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The BeeGAP Membership

With a BeeGAP membership your receive 75 healthy gentle natured leafcutter bees each year helping BeeGAP raise leafcutter and soli...

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Protecting your BeeHome

It's important to protect your BeeHome from a number of potential scenarios which could have a negative effect on bees or your nes...

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Positioning You BeeHome

Ideally you should look to position your BeeHome somewhere you can sit back, relax and enjoy the activity of the bees once nesting...

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Installing Your Bee Cocoons

Installing cocoons simply means placing cocoons into the BeeHome. When installing your leafcutter bee cocoons in to a BeeHome, st...

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BeeHome Setup Instructions

When your BeeHome arrives it's important to consider a few small points in order to get the most out your bees and BeeHome. ## Wh...

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BeeHome Inhabitants

You will notice when setting up your BeeHome that there are 4 different diameters of nesting tunnels provided. These nesting tunne...

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  1. BeeGAP - Facebook page

    Checkout the BeeGAP Facebook page and keep up to speed with news and updates.

  1. The horrors of mass produced bee houses

    A great article on the horrors of mass produced bee houses and how they can have an effect on bee success.

  1. Native bees - small, solitary and under treat

    They're mostly tiny, boringly black and don't make honey or live in hives. But they have evolved to pollinate our native plants, and they're under threat.

  1. For the love of bees - native bees

    We have 28 species of native bees in New Zealand. Of those 28, 27 are endemic, meaning they occur only in NZ and 1 is indigenous – meaning it also occurs in Australia but arrived here unaided