Creating and Maintaining Stem Bee Boxes | DIY Native Pollinator Habitat Project

Learn how to build and maintain your own stem bee box, part of our DIY Native Pollinator Habitat Project series. Stem bee boxes will support the native bees in your garden, not to be confused with the common European Honeybee. We’ll show you step by step instructions on how to construct a stem bee box of your own and explain the importance of yearly maintenance to keep your bees happy and healthy. For more information or to plan your visit to our free demonstration garden:
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Another excellent and informative video. Does the lumber need to be somewhat dry before putting it out? There is some pretty wet lumber at the big box stores. If viewers do not have plants in their yard like white sage, various size reeds can be purchased online at sites like Crown Bees.

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My guess would be that while dryer would be better, unless the lumber is very, very wet still, it will not make much of a practical difference. These features will be outdoors, so though we create overhangs to keep the nests a bit on the dry side, the wood will be exposed to the weather. My only reservation would be that occasionally a pallet of wood at the store will be so wet that you can see some fungal growth due to both the moisture and the lack of air circulation when the wood is bound up in the palette. In those cases, I'd look for dryer wood.