@MiguelGuerreiro@ecoevo.social
Post #2370778
2026-05-05 07:45 UTC
@Broadfork@mastodon.green can I recommend a different bee hotel for you? I have recently bought a bee hotel that you can disassemble and clean during the winter, so to decrease the parasite and predator load that tend to acumulate on these hotels, and increase the chances of survivability of the new bee generation.
These drilled wood blocks are a bit suboptimal, as there are polen mites that tend to starve the bee larvae and beetles that eat the larvae after a couple of years of use.
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@Broadfork@mastodon.green 2026-05-05 10:42
@MiguelGuerreiro@ecoevo.social Can you provide a link to that evidence please? That would be great to look at. I’ve been following a citizen science project by Prof. Dave Goulson’s Buzz Club here in the UK. It’s collecting useful information on bee hotels. It is in its infancy. Bee hotels do attract mites but as to should you clean out your bed hotel, the jury is still out on it. Their data suggests hotels that weren’t cleaned out have more occupied holes. #Bees #Pollinators https://youtu.be/6c_YhzKD0mo?si=8AHM_AHH7EnCvPWU