I've read that you can drill holes in blocks of wood to provide
homes for them. If fact I read this in the early summer edition of
Organic Gardening Magazine. They had information about all kinds of bees
and how to work with them.
Sincerely,
ox
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On Sat, 19 Oct 1996 MARCIEROSE@aol.com wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> The primary pollinator here on our farm is a big, beautiful, fuzzy bumble
> bee. as we live in the foothills of N. California, I assume it is Bombus
> sonorus (sp) The queens overwinter in the ground and emerge when the weather
> warms. Unfortunately, the holes the choose to hibernate in are often in
> inconvenient places for ground preparation in the Spring.
>
> Does anyone have any way of encouraging bumble bees to nest in out-of-the-way
> places so they can go about their business undisturbed?
>
> Marcie
>