Bee Hotel

Variety of the insect population has been an issue lately, especially the solitary bee population has been decreasing at an alarming rate. Besides populating your garden with a lot of flowers, creating solitary bee hives will enrich your environment. This project involves the design of a bee hotel and has been a development for over one year.

I have created different versions of the bee hotel. One version with the large holes (8 mm) will attract among others mason bees. I.e. the one the front image. I also created a version with a mixture of different sized holes which will be used by a variety of solitary bees. As can be seen in the pictures I had to protect the hotels with wire netting, as it became a nice dinner for birds ;(

There are both versions for single extruder and a two color version for a dual extruder setup. I used Colorfabb WoodFill and Corkfill to print the bee hotels as this will absorb more moisture (avoid condensation and fungus moulds). The black/yellow version