Bumble Bee House Plans Instructions With the utility knife slice off the base and the spout ends of the soda bottle so that only a cylinder is left Remove all labels and wash out the cylinder Sand off sharp ends of the bottle s edges Measure the length of the cylinder Cut off the bamboo to 2 inches less than the length of the cylinder
Glue a piece of screen over the drain hole in the bottom of one terra cotta pot Then attach a piece of hose or tubing to the other terra cotta pot s drain hole to act as a tunnel for bumblebees Put nesting material in the terra cotta pot with the screen then glue the two pots together lip to lip This nest can be buried or half buried in The entrance hole can be from 1 5 2 5 cm in diameter but if you are aiming for B pratorum I would go for a 1 5 cm entrance hole The big stone on the top is just to stop the cover blowing off or being knocked off The little stones should be large enough to allow the bumblebee to crawl under with ease
Bumble Bee House Plans
Bumble Bee House Plans
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Just like the above plan this bee hotel plan can be made by adults and children alike Since you will be cutting into a can instead of a plastic bottle make sure to supervise your children so that they don t accidentally cut themselves in the process 3 Baker Ross Solitary Bee Hotel Image Credit Baker Ross Step 1 Building the Box Bumblebees can be held in a very wide range of nest boxes made out a lot of materials You can keep them in a buried flowerpot or teapot a cardboard box stone box or styrofoam box and many more I will show you how to build just one type of wooden box here
Put a few holes along the pipe s underside so any water getting in can leak away Make a shallow hole that the nest will sit in and a trench for the pipe Wearing gloves curl the edges of the chicken wire downwards to make a platform and place in the hole Lay the pipe along the trench to the top of the platform Managed honey bee colonies in North America have declined to 2 3 million as of 2008 down from nearly 6 million hives in the 1940s The plethora of problems facing the European honey bee emphasizes the importance of our native bee communities The European honey bee is after all only 1 of an estimated 20 000 species of bee worldwide
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Luke Wonneck Agroforestry Technician at Agroforestry and Woodlot Extension Society AWES demonstrates how to build a bumble bee house For more informatio Https linktr ee the mn homesteadI love my honeybees but native bees are just as and in some ways more important than them Watch for some info on bumbleb
Learn how to build a bumblebee house by watching this video that we created in partnership with the United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resourc Siting your solitary bee nest box To maximise the chances of your solitary bee nest box being occupied careful siting is important Position your nest box in full sunshine so facing south east or south Place the nest box at least 1 metre from the ground You can place your nest box near vegetation but ensure that no vegetation will obscure
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Instructions With the utility knife slice off the base and the spout ends of the soda bottle so that only a cylinder is left Remove all labels and wash out the cylinder Sand off sharp ends of the bottle s edges Measure the length of the cylinder Cut off the bamboo to 2 inches less than the length of the cylinder
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Glue a piece of screen over the drain hole in the bottom of one terra cotta pot Then attach a piece of hose or tubing to the other terra cotta pot s drain hole to act as a tunnel for bumblebees Put nesting material in the terra cotta pot with the screen then glue the two pots together lip to lip This nest can be buried or half buried in
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Bumble Bee House Plans - Into the house The house and pipe length should be covered with a piece of sod so that only the very end of the pipe is exposed Further tips on belowground house placement include Figure 3 A belowground bumblebee house before top picture and after bottom picture being buried by sod Photo credit Mark Wonneck
