When do bees hatch in the insect hotel?

time

Most Bees species fly out in spring. Before that, they live as larvae in the Insect hotel.(€ 11.33 at Amazon *) Few species of bees produce two generations a year if the conditions are optimal.

Different types

The red mason bee and the fur bee are the first bees you will see. They pollinate the early flowering trees as early as the beginning of March. A few months later, the honey bees also appear.

Signs

You can tell that the brood has left your insect hotel by the broken one Nest locks. These usually consist of clay or similar material. However, this feature can also be misleading. Sometimes nest robbers break like Wasps the shelter to deposit their own brood in the tube. Their offspring later feed on the hatched larvae.

Clean insect hotel

Likewise, the locked nests cannot be relied on if you want to check whether the wild bees have hatched at all. The brood of numerous species stays in the insect hotel for months. Even after six months there may still be living larvae behind closed holes. For this reason, you should take the nest locks with you

cleaning Do not break into your insect hotel.

Tips and Tricks

There are a few useful ways to tell if the brood is still alive behind the seal:

1. Put your insect hotel in an opaque cardboard box in the spring.
2. Drill a tiny hole.
3. If there is really still brood behind the locks, the hatched bees fly to the light source.
4. This will prevent new bees from breeding in the hotel.
5. Holes that are still closed in autumn are very likely not to contain fresh brood.