How to make a wild bee house

Making a wild bee house

Bees need tunnels in dry wood to lay their eggs, so don't cut dead trees right down to the ground: the upright wood is better for the bees.

You can provide a manmade home for them as well. This house needs to be put up in the sunniest place you can find at about chest height.

 
1.The basic ingredient is a chunk of wood - make sure it's not treated - with an angled cut on the top. Also shown here are a piece of wood to go on the top, to keep the rain off, and some screw eyes for fixing it to a wall, tree or fence.