How do you increase number of bees?

Answer 1

To get bees to come to your back yard you can do numerous things.

The first thing you must do is add water to your back yard. this can be a fish pond, waterfall, water fountain, and so on. Bees will drink from said water locations as well as clean themselves off. Its reported that bees visit water locations once a day. The more choices the bees have the better chance that they will visit your yard each day. Arguably the best water feature would be a water garden with plenty of water plants. if the bee falls in they will use the plants to escape instead of drowning. As well as the prevention of drowning many of the plants in a water garden will flower making your back yard a destination for plenty of bees. Some plants that are recommended include Lily Pads, Salvinia Minima, Pond Grasses, marsh or bog plants, Cat Tails, and many more. All of these plants are bee friendly. recommended

The second thing you need to do is leave the bees alone. If you, kids, and pets don't bother them they will know your back yard is a safe place to go and will frequent there often. If they feel threatened chances are you wont see them again. Bees will spend several hours tending to your garden and leaving them to their job is very important. allergic

To help attract bees certain plants are recommended such as fruit trees such as apple. Strawberry plants are good as well as Broccoli. Bees love the yellow Broccoli flowers.

I can't stress this enough: DON'T USE PESTICIDES. It will kill your bees and make the entire effort wasted. Use alternatives to chemicals if you want bees to stay.

Last choice, its a drastic one, buy a bee hive... they cost around 400 dollars and up. before doing this make sure there is no one near by that's allergic to bee stings and warn people. First aid for bee stings is also recommended.

That is how to increase the number of bees around your house.