Best Bee Brothers Bee Blog — About Carpenter Bees

How to attract pollinating bees to your garden? Add one of the Best Bee Brothers' bee lodges to attract solitary bees such as mason bees and carpenter bees to your garden area. The bees will nest in the bee lodge and pollinate your surrounding garden area. This lodge is a great way to lure the bees away from nesting in your home. It is a win-win! You get a beautiful garden and the bees get protection ... what could be better? Carved Bee Lodge If you are looking for a way to give your garden a little extra power this...

Let's face it, carpenter bees are ugly.  Instinctively your thought is to run away from these big flying bugs.  But, carpenter bees are actually very docile bees that rarely sting unless provoked.  These bees also play an important part to our ecosystem.  We need them and we love them for their pollinating abilities.  They travel plant to plant searching for nectar providing pollination for our fruits, vegetables, and flowers.  However, the destruction they cause in their nesting can have many home owners jumping quickly to get rid of them.   Their nests burrow tunnels into the wood, which after multiple years...