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[hans brinkmann <hans-brinkmann@t-online.de>]

Hallo Robert,

if I google "insect hotel" I find less photos...
but if you google the German "Insekten hotel" you may find many proposals...

ciao
hans

 

 

mullins@gaelicmysts.com schrieb:

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This is quite cool!  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.

-Robert C. Mullins M.S. IT




  

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From: ARS News Service <NewsService@ars.usda.gov>
Date: April 4, 2008 6:48:07 AM PDT
Subject: Creating Homes for Wild Bees
Reply-To: ARS News Service <NewsService@ars.usda.gov>

STORY LEAD:
Creating Homes that Please America's Wild Bees
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ARS News Service
Agricultural Research Service, USDA
Marcia Wood, (301) 504-1662, marcia.wood@ars.usda.gov
April 4, 2008
--View this report online, plus photos and related stories, at
www.ars.usda.gov/is/pr
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Just like people who are looking for a perfect place to live, some
female bees search for the ideal place to build their nests.

Agricultural Research Service (ARS) entomologist Theresa L.
Pitts-Singer is discovering more about the "nesting cues" that
influence wild bees' house-hunting decisions. It's information that may
help entice more of the hardworking pollinators to take up residence in
new, ready-to-occupy nesting structures that growers and beekeepers
provide.

Some bees like living in snug, dark recesses called "nesting cavities."
These range from deep holes drilled into wooden boards, to bundles of
cardboard tubes or hollow reeds. Growers and beekeepers place bee
housing in orchards and fields where they need the bees to live and
work.

Wild bees augment the work of the European honey bee, currently plagued
by a puzzling problem known as colony collapse disorder.  That's
according to Pitts-Singer, with the ARS Pollinating Insect Biology,
Management and Systematics Research Unit in Logan, Utah.

Scientists already know that female blue orchard bees (Osmia lignaria)
and certain other wild bees prefer to nest in cavities that other
females of their species once occupied. That's problematical because
old nests may be contaminated with disease-causing spores.

To find out what's making old nests alluring, Pitts-Singer is
investigating components from the old homes, including old pollen,
leaves, mud, and a fluid bees apply to cavity walls.

In one test, Pitts-Singer and colleagues used glass tubes to
approximate drilled nesting holes, then collected the now-dry fluid
that bees had left on walls. The scientists are using sophisticated
laboratory instruments to glean some of the first-ever information
about the chemical composition of the fluid.

Perhaps secreted by bees to differentiate one home from another, the
fluid may also add to the overall appeal of a previously occupied
nesting site. If that's the case, Pitts-Singer's investigations might
lead to using synthetic versions of the fluid to make tomorrow's new
nesting structures more inviting.

ARS is the U.S. Department of Agriculture's chief scientific research
agency.

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