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bee house
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈbiː ˌhaʊs/ us /ˈbiː ˌhaʊs/(also bee hotel, bug hotel, bug house)
a structure containing hollow parts that is designed to encourage bees and other insects to make nests:
We have a bee house that is essentially holes drilled deep into a block of wood.
Bee hotels, made of hollow sticks and designed to encourage nesting by wild bees, are very often built into the schemes.
The children built a bug hotel for all the insects that came to visit the garden.
Collect empty containers from your home to make a bug house.
The kids made their own bee houses for the garden.
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