Soap Lake Library teaches young gardeners how to help native bees thrive
Soap Lake Librarian Evynn Olson shows off a completed bee hotel, which will serve as a home for solitary bees. Those bees will help pollinate gardens in the region.
NANCE BESTON/COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD
Three Soap Lake Library attendees build their own bee hotels Saturday. The hotels serve as homes for solitary bees including mason bees, leaf cutter bees and carpenter bees. By giving the bees a place to stay, they will lay eggs and return year after year.
SOAP LAKE — Families visited the Soap Lake Library this week for an Earth Day program that turned tin cans, bamboo stems and paper tubes into “bee hotels” — small, handmade shelters designed to support the region’s solitary native bees.
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