“I can’t fly to Africa to save a giraffe today, but I can build a bee box,” Levea said. Zoo staff and adult volunteers made the wooden boxes while the kids cut paper straws to pack inside.

"That is so wild," he says. "You don't see that too often." Thomson first discovered beekeeping when building bee boxes with his students at Amy Biehl High School, where he teaches science and math.

In the current issue of the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan newsletter, Dr Úna FitzPatrick, Senior Ecologist with the Waterford-based National Biodiversity Data Centre, advises those with a bee hotel ...

Build a bee hotel. A bee hotel is a place you create for native bees — particularly mason bees and leafcutter bees — to make a nest. "The thing about a mason bee home is that it gets people to ...