You can provide solitary bees with additional nesting opportunities by making a bee hotel. Many people do not realise honeybees and bumblebees only form 10% of the UK's total bee fauna. Solitary bees ...

In 2015 the Department of Agriculture decided to give €1.6 million to farmers who agreed to leave a tonne of builder’s sand in the corner of a field and attach bee hotels to tree trunks.