Today (May 20th) marks world Bee day – and IKEA have launched an innovative project to make it easy for anyone to design a beautiful home for a species which under threat globally.
As we know, these buzzy friends are are a crucial for life on earth – with a third of our average diets depends on the pollination of Bee’s – so they’re kind of a big deal!
So, to help combat the effects we are having on them through housing development, habitat destruction, and pollution – IKEA’s innovation hub ‘SPACE10‘ has teamed up with Bakken & Bæck and designer Tanita Klein to create an open source bee home project.
Anyone can create their own bee home in just a few minutes. Just select size, style and features like a rooftop, balcony or garden — once finished, you can download your personalised design files with instructions on how to build your creation.
90% of all bees are solitary bees, and as the name suggests, they live alone and not in colonies. known to be great pollinators, this bee could provide by itself as much pollination as 120 honeybees. these bees don’t live in complex hives, instead, all they need is small holes to store pollen and lay eggs and protection from weather and moisture.
You can use most types of dried hardwood can be used like oak, larch, cedar or mahogany. Once assembled, place your new creation facing the morning sun, and plant some lovely flowers in your local area to help the native bees thrive.
Find out more about the project and design your own bee homes right here!
