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Re: bee friends

Bill Loke wrote:
> 
"... Blue or orchard bees have been given excellent rating for
pollination, especially fruit trees..."

Some seed catalogs are offering cedar "Nesting Blocks" for Orchard Mason
bees.   The blocks are  1/2" X 3 1/2" X 8 1/8" with 40 holes drilled on
on a grid at about 3/4" between hole centers.  Does anybody have any
experience, knowledge or opinion as to whether the bees will really use
these things.  

In our area, authorities request that any wild honey bee hives found on
residental property by removed by bee experts because they are now all
assumed to be crossbred with the africanized honey bee.  For that
reason, as well as for the verroa mite problem, foraging wild honeybees
are becoming scarce and like Bill Loke we also want to encourage all
pollinators.

Olin Miller
millero@worldnet.att.net
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