Why wild bees need help

Wild bees are quietly disappearing.

Fewer wildflowers, tidier gardens, more sealed ground — and almost nowhere left to nest. Across Germany and much of Europe, wild bee populations have been falling for decades. And with them goes something every garden depends on: pollination.

1 in 2 wild bee species in Germany is endangered or in decline
–75% flying insect biomass in German nature reserves in under three decades
3 of 4 leading food crops depend at least partly on animal pollinators

The good news: a single garden can give something back. Wild bees don’t need much — just food, and a safe place to nest.

What the Bee Hotel does for your garden

A home for them. A harvest for you.

  • Nesting space where there is none

    Many wild bees nest in hollow stems and old beetle holes — exactly what tidy modern gardens no longer offer. The hotel’s cedar tunnels in varying diameters give a wide range of species what they’re missing.

  • More fruit, more vegetables, more blooms

    Mason bees and other wild bees are remarkably efficient pollinators of fruit trees, berries and vegetable patches — in orchards, often more effective than honeybees, visit for visit.

  • A garden that comes alive

    Through spring and summer, you’ll watch tunnel after tunnel being plugged with clay. Wild bees are gentle and hardly ever sting — safe to observe up close, also for children.

Getting started

Three steps to a buzzing garden.

  1. Pick a sunny spot

    Ideally facing south or south-east, sheltered from wind and heavy rain.

  2. Put it up your way

    Stand it on a surface, screw it to a wall, or hang it from the built-in steel hook on the back.

  3. Watch the move-in

    From early spring, the first tunnels close with clay — the sign that somebody’s moved in.

One product. One purpose.

We make exactly one thing: a bee hotel from solid, untreated cedar with a copper roof — built to give wild bees a home, season after season.

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