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Give Native Bees a Home!

Solitary native bees are dying at an alarming rate due to habitat loss and pesticide use. Installing a shelter for them is an easy and fun way to help them thrive.

Our shelters are handmade in San Diego with waste wood from guitar manufacturing and from neighbors. We want to help bees, save trees and restore our Mother Earth.

See our worldwide bee shelter owners - Join us!!
Wait, what are solo bees anyway?  Find out here

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How does a shelter work?
Solitary (solo) native bees live alone, rarely sting and lay their eggs in a tunnel nest. With no large hive to defend, the female very rarely stings. Her life is filled with collecting pollen for her nest, and that is when she pollinates making her the best pollinators on the earth, better than bats, butterflies and honey bees. She will fill her tunnel nest with pollen and eggs, then she caps the door and dies.  A year later her young will emerge to repeat the cycle. Native bees are everywhere, so set out a home and invite them in. More bees, more food and more flowers.

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Founder Story
Read my story
It was an unusual path to making bee shelters. Something you can probably relate to if you love nature too. Read about it here

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Join the Bee MapBee Map
Every shelter is numbered & mapped. Be a SoloBeeKeeper and join our international map -  Map here

Build a Bungalow
Monthly DIY Workshop - Postponed for now. Check back.
Hands-on workshop with friends. In our studio.  Register here

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Why the little holes??
Native bees are searching for an abandoned beetle hole or tunnel to lay her eggs. These holes make the perfect nest.

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Products

Shrine - Black Stained Sides- salvaged mahogany guitar wood inserts $119.

Shrine - Salvaged Faded Redwood Sides- salvaged mahogany guitar wood inserts $119.

Shrine - Salvaged painted red wood sides- salvaged mahogany guitar wood inserts. $119.

Book- Zoe the SoloBee $12.99

T-Shirt - White on Black Tee $20.

Bungalow $55.

Villa Shelter - Salvaged grey or white wood frame with mahogany nest block Reg $69. Sale- Two for $99.

"I'm a SoloBeeKeeper" Wood Sign $39.

Book & Bungalow Gift Set $65.

Cocoons inside a tunnel nest

Studio $39.

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Osmia Aglala (Zoe the SoloBee)

Two bees in the nest

Blue Orchard Bee

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 SoloBee Shelters in the Garden - Handmade in San Diego

See all our models here

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SoloBee in the News

State of California Showcases SoloBee's Story 2018

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Solo Bees in Balboa Park
SoloBee Sponsors a Bee Friendly Garden at the Timken Museum in beautiful Balboa Park.
SoloBee joined the Adopt-a-Plot program and installed a bee friendly garden near the Timken Museum. These colorful, drought-tolerant plants provide pesticide-free food and shelter for native bees and other pollinators that provide us with our delicious food.