The Big Bee Hotel Experiment 2026!

The Big Bee Hotel Experiment is back for it's third year!

Did you know that we have approximately 270 species of bee in the UK and 250 of those are solitary? Most of UK's bees are solitary and do not live in colonies like bumblebees or honeybees. They are very important pollinators, but tend not to be as well-known about as their social relatives.

Cavity-nesting solitary bees nest in hollow stems/tubes which can be mimicked by bee hotels. We want to investigate what solitary bees favour in bee hotels and how to make them optimal for as many different bee species as possible. Finding this out will help us conserve pollinators in our gardens across the UK and help protect them against threats such as climate change.

Join Prof. Dave Goulson and Issy Sexton for a talk running through the results so far of TBBHE and what our plans are in 2026 (as they are a little different from other years) - the what, the why and the how!?

This is an online webinar. If you cannot make the day of event, please still book a ticket and the recording will be sent to you.
Any queries, please contact buzzclub@sussex.ac.uk