Subject: [NAFEX] Subject: Plastic Straws for Mason Bees
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:39:31 -0600
>When I first got interested in Mason Bees and had ordered some cardboard straws for them, I thought to try plastic tubing. Since I make maple syrup and gather sap with (vinyl) plastic tubing, I decided to try that tubing
since it is 5/16" diameter inside. I stuffed as many as would fit into Campbell's soup cans and fixed them tightly near the cardboard straws. >
Jim, did you cut your tubing the depth of the can or did you make them a little shorter so the can would protect the front of the tubes a little? And how did you attach the can? A screw through the bottom?
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[NAFEX] Subject: Plastic Straws for Mason Bees,
Toni Pralle, 11/28/2007