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Also, I saw photos (somewhere) of structures that used cut sections of Phragmites, a plentiful invasive that grows a lot around New England, and everywhere else I think.

George Gifford
www.HeirloomOrchardist.com

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [NAFEX] Creating Homes for Wild Bees
> From: "Jim Fruth" <jfruth@tds.net>
> Date: Sat, April 05, 2008 9:02 am
> To: "NAFEX" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
>
> 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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