Build a ‘hotel’ for bees

Free workshops are on offer from Moorabool Shire Council, with attendees to learn how to make a home for bees from recycled items.

Two workshops will be held in May in Ballan and Trentham, with workshop participants to learn how to make ‘bee hotels’.

The bee hotels are environmentally friendly not just because they support bees and their pollination of plants, but also because they are made from repurposed plastic bottles and plant debris.

There are over 1600 species of bee in Australia, and most of them are solitary – meaning they don’t live in hives but lay their eggs in small gaps in trees, reeds, and the ground.

The bee hotels support these species, as Moorabool’s natural environment gradually recovers from the major storms of June and October 2021.

Native bee species are particularly important to our ecosystem, as they pollinate native plants which can’t be pollinated by introduced bee species.

All ages are welcome to participate in the family-friendly workshops on Saturday 14 May at the Trentham Neighbourhood Centre from 1–3 pm, or at the Ballan Neighbourhood Centre on Sunday 15 May from 1–3 pm.

Participants will be able to take their bee hotels home, with the remainder to be donated to a Habitat Recovery Program.

No bookings are necessary.

To read the full story – Simply click on the following link

 https://issuu.com/themooraboolnews/docs/mn_2022-05-10/5

in the 10 May 2022 edition
OR
pick up a paper around your town.