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["Jim Fruth" <jfruth@tds.net>]

Robert C. Mullins wrote, "Anybody have any 'bee house' designs.  I used to 
work
as an entomology aid (but my focus was beetles)  at a college.  Some of my
buddies were into apiaries, but they were just using single cardboard
tubes for collection purposes."

   Why buy beehouses?  I put a 5/16" bit into my portable drill motor and 
drilled holes in fence posts and lots of other non-structural, permanent 
wood.  The wild bees like it just fine.
   As a curiosity, I drilled some treated timbers (the green ones that 
contain arsenic) and the only insect that uses these holes is the some kind 
of wasp.

Jim Fruth
Brambleberry Farm
Pequot Lakes, MN  56472
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