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pollinaters are working #6551661
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Re: pollinaters are working [Re: taser] #6551710
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Yes took them awhile to get going this year No honeybees just Bumblers and not all that many hope they have a good year


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Re: pollinaters are working [Re: taser] #6572898
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I bought this bee house at a flea market last week. It's supposed to keep pollinator bees in the area where I have fruit & nut trees. $10 it was. Hopefully it helps. [Linked Image]

Re: pollinaters are working [Re: taser] #6572913
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AJE >> WOW! I never heard of that before. Do you know of anyone that uses them, and what success do they have?

Is it just drilled holes in a piece of wood with a roof? Might not be to hard to make a few if they would work.

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Re: pollinaters are working [Re: taser] #6572919
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Here's where I 1st heard about them:
http://www.livingthecountrylife.com/gardening/building-bee-nesting-block/

I do not know anyone that's tried 1.

Re: pollinaters are working [Re: taser] #6572921
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Thanks for that article. Very interesting.


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Re: pollinaters are working [Re: taser] #6573015
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I was cutting rafter tails of 20 year old poultry houses and they have bumblebees bored into them.


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Re: pollinaters are working [Re: taser] #6573023
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Hives of domestic bees around here are having a heyday with the sweet clover.


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Re: pollinaters are working [Re: taser] #6573215
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I see more hives of domestic bees around farm country here than I used to 20 years ago. I think some are Amish's.

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Re: pollinaters are working [Re: taser] #6573330
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The "BEE" House" you picture is for native solitary bees, most likely mason and/or leaf cutters bees. They work but there are better designs and it is important that for mason bees the holes or tubes provided for them be deeper than 6" or you are just putting out a trap for them. Mason bee fill those hollows with a series of mud chambers filled with pollen and an egg. From back to front they make separate chambers for females first. The outside 5 chambers are for males(approx 6") as only one male needs to survive predators/parasites to fertilize all females. If hollow is too shallow they with only produce males bees(not good for reproduction). Studies show that hollows deeper than 14" is about the max for increasing number of female chambers. Mason bees are 5 times more efficient pollinators than Honey bees but only live into mid summer before dying(sadly they don't produce honey). They are very local bees, rarely traveling more than 100yds for hatch site so they can become "extinct" from areas very easy but are also fairly easy to reintroduce if provided a pollen source and nesting sites(natural or manmade).


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Re: pollinaters are working [Re: taser] #6573331
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The "badlands" in SoDak grow sweet clover very well, and there are many bee colonies set up nearby. I believe they are brought up from Texas.


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Interesting Drake. The house I bought says 'for Mason bees' on the label. But it's less than 3.5" deep. Hmmm.

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Originally Posted by Gary Benson
The "badlands" in SoDak grow sweet clover very well, and there are many bee colonies set up nearby. I believe they are brought up from Texas.

Not from there but the Dakota's & Montana have many local bee operations. If I'm not mistaken Dakota North produces more honey then any other state. Not saying some don't come from texas but just saying.
https://www.agweb.com/article/north-dakota-produces-most-honey-in-nation/

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Seems everybody is jumping into the "Bee House" business but keep in mind all the "bird" houses ones see on the market. Some are well designed homes to aid birds in their nesting based on science and study. Other are not only just decorations but death traps to birds that do nest in them. I have raised mason bees for a few years now for my hobby orchard as local and wild honey bees are in drastic decline. Much less work than honey bees and FREE. You can make a very good house from scrap wood and reeds. But the many species of native bees are suffering from declining habitat and insecticides. There is a second "silent spring" building from the use of neonicotinoids will shadow DDT. I'm not anti- AG but we need to make sure our practices are sustainable and not just profitable.

I collect, like many others, my mason bee cocoons in the fall from my houses and store them protected till spring to let them hatch when the orchard blooms.


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Re: pollinaters are working [Re: taser] #6574000
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I guess I will have to look into modifying my new bee house. I don't want to create a trap.

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Drake, how do you store them, like you mentioned? Inside or another way?


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Re: pollinaters are working [Re: taser] #6574222
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Most bee keepers here are out of FL they run bees here in the summer then run them down South in the winter months, just can't figure why they put them so close to the roads to get creamed by passing cars.

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Anyone have pictures of their bee houses?

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Good write up Drakej.
bumblebees actually prefer to make their nest in meadow vole grass chambers nesting material. What was pictured is a queen in the apple blossom.
Many of the native leaf cutter bees and solitary bees use different medium to make their nest.
All the ones that pollinate my early flowering Nanking cherrys are a ground tunnel nester so they need undisturbed soil from year to year.
I will try to post pics later.
The cereal hype about bees has made some good and some bad news spin, but has helped put research moneys into monitoring the species of bees out there. In Manitoba they have recorded 20+ new species records that were not known before.
Some species even make their chambers in grass stems, so when Big blue stem grass was wiped out when the prairies were opened up, Who knows how many species have been expired

Corrigated cardboard rolled up with the open chamber facing out are the most used SUCESSFULLY, it has to be protected from getting wet, and stored from the winter elements, and let on their own for the bees to emerge in the spring. The larvae are genetically sycronized to emerge last first and first last in the chambers. That way they do not eat each other leaving the chambers.

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One should look at Jim Gibb's video on Dandeloins and Spring honey bees useage.

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