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Orchard Bee Houses

One caution on setting up any type of bee hive, look at the direction from
the hive to where the pollen source is. You don't want to set up the hive at
one end of your garden and leave them a direct flight path to it or you will
find that you have to walk through their flight path and they may not be too
happy. When we had three hives, we used a screen of bushes that required
that they reach an elevation of 8-10 feet and from there we could actually
watch their flight to an alfalfa field across the road.  You could almost
draw a line on the flight path.

You need them to work and they will find your garden, but by altering their
path you should have a more casual approach and less possibility of a sting.
BTW, there is nothing prettier than to watch a bee rolling in the pollen of
a squash plant.

Rich


>Date:         Tue, 22 Apr 1997 07:17:24 -0400
>Reply-To: Square Foot Gardening <SQFT@UMSLVMA.UMSL.EDU>
>Sender: Square Foot Gardening <SQFT@UMSLVMA.UMSL.EDU>
>From: "T. Office" <Captiva4me@AOL.COM>
>Subject:      Orchard Bee Houses
>Comments: To: OGL@lsv.uky.edu
>To: Multiple recipients of list SQFT <SQFT@UMSLVMA.UMSL.EDU>
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>Dear List Members:
>
>I purchased an "orchard bee house" yesterday and was hoping someone out there
>could help with a few questions.  Last year I seemed to have a problem with
>pollination in my vegetable garden and hope the bee house will help.  The
>questions are:
>
>1.  At what height should I put the house?
>2.  Where should I put the house?  I was thinking about putting it right
>between my HT rose beds and raised bed vegetable area.
>3.  Will yelllow jackets live in these houses?
>
>TIA
>
>Toni
>
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