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Build a bee hotel

A bee checking the nesting facilities of an insect-hotel

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Enjoy a hands-on workshop where you'll learn how to make a bee hotel for solitary bees using simple materials in this fun hands-on workshop. Join Matthew and Juliet Middleton from Beezotted to build a bee hotel with compacted earth.

Learn how to make a bee hotel for solitary bees using simple materials in this fun hands-on workshop. Join Matthew and Juliet Middleton from Beezotted to build a bee hotel with compacted earth.

See examples of bee hotels and find out how to make these at home with thin bamboo, hollow vegetation, soft wood, hard wood, sand and clay. Discover the difference between native solitary bees, native stingless bees, and introduced European bees. View up close the inner workings of a stingless beehive.  

All materials supplied to make a compacted earth bee hotel to take home.

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