in holes in blocks. Other insects drill holes for themselves, sometimes destroying the wood in the process, but not so with Orchard Mason Bees.  They find holes that already exist and use them.

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