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  • From: "Jim Fruth" <jfruth@tds.net>
  • To: "NAFEX" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [NAFEX] Creating Homes for Wild Bees
  • Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 08:02:14 -0500

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
For jams, jellies & syrups:
www.bberryfarm.com
(877)265-6856 [Store]
(218)831-7018 [My Cell]




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