The Solitary Bee site - welcome!
My family has a house in the country that was built a long time ago. Like all places where nature is close by, maintenance, repairs and renovations, can create conflicts with animals considering it their habitat. We can also find amazing micro-universes
I am constantly discovering wild animals - bats, salamanders, weasels and birds - that shelter in its nooks and crannies.
Particularly fascinating are the 'solitary bees' (European Red Mason Bees - latin name Osmia Rufa) that have stopped me from replacing the sandy mortar between the bricks. So I decided to do my best to offer them an alternative - artificial habitats which they have now adopted.
Solitary bee Update: May 2010
After having a succesful 2009 where my population rose from 100 bees to 400, I finally started to understand what I needed to do to encourage the nesting of my bees. Have also succeed in:
- Writing new content for my project which is coming soon!
- Developing a statement for "The campaign for Solitary Bees" - it's going to get big!
- and most importantly, sorting out my various 'how to' videos which you can see my channel of solitary bee videos
- We have also got a Facebook page for Solitary bee Fans page in place
Hope that this will inspire you to take up the activity.
Feel free to take a look at my solitary bee blog to follow our progress and on Twitter for the latest mini-news on what I am up to encouraging my solitary bee populations. Thanks for stopping by, Paul.