Leafcutter Bee House

Leafcutter Bee House

(Complete with Nesting Tray System & Downloadable Information Booklet)

We can all use a little more pollination!!

This unique leafcutter bee house with nesting tray system is designed specifically to provide a home for leafcutter bees. These types of bees do not swarm, are gregarious and safe around children and pets, they are naturally attracted to the holes in wood. The leafcutter bee house provides a habitat that has become harder for them to find in modern gardens today. The leafcutter bee house can be sited at any time of the year. It will also  be used by many other speices of New Zealand native solitary bees.

ENCOURAGING BEE POLLINATION IN YOUR GARDEN AND ON YOUR PROPERTY IS A VERY EFFECTIVE AND NATURAL WAY TO INCREASE BOTH YEILDS AND CROP SIZES.

• We can all use a little more pollination!
• Increase pollination of fruit trees, flower gardens and vegetable gardens.
• Easily removable nesting trays for inspection / education and annual cleaning.
• Encourage our leafcutter bees and native bees.
• Creative Woodcraft leafcutter bee house has been designed to provide suitable habitat for leafcutter bees.

So if you’d like to join us in our quest to encourage our native bees – and see your garden explode with blossoms as a result - please provide a healthy habitat for them by purchasing one of our custom-designed Creative Woodcraft  Bee Houses!

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At Creative Woodcraft we provide a selection of products that will make raising Leafcutter Bees, Native Bees and Bumble Bees fun, easy and economical:

• Starter colonies of Leafcutter Bee Cells/ Cocoons (shipped only October thru to the end of December until supplies run out)
• Bumble Bee Nesting Boxes - You may want to help your flowering fruit trees and gardens by providing a comfy nesting site to Bumble Bees.

Leafcutter Bees and New Zealand Native solitary Bees are great pollinators.

This Handcrafted NZ made bee house nesting tray system is designed to hang from a wall, fence or tree, or be mounted on the top of a post at flower or shrub level, using a wooden post mounting sleeve.

When the bees aren't using it other beneficial insects will use it for overwintering in. Easily removable nesting trays for inspection / education and annual cleaning. At Creative Woodcraft we do not endorse drilled nesting holes in wood as these cannot be cleaned or inspected!

Positioning

Site the box in a visible warm place ideally to catch the morning sun. It is helpful to have soil nearby and food sources such as flowers, fruit trees, etc.

Attach to trees, pergolas, fences etc. in a sheltered position.

Although these bees do not swarm they are gregarious and once the box is used, occupation will increase in the following years. (Increasing Pollination!) of fruit trees, flower gardens and vegetable gardens.

Because of the solid timber construction and insulation value, the bee house will not need to be taken inside in winter.

To learn more about... Attracting and introducing leafcutter bees to your garden

Dimensions

• Height: 15cm
• Width: 35cm
• Depth: 21cm

The exterior of the solitary bee house finished natural linseed oil and roof treated with high quality durable yacht varnish.

Includes: Fixing Screws for secure mounting.